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Learning A Codebase - What I Learned After 4+ Years At Meta

Learning A Codebase - What I Learned After 4+ Years At Meta

Learning a massive codebase can be daunting. Depending on the company you’re joining, the codebase might have been developed with 1000s of engineering hours and millions of lines of code. It’s literally impossible for a human to understand the whole codebase within a few years, and forget about
Rahul Pandey Nov 29, 2024
7 Levels Of Engineers Describe Software’s Most Important Skill

7 Levels Of Engineers Describe Software’s Most Important Skill

I asked 7 levels of engineers to share the most important skillset for success for their level. These engineers work at companies like Meta, Pinterest, Instacart, and Slack. Intuitively, we understand that the scope of our work should increase as we climb the career ladder. Here's the approximate
Rahul Pandey Jul 7, 2024
82 Tech Career Acronyms: A Ratchet Guide to Tech Jargon

82 Tech Career Acronyms: A Ratchet Guide to Tech Jargon

I've had a variation of this conversation many times in my career. I'll ping you offline via DM about the perf cycle in the next sprint cycle. Ack Ack is right! Whether you're brand new to tech or a grizzled veteran with decades of
Rahul Pandey Feb 14, 2024
Meta Software Engineer Interview Question Breakdown: Finding Unique Integers

Meta Software Engineer Interview Question Breakdown: Finding Unique Integers

Back when I was at Meta, I interviewed ~100 engineers, specializing with data structures and algorithms (DSA) questions (internally known as the "Ninja Round"). Meta has a pretty rigorous and standardized process for training its interviewers, and I really came to appreciate that as I worked at the
Alex Chiou Sep 20, 2023

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