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The best resource does not exist.

It's not about what you know, but about how you think

Roadmaps are just satisfying your urge to follow a syllabus

Always negotiate the offer you get

Proving your Culture Fit

Premature Abstractions

Tip the scale in your favour during interviews

7 questions that you should ask your interviewer

Traits of a 10x engineer

How PostgreSQL stores data in files, called forks

Pitch a project, never an idea

Read more to design better

A common trait across all good engineers

Who is a true generalist software engineer?

Why LLMs behave the way they do?

You are not hired to "just" ship features

Structure for your system design interviews

How to deal with a not-so-interesting project at work?

There’s no syllabus, explore what excites you

LeetCode made building boring

Imposter syndrome is real and quite common

Have a dream project, not a dream company

Companies may inflate title to retain you

Well written self-review gets a good hike

Senior engineers always find their own work

"How can you not know this?" is the worst thing you can say ⚡

Getting out of tutorial hell is easy ⚡

It is okay to know things at a surface level

How to get better at writing and structuring a large codebase?

Build a blameless culture or join one ⚡

What does extreme ownership really mean?

Be an active listener at work ⚡

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