metadevelopment.io

A place for Software Developers who want to grow! We help you with career, mastery and lifestyle.

[metadevelopment.io @mtdvio]

Hey folks!
Thank you for following this account for some time. Hope it was at least a bit helpful🤞

Follow @mr_mig_en for Software Engineering and Career topics.

This account will be repurposed into a read-only research base ♻️

[Alex Migutsky @mr_mig_en]

I am building a cohort-based course for Software Developers, focusing on 4 practical frameworks:

- Learning 💡
- Practicing ♻️
- Impact accounting 📝
- Managing up ⬆️

What I promise:

[metadevelopment.io @mtdvio]

I plan to make a practical course for Junior and Mid-level software developers on how to start building your career.

If you may be interested, fill out this survey.

If you know someone who may be interested, send them the link!

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[metadevelopment.io @mtdvio]

@denicmarko 16/ Every Programmer Should Know

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[Janahan Sivaraman @janahan888]

I got a 48% raise this year.

I didn't threaten to quit. I didn't get competing offers. Even with inflation at 17%.

Here's how to ask for a raise in your next 1-on-1 (inspired by Louie Bacaj):

[Chris Laffra @laffra]

@thiagoghisi

[Wes Kao 🏛 @wes_kao]

How to manage up:

✅ Bring solutions, not complaints

✅ Make recommendations (and share your thought process)

✅ Give enough context to avoid needless back-and-forth

✅ Be explicit about what you need

✅ Anticipate concerns

✅ Suggest next steps

[metadevelopment.io @mtdvio]

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[Blind @JoinBlind]

A Netflix engineer went through 7 onsites and received 7 offers from Airbnb, Google, Snap, Roblox, Stripe, AtoB, and a quant trading firm.

Offer ranges: $325k - $800k

This is what tech is offering to top senior engineers in the industry.

Detailed prep strategy 👇

[Pruthvi Raj @pruthveeee]

If you want to build a sustainable freelance business, it's important to move away from marketplaces and start building your own online presence and identity.
Here's why🧵

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

Something that old boring process literature talk about (Toyota, The Goal etc) that applies to software engineering 10000000% is that minimizing the size of the feedback loop is much more important for productivity than minimizing idleness

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

The best quitters win.

But how do you know when to quit?

Here's my method to help tackle life's biggest decisions:

[Alvin @JustSomeDev]

When I was a junior software developer, I worked with some managers who weren't very good at their job.

I spent years getting my career back on track.

Save your precious time.

Here are 6 tips on how you can attract better opportunities:

[Nick Breeze (Bluesky: @nickbreeze.genn.cc ) @NickGBreeze]

Land temps of 62°C - frightening killing heat wave. We are doing this, + refusing to stop. Horrific.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

I asked 25 of the smartest investors I know what they consider GOOD and GREAT growth rates by company stage. Here’s what I learned 🧵👇

[Zain Rizvi @ZainRzv]

I’ve interviewed at and gotten offers from Google, Stripe, Facebook, Microsoft, Patreon, and more

Here are the 5 best resources I found that helped me prepare for their Coding, Design, and Behavioral interview gauntlets

🧵

[Louie Bacaj @LBacaj]

The top 10 predictors of successful engineering careers.

I've helped hire 100s of engineers in my 12+ year career. I've managed and steered the careers of multiple engineering teams.

Some of these may surprise you, but I am confident they predict career success in our industry.

[Lucas Ou-Yang @LucasOuYang]

This is why Natalie, my friend & PM partner at Tiktok, and I made a video going over our experiences & learnings in the past year
⭐ WATCH HERE: https://t.co/Xon3Nsm0AT

A summary below:

[Thiago Ghisi @thiagoghisi]

After my article about Behavioral Interviews last week, many folks asked me for examples.

Today, have left that world, I'll be vulnerable and share the essay that landed me three $650k+ job offers at BigTechs last year.

Question: What is the most innovative thing you have done?

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

"What are Staff Engineer archetypes?" @Lethain not only broke down the four most common ones, but visualized the differences with their imaginary calendars.

The four archetypes are:
- The Tech Lead
- The Architect
- The Solver
- The Right Hand

Their "typical" weekly calendars: