Do we use design patterns in the backend excessively in good companies like Phonepe, flipkart, Myntra, Amazon ... Or do we focus on readability of the code vs the performance of the code.

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Do we use design patterns in the backend excessively in good companies like Phonepe, flipkart, Myntra, Amazon ...
Or do we focus on readability of the code vs the performance of the code.

Use of design patterns

Software Developer

Use of design patterns- Grapevine

Having two questions. Preparing for sde2 roles, 3.5 yoe.

1. Do I need to also implement rest apis or jpa or etc, apart from writing code? In case yes, then should I need to pratice spring or springboot here?

2. Should I have to always think solution with some design pattern implementation, or not needed?

Preparation for Machine Coding/LLD

Software Engineer

Why some company ask machine coding round in vanilla js even if they are hiring for react role? I was reading about UI 1 interview experiences in Flipkart.

UI engineer 1 role at flipkart

I work in a small startup, we have 10 people in Frontend Team. 2 SDE-2, rest all SDE-1. 
I joined as Sde-1, when I joined them, we were 4(2 SDE-2 and 2 SDE-1).

At the time of joining, they had a messy codebase, nobody cared about writing good, optimized code etc. 

Whenever I got chance to work on old feature, I used to re-write entire code from scratch, made reusable functions, components and moved common functionalities there, all these made the UI better, platform stable. 
Worked on optimization and performance. These folks never cared about all these things. 

Also started peer reviewing everyone's PRs, explained them various design patterns and made them write re-usable components, optimized, bug-free code and other things.

Now I came to know, all these efforts of my mine never reached my manager to due manipulation by one of the SDE-2. 

My manager likes this guy and allowed him to handle the FE team. 
This guy has shown that he's the one who took all these initiative and he got all these things done by the team. 
He involved the other SDE-2 in this game. 

Fast forward 1 year, I see most of my code has been slightly modified by him, moved to new file and my actual file is deleted. 
He has done this in order to remove my GitHub history. 
I'm now getting frustrated and don't know how to handle this. 

Resigning is not an option and raising with manager won't help as he's slightly biased and won't believe me. 

Any help would be appreciated. 
TIA

Getting overshadowed in tech team

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Is Shreyas Srinivasan now more focused on company politics and bickering rather than focusing on product building?

His largely talks about homepage designs only (like that's the only product management he knows), comes and gives gyaan but never had been able to deliver nos (his current KPIs are all red since 2 months), blames on other teams / external factors rather than owning things up like any half decent leader.

And most funny he and his minions (Neehar etc.) create full mess and then they start taking moral high ground / highlighting that how product is messed up once they pass responsibility to some other team.

No wonders Paytm lags so much behind PhonePe and GPay. When product leaders focus more on politics than getting work done, not sure how will key metrics grow.

Paytm Product Head and Politics

this is the kind of grapevine I'm here for 🍿

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Recently came across this strange charges when you try to return/exchange order to snitch which sells clothing and was featured on shark tank also. They haven't mentioned anywhere properly regarding this hidden cost while you try to return
Did you see such absurd charges for return on any other platform.
Wil

Dark Pattern from Snitch- apparel e- commerce platform

Associate Product Manager

LeetCode is a psyop designed by Big Tech to hire rule-followers who can grind away at pointless tasks

(maybe a clickbait to few people) No I don't work at Amazon I am just 1st year student but I don't know is it me or anyone else also feels this that the UI/ux basically the whole fucking frontend of Amazon is so glitchy and filthy whenever I search something the loading line appears on top like 2000s it feels like using an app made by 3rd year student for project. The design is soo poor never feels like premium app always feels like an app made for illeterates.Now let me tell you what happened there is one offer on dmrc(delhi metro card) that if I pay with Amazon pay I will get cashback even though I never use Amazon pay(gpay rocks) I used it today and after paying their fucking site was loading for more than 2 mins and was showing don't press back button but I pressed back and it showed transaction pending not able to connect to our servers(fucking one of the biggest companies of the world) at same moment I tried recharging using gpay it just took seconds and people will say maybe some traffic issue or server down and all but I tried this in evening also on different card then also failed. Gpay>>phonepe>>Airtel money==Paytm>>>>>>>>>>>amazonpay.

Amazonpay sucks(rant)

I'm a UX designer in an MNC with almost 2 years of experience. I want to work on a mid size / small design team with strong design practices. Does anyone have recommendations for companies I can consider?

I am looking for places where design contributes to product decisions, strategy, rather than simply executing the PRDs.

Companies with a strong design team?

UX/UI Designer

What things and technologies one should know and different aspects of the frontend to become a senior developer. Let's go with the React ecosystem.

What is the difference between a Junior and a Senior Frontend developer?

I could solve general problems from arrays, trees, sorting and all. I would fail miserably when the interview goes in the direction of DP problems. After a point I realised it actually doesn’t matter, you will find enough places where you are valued for your skills. 

Been a person who was on the both sides of the table, more on the side taking interviews. I realised one thing how many of us end up writing those fancy TSP code or backtracking etc day in day out. Almost most of the code we write is in some form a version of CRUD and its a reality.
Someone getting hired in google is not going to be assigned to improve their search algorithm. I know a lot of ppl who joined and left google because they were not getting to work on meaningful stuff. 

I ask real life programming stuff and I try to judge based on that, I want to see given a real scenario how the candidate thinks rather then knowing how good the person is in solving some DP problem.

Some ppl can write real good code without realising that they are actually using the best practices and design patterns and not remembering the patterns name, it sometimes just comes naturally

I suck at DSA, realized its okay.

Which all startups or MNCs have the best design leaders and teams in India?

Best design teams in India??

Product Manager

Which companies have one the most mature and best product, design or engineering cultures in India? Why do you think so? Feel free to even name your own company.

Companies with mature product culture

It would be nice if you could list India and abroad separately

What are some of the companies with great Frontend Engineering teams

I am actively giving interviews these days and one common pattern i see for big tech like MSF or WAlmart or golman, tesco
Even if you soln is fine and completed you might rejected for Coding problems due to
- you solved too quickly 
- you solved but took time and used some debugging 
- You solved but you didn’t knew the other way interviewer have seen
- Fully observation based, code running is must 
- somehow your interviewer is smart then you you’ll be rejected for sure. ( here smart is subjective***)


Pls comment out your experience!!

Pattern in Swe interview@ big tech

I am an early career dev with a few years of experience primarily in the frontend domain. I want to read atleast 2 technical books next year to upskill in general as a software engineer. Please share your recommendations.

Recommend Technical Books

Hello fellow designers, I'm currently looking for a job switch from an MNC to a mid-sized, consumer facing company. 
There are some companies I'd like to know more about in terms of Design team and culture. If someone could provide any insight into the same, it would be great. 
Companies:
Swiggy 
Myntra 
Flipkart
Razorpay
PayU
Meesho
PhonePe
Cultfit

Any leads on job openings would also be helpful!

Design team culture at following companies

Do you feel like your work as a frontend engineer is meaningful and impactful enough towards the product you are building?

I feel like in most companies BE work is treated as more important. Most of your performance bottlenecks and production issues would also be related to Backend and hence those who work on it get more visibility.

I feel as an FE all my work is being limited till the feature is being developed and after that you just move to the next one. Kinda feeling bad about it.

Frontend engineering meaningful?

Me - a full stack dev who finds both of them to be meaningless. Just like my life.

I think something we tend to less appreciate the designs which are simple and to the point like what's app

I have seen lot of other apps like cred, uber, ola etc making it unnecessarily complex & using dark patterns. CRED especially always gets appreciated for innovative/ head turning designs but I feel we need to appreciate lot of simple but well built designs as well

What's App clean and simple UI

Let’s say you are want to build a web application and you have the requirements as well. You have done an analysis on high level system design and requirements. Now when  it comes to setup your project with respective stack, how should one think of organising or structuring the project with the help of principals, design patterns, etc. So that the code is scalable, modular and also make other upcoming developers life easy. 

Not looking for any specific answers but anyway having their experience can share the thought process and decisions they have taken while doing something similar.

How do you decide to implement design pattern and principles in a project?

like ordering food at a discount or free food n number of times? 


Also, do yall put in extra hours/work on weekends in office during peak seasons(christmas, new year)?

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