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I am interviewing a lot of candidates these days
for forward deployed engineering roles
I am only looking for these 2 signals
in their story:
A] Sharp B] High agency
Yes, the story is mostly done.
Feel bad for the developers in India. They're basically done.
The number of messages/emails I get trying to desperately sell their services. Persistent. Companies with no actual product to offer but the ability to code quickly and cheaply.
No idea why anyone would choose them now.
We could add call centres into that too.
Forward deployed engineer interview questione
Redact PII information from email corpus before the LLM processing
and put it back in the final output
describe the solution in 5 points
Go to the next question
teapawt.net/code_sagar/status/2115…
Senior FDE interview question
An equity research bots accuracy
falls by 50% on asking
“are you sure?”
what are the possible reasons and solutions in 5 points.
from now on the only 2 ways to keep yourself safe from layoffs
1. find consultant friends
2. build software and get 10 users
the Microsoft situation is bad
but these factors remains the cause
wanted to write this on LinkedIn
but writing it here:
SWE is going through massive transformation and there will be consequences
3 things that every SWE must understand:
1. Writing code is an economically unviable.
2. Existing SWE processes like Scrum, Agile etc were designed to support human limitations of writing code. AI has broken that limit.
3. Fable, Astra & Argon is showing the world that most code written by humans is sloppy. Follow the PHP news you’d understand.
It is time to focus on outcome rather than the older process.
At this pace, the only blockers are humans who still hold the processes dear to themselves.
Dont be blocker, else leadership will remove the blockade
wanted to write this on LinkedIn
but writing it here:
SWE is going through massive transformation and there will be consequences
3 things that every SWE must understand:
1. Writing code is an economically unviable.
2. Existing SWE processes like Scrum, Agile etc were designed to support human limitations of writing code. AI has broken that limit.
3. Fable, Astra & Argon is showing the world that most code written by humans is sloppy. Follow the PHP news you’d understand.
It is time to focus on outcome rather than the older process.
At this pace, the only blockers are humans who still hold the processes dear to themselves.
Dont be blocker, else leadership will remove the blockade
Few days back a sr director of tech
at one of my client co
asked my team
to add time spent on per story
in JIRA
Man, you are obsolete
Just don’t make it obvious
Freshers if you are appearing for tech consulting roles
here is what to prepare at a high lvl:
1. CS fundamentals
2. Applied AI
3. Communication- focus on clarity
I have visited and continue to visit tier 1 institutions on campus in 26-27
Good luck.
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