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Spanning across many domains – data, systems, algorithms, and personal
recent posts
- BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEWING : OBSERVATIONS NOTICED
- SENIOR BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEW PREP : Working with Limited Information and Making Wrong Decisions. And the lessons learned.
- Data Engineering Interview Insights: Key Skills & Challenges
- INTERVIEWING – System Design – What Does an Evaluation Resemble?
- BEHAVIORAL – A Junior Level Story : Server Diff Testing
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Oh My god I’m in my 20’s and I’ll never afford a Single Family Home ( today ) but I can afford a starter-home? And how the heck did everyone else get a head start building up real-estate portfolio and a strong long-term equity basis? NOTE – do not misconstrue any of this as financial…
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This is actually a really valid question! Valid, not only because software engineering jobs can be occasionally stressful, but also because work-life balance is a trait that others select more strongly for before joining an org. Personally, I like to create and to enforce strong boundaries separating work and home. I strive to respect my…
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“You get better at what you practice” ( but only what you practice 😛 ) Behavioral interviewing ( at higher organizational levels ) is harder. Personal learnings have let me identify reasons contributing to their difficulty. Let me share my insights ( from failed and passed behavioral interviews )! What makes them difficult? a. Scenario-specific…
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Hello everyone!!! Today, I wanna go over the different types of database scans & exports I’ve executed – or will be executing – in my current workplace. What makes each rigorous and unique? Why were they developed out in their corresponding order? And can we apply to learnings here to case studies or upcoming scenarios?…
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![PERSONAL – so how should we assess & evaluate engineers? Good question – it’s definitely more than just lines of code [ LOC ].](https://harisrid.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/generate-a-featured-image-for-a-blog-post-about-evaluating.png?w=1024)
Hello everyone !!!! Today, I wanna dive into a technical opinion of mine – reasons why I’m against using LOC [ Lines of Code ] or Number of CLs [ Change Lists] as workplace performance indicators. They’re useful proxies, not exact perfect indicators, of leveling or performance. Let’s go into why. Reason #1 : Good…
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And release features to production with a lot less stress and a lot less agony !!! The animus – why does this matter? Hello everybody!!! Today’s post is motivated by scenarios that I’ve run into three times in my career so far across three different companies – bolstering unit test coverage to meet an enterprise…
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A primer Hi all, I briefly want to talk about a strategy for onboarding junior engineers; writing out unit tests and engaging in code refactors. Usually, I’ll write up JIRA-esque user stories and tasks instructing something along the following : The JIRA-esque testing user story Subject line : [Testing] <Insert_Feature_Name> Bolster unit test coverage metric…
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The Value of Writing – a Primer Hi all! Today, I’m going to delve into another topic – writing!!! Yep, writing!!!! Yep, the subject you ( probably ) badly wanted to avoid back in high school and college. The dreaded dark days when you read classical literature like Moby Dick or All Quiet on the…
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( and please don’t let the fear-mongering of the world migrating to streaming get to you ) Building Automation – a Primer Hi all, I’ve been working hard on a ETL-esque project at Geico to set up the internal plumbing, the infrastructure, and the business workflows to automate and execute the following :Step #1 (…
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A Primer Hi all, I want to briefly talk about my work back at S.W.I.F.T. srcl – the Society for Worldwide International Financial Transfers ; the secure bank-to-bank organization that undergirds and enables large volume, cross-border FoReX ( foreign exchange ) transactions and settlements. It was both my first job out of college and a…
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