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The first 3 engineers in the Android team (even before getting acquired by Google) were prodigies when it came to programming. - Brian Swetland: At the tender age of 5, his DIY Timex Sinclair clone (seriously, look it up!) sparked his BASIC passion. Interestingly, he didn’t finish his computer engineering degree because he was too busy already working for multiple companies. - Andy McFadden: From 13 onwards, Apple II's BASIC and assembly became his playground. He is the guy behind the Android’s Dalvik Runtime (the one that executes your compiled Dex code). - Ficus Kirkpatrick started programming at four (I wonder how this is even possible). He says that he has no memory of not having computers or not programming computers. He dropped out of high school for a full-time programming gig and eventually built most of Android's early camera, media drivers, and app-facing APIs. Even after being prodigies, during acquisition, they all feared interviews and used to joke around “If anyone asked what the Big O of anything was, I will say, I’m far too handsome to answer that question”. The moral of the story is that interviewing (especially DSA) is quite a different game from building products and the actual software engineering itself. While they have commonalities but performing better in one won’t necessarily translate to performing better in the other. Ref: Androids book by Chet Haase #coding #programmers #interview #android #hiring #softwaredevelopers

• YouTube is an amazing place with amazing contents, but not all content is the same. As a consumer, it is your responsibility to evaluate what’s right for your goals. • Go for something that helps your career, not something that causes you more stress, confusion and insecurity. • Don’t follow tutorials blindly. Grow your skills by being selective about the content. • If you want to be a strong software engineer, stop bouncing around 10 different stacks. Instead, focus on building, strong foundations on a single stack.

🚨 Calling all Grads! Pinterest released its New Grad Software Engineer role Here's what you need to know: ⚙ Remote work model ⚙ Pay is $118,000-$167,000/year ⚙ Full-time(40hrs/week) So if you recently completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical field. And have 1 year of programming experience in an object-oriented language Then consider applying to Pinterest now! Here's the link 👇 https://lnkd.in/g8TMvVAa You got this! ＿＿ Found this useful? Consider re-sharing 🔁 and following me Mark Benliyan for more content like this! #newgrad #pinterest #coding #softwareengineering

Not everyone celebrated Valentine's day yesterday! Outside of games, #Cisco fired 4000 employees Your favorite auto-correct tool Grammarly let go 230 employees. Instacart laid off 7% workforce in San Francisco. List is huge! Its 35000 people HUGE. 43 companies of total 144 tech companies (that laid off) are gaming studios. 1 in every 3 impacted professionals come from gaming background. How can people like you and me help these professionals? 1) Become a volunteer: If you're a senior professional, you can mentor these professionals, conduct mock interviews, assess their portfolios and give feedbacks on what would work for them and what wouldn't. Ashim Naskar, Vatsal Chintalapati, Hetal Patel, SatisH ReddY GuntakA are the first ones to volunteer. Join by adding your name here: https://lnkd.in/gwPhHen4 2) Join our Discord Community and help professionals who're asking questions related to portfolio building, job seeking, interviews, and broadly their next career step. We have added help roles for programming, Unity, Unreal, DSA, Careers. Pick these roles and only get notified when someone asks questions related to your expertise. 3) Our flagship Full-stack game programming bootcamp worth $11,000. We're giving it out on 100% scholarship for anyone who's willing to transition into game programming or upskill in programming. (Mail: [email protected]) Your role here: Mention someone who always wanted to become a programmer and we'll take care of rest. 4) Your team is hiring? or do you know someone who's hiring actively? Here's a list of 900 professionals who were laid off recently: https://bit.ly/49Ah2vT Do them a favor by sharing this list with your 1st degree connections who're hiring. 5) We added 2098 new game dev jobs on our job board overnight. This is Bhavyam, Manas and Ravina kumari working tirelessly to bring the most relevant game dev jobs at one place. We now have 21892 jobs from all over the world. https://lnkd.in/gerWUkc5 a) we're reaching out to more studios to add more b) we're reaching out to these 900 professionals to create their account on our job board so HRs/ Founders/Hiring managers from these studios can find locate their profiles quickly. Please help us spread this post to as many as possible. Let this reach gaming and non-gaming professionals who got impacted recently. Our small team is trying its best. A repost and visibility in your 1st degree connections might reach someone who's in dire need of these resources. WAGMI 🙌

While Preparing for top giants, here’s how I balanced my preparation for DSA, javascript, react, system design, & behavioral rounds. My 4 years journey in the next 4 seconds → I am from the 2014-18 batch where there were hardly any structured resources, the struggle was real to get the right content For this, I spoke to as many seniors and mentors I could to understand market expectations and trends After jotting some clarity, I divided my time each week depending on my comfort level in each spectrum. For example, initially spent 60% of the time on JS, 30% on DSA, and remaining on system design. Used my weekends for giving mocks to understand strengths and weakness After getting questions right on Leetcode or getting shortlisted in any company I used to appreciate my small wins, with a cup of cold coffee. And finally, when was prepared enough to do hard-level questions on all topics, I moved my problem-solving to company-wise questions I did fail. Got ghosted by companies, and Often felt “Am I doing it all right”, and” Shall I give more time to DSA/JS? Or maybe problem solving is not my cup of tea. But believe me, when everything seemed bleak, I knew I had to push through! My dream wasn’t only about cracking top techs but also mastering and improving my tech skills to survive in any hard time. Result? With my structured learning, consistent efforts, and rejection everything started making sense when I got calls from companies and finally joined Apple! The journey might be hard, but always remember, why you started and nothing can stop you! You can follow me for more tech content Kanishk Anand #techhiring #layoff #Apple #OYO #Linkedintopvoice #hardwork

When CTO's talk about the details mattering in software, #appsec professionals need to stop making excuses for not pushing the quality of the products harder. #SoftwareSecurity is a reflection of #SoftwareQuality.

For a senior software engineer, it is not enough to be excellent at writing code. Coding skills are necessary, but many others are also important. ▶ Verbal communication ▶ Written communication ▶ Analytical skills ▶ Planning ▶ Mentoring ▶ Architecture ▶ Design ▶ User experience ▶ Product vision ▶ Technical writing ..... What did I miss on the list? Probably many. Every senior engineer I know has a unique blend of those characteristics. This mix makes them relevant and desired in the industry.

We announced 100% scholarship on our Full-stack game programming boot camp for professionals who were impacted by layoffs. We received overwhelming response in past 3 days and accepting more application this week. Within a week, we’re planning a kick-off call with all the selected applicants. This call will break people into cohorts for their 6 month long journey with us. Along with our course content, they will have access to our Discord community for 24*7 doubts solving, our #BuildInPublic framework and job assistance with 150 partner studios across the globe. I request you to share this post with someone who really really needs it. Since layoffs have majorly impacted professionals in the West, we saw maximum applications flowing in from Europe and the States. Mention folks in your 1st-degree connection who were impacted by layoffs and are now looking to get back into the game-dev scene. If they’re game programmers or willing to get into programming, the course content of our $11000 boot camp will speed up the job hunt for them. If they’re hunting for any other role, our job board has 21,000 game dev jobs from all parts of the world. This includes remote jobs, hybrid jobs from small studios, and AAA studios. This too, shall pass!

🔍 Software Engineer vs. Programmer: What's the Difference? 🔍 Hey LinkedIn Community! 🌐 The tech industry is filled with various roles and titles, often used interchangeably, yet they hold distinct responsibilities and skill sets. Today, I want to dive into the differences between a Software Engineer and a Programmer. Understanding these distinctions can help you navigate your career path and choose the right role for your skills and interests. Swipe through the carousel to explore the key differences! ➡️ #SoftwareEngineer #Programmer #TechCareers #Development #Programming #Engineering #TechIndustry #CareerGrowth