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Ask HN: How to excel in system design interviews with smallscale app experience?

A challenge I'd love the community's input on. Coming from a background of successfully delivering web applications over the last 15 years (mostly small to medium scale), I'm now preparing for interviews where system design plays a crucial role.While I've mastered building efficient small to medium-scale systems, I find myself in uncharted territory when discussing highly distributed...

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Ask HN: Succees in system design interviews without hands-on experience?

"I'm a software engineer/engineering manager with experience building web applications from the last 15 years for small to medium-scale systems (100-100K users).While I've successfully managed these projects, they haven't required complex scalability solutions.I'm currently preparing for interviews and finding system design questions challenging. Despite studying resources like Alex Xu's...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024) on Monday December 02, 2024 @10:36PM (#42302874)
Location: Delhi, India

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, .NET, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16aBuErrGzQ__j8H7UxdqDWfW...

Email: singh [dot] mahesh [at] g mail[dot]com

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024) on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:30AM (#39904529)
Location: India, Delhi NCR, Remote: Yes (timezones:- US, EUR, AUS, INDIA - Provide overlap) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ReactJS, JavaScript, Go, NodeJs, C#, gRPC, Full-stack

Resume:- https://docs.google.com/document/d/16aBuErrGzQ__j8H7UxdqDWfW...

Email: singh{.}[email protected]

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maheshsingh/

Experienced Engineering Manager

Hands-on experience in full-stack development, architecture design and managing teams. Looking for the role which requires getting involved in hands-on development, scaling challenges, technical decision making, leading and heading the team to collaborate between technology, business and people. Open to work on multiple languages and platforms.

Ask HN: How to Deal with Layoff?

Layoff is difficult. I want to know from people who gone through it.- How they deal with it on daily basis and keep their motivation up?- What actions they have taken? What works and what didn't?- Any suggestions?

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023) on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:23AM (#37761510)
Location: Delhi, India

Remote: Yes (Preferred)

Willing to relocate: Depends on location

Technologies: Nodejs, Go, Engineering Management

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16aBuErrGzQ__j8H7UxdqDWfW...

Email: [email protected]

Ask HN: What 60 folks can give career and general life advice for 40 folks

I have come across several advice posts targeted towards younger individuals, and sometimes I find myself thinking, "I wish I had known these things earlier in my life."However, there are certain pieces of advice that are applicable to people of all ages, such as maintaining clean eating habits, engaging in regular exercise, fostering healthy relationships, and building a strong network of...

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Re:India’s caste system limits diversity in science on Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:06AM (#34355599)
Reservation comes in 1950, does India doing great before that?
Re:India’s caste system limits diversity in science on Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:00AM (#34355484)
Throwaway can explain everything

>General category start line is a 0 mark and finish line at 100m mark its BS

Let me explain OBC - around 48% of population SC/ST - around 27% of population General category - around 30% of population That's why Gov is not doing caste census

Entire reservation is only 50% so remaining 50% for general

Ask HN: How to do hands-on practice of system design?

I am looking for a way to get my hands dirty on all those theories of system design.There are lots content to read but I find it hard to gain confidence until I do some hands-on.Please suggest any tips, resources for doing so.I build many small to medium web applications.

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You can try to learn not to do anything. Try to create awareness that how mind is keeping us busy all the time.
Re:Ask HN: How do you take notes when reading a book? on Sunday June 21, 2020 @11:42PM (#23597186)
While reading I tried to come up with lots of questions which I am going to encounter in real life scenario like while reading chapter 5 first para, I come up with question "why replication is needed?" After finishing the chapter, these questions can become an anchor to build up the notes in my own language.

Notes also contains questions so that reviewing the content become better(recalling).

Ask HN: How to improve communication (listening, verbal and writing)

How to improve communication (listening, verbal and writing) when English is not your first language. I live where most of the population are not English speaking. Any actionable advice which I can practice daily which you or your near ones did and helped them.Few thing I considered like joining Toastmasters but nearest club is too far to my place.

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Ask HN: How to improve communication (listening, verbal and writing)

How to improve communication (listening, verbal and writing) when English is not your first language. I live where most of the population are not English speaking.Any actionable advice which I can practice daily which you or your near ones did and helped them.Few thing I considered like joining Toastmasters but nearest club is too far to my place.

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Ask HN: Turning 40. 50+, what would you tell a 40+ you?

Want to know what 50+ would advise to 40 to stay relevant and beat autism and grow further.You can suggest Books, ritual, habit, mindset, skills etcMy little background - I am turning 40 and working as engineering manager in Indian IT company. I also code in python and .NET.

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