Saurabh ✧

If you’re stuck, try this: > Close the laptop > Write your entire idea out by hand > Cross out anything that feels like “extra” What’s left is usually what matters most.

In India, the biggest fear students have in college is not getting placed. And sadly, that fear is being monetized through overpriced “placement guarantee” courses. Most students are thrown into the DSA rat race with no clue about the fundamentals. They just follow some…

just out of curiosity, I wanted to automate accepting LinkedIn requests with n mutuals. that led me down a rabbit hole of: phantombuster, browser-use, playwright, langchain now I’m deep-diving into each one to build it. and they say engineering is boring 😭

so yeah… we made it to @htTweets 🫡 hindustantimes.com/trending/midle…

this is what the grind actually looks like. but you’re just scrolling and complaining about how that girl who got into Google because of “luck”. get out of that bubble and start doing something useful - if not for yourself, then at least for your family.

Seeing so many Candidate Masters at Google who still haven’t been promoted made me realize - it’s never just about how good you are at coding. It’s about communication. It’s about ownership. It’s about driving things end-to-end. It’s about getting sh*t done. Being great at…

the companies list i had while applying: Confluent Atlassian Microsoft LinkedIn Tesco Games24x7 Agoda Headout Meta Spotnana PhonePe Unacademy UiPath Tekion Kotak Zeta Twilio Moveworks Allen Digital Grab Tide Cashfree Razorpay Cred ShareChat Nutanix ServiceNow Walmart Stripe…

my retirement plan is sorted:

Trust me, folks - hitting a 40L base comp as an SDE-2 isn’t some mythical achievement. Here’s what no one tells you and actually works: > Start interviewing as soon as you feel even 50% ready. Don’t wait for the “perfect” time. > You’ll get real exposure to interviews -…

Got a call from Zepto HR Asked my expected base, I said 40 She said max we can give is 38 At this point I had interviews going on, so I was like okay sure Then she said, "You’ll have to come to the office every day, and only if it’s some emergency and you have to go home,…

Here’s how I prepared for DSA, LLD, and HLD: > DSA – LeetCode Premium > LLD – Created a project in ChatGPT Plus to practice LLD problems. > HLD – Watched videos, read blogs, and then simulated the designs myself by exploring all possible combinations using ChatGPT Plus.

While interviewing at several companies, I was particularly eager to crack the interview at Nirvana Insurance. I had all three rounds on the same day, but unfortunately, I messed up in the final concurrency round. I really like their product, and they have a pretty interesting…

This is Simu Liu. He started out working as an accountant at Deloitte, sitting in a cubicle and wondering if this was all life could be. When he was laid off, he decided to chase the dream everyone said was impossible. He took every gig he could find—stuntman, extra, stock…

Stop saying the market is bad. People are still getting offers. You’re not unlucky. You’re lazy.

ONE OF THE COOLEST SCENES EVER. 2010 KIDS KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT.

everyone says “just keep applying, you’ll get something.” but no one talks about: ghosted interviews, 10 rejections in a week, self-doubt eating you alive, and pretending to be fine online. junior dev life isn’t “motivational” - it’s survival.