I sublet a room in my apartment to a guy back in October. Met the guy twice in person, creds were also decent. IIT Delhi’ 19, works at Nielsen (In hindsight, not the best proxy). Two weeks in, evident signs of being petty and childish. H...
I spent a significant part of my software engineering career working at real Money gaming companies in India’s top largest three real money gaming companies and it has millions of users . On the surface, it looked like a dream job — mas...
A man of strength, resilience, he always kept going for the sake of his family. Son of a farmer, turned fauji.
Such boldness, the amount of confidence he had in for himself was just over the ocean.
Served in the Indian army, always mad...
been through the loop twice, once got to team match, once got flat out rejected. every time ppl ask me how to prep for google interview system design questions i tell them the same thing: you’re overengineering it.
i see folks grinding ...
Why DeepSeek's AI innovations are blowing people's minds (and possibly threatening Nvidia's $2T market cap) in simple terms...
First, some context: Right now, training top AI models is INSANELY expensive. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. spend...
I am in an org which is fairly new and people come and go. This means that at times, managers are newer to the org than their reports. So they believe the star ones at face value.
Now, my manager is a relatively chill person and at lea...
A friend asked me this today and what I would do, is the following
If one does decide to g...
I see a lot of questions about distributed databases, and I always point people to the Dynamo paper. Here's my attempt to explain why it's so cool in simple terms.
The Problem: Imagine you're Amazon in 2007. Millions of people ar...