Jem Young
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Engineering Manager - Web Platform & UI Data Platform @Netflix . Co-host of @FrontendHH 🎙🥃. Instructor on @FrontendMasters . Taller in real life.
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Software Engineers don't realize that 95% of production outages come from code changes.
Twitter has been on a code freeze for almost 3 weeks now which explains how it has stayed up and running with only skeleton crew.
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Do you use semicolons in your JavaScript or are you a monster?
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What's the smallest, most petty programming hill you'll die on?
Mine is commenting regular expressions. I will call this out in EVERY single code review.
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🤫 I'm hiring soon for a Senior Software Engineer 🤫
- GraphQL
- Platform
- Infrastructure
- JavaScript
Pro: you get to work with an amazing team
Con: I'll be your manager and no, you don't get free Netflix
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At Netflix, we understand and embrace this reality which is why we do a code freeze every December to help ensure maximum holiday uptime.
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It's very difficult to become a senior web developer without independent learning outside of work. Not saying you need to go home and code every night but most successful seniors engineers at some point in their career spent their free time coding.
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Don't define yourself by a framework, library, or coding paradigm. The best engineers are problem solvers first and foremost; Frameworks and libraries are simply tools for solving problems.
Aspire to a be great engineer no matter the language.
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If medicine interviewed doctors like engineers:
"Oh so you're a doctor with 20 years experience? Name all 206 bones in the human body."
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Now the minute they start pushing new features or bug fixes, I guarantee Twitter is going to crash.
Not being pessimistic, just stating the realities of modern software engineering.
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When you spend all your time adding features to the UI but don't consider the UX
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Life of an Engineering Manager
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OH S*!# JEM EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE WE NEED YOU
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Being completely honest with you my software engineering friends, being an Engineering Manager is unbelievably exhausting. You rarely get the satisfaction of finishing off a project like you did as a developer and there's a new problem every day.
But I'm still enjoying it.
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@Showvhick
General hubris of software engineers. "My change is so minor that it can't possible cause an outage" is a sentiment I've seen many, many times but having triaged enough incidents I can say that it's almost always a code/configuration change.
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Really proud of the team. We've spent like 30-40 hours refining our interview questions and even dropped two rounds in order to create the best candidate experience.
Interviewing will always kinda suck but we're trying to make it suck a little less.
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Shoutout to all those engineers building out internal tools. It's a thankless job but 100% necessary at scale.
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🚨 I'm hiring a Senior Software Engineer 🚨
⚙️ GraphQL
⚙️Platform
⚙️Infrastructure
⚙️JavaScript
⚙️API development
⚙️DevEx
If you're an experienced engineer looking for a role with tremendous impact and growth opportunities, apply today!
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Web Development is easy I don't understand what everyone complains about.
All you need is a little bit of knowledge in: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, modern frontend frameworks, browser developer tools, accessibility, localization, network transport protocols, web workers, web assembly
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I wish someone had told me that being a Senior Engineer would involve so much reading and writing of docs.
Nothing wrong with it but had I known I would have spent more of my earlier career becoming a better writer.
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If CS students from prestigious program can't pass without studying and engineers with 10+ years experience can't pass without studying, wtf are we interviewing for?
I asked the Google SWE:
👨🏿: Did you know that there is literally a class in Stanford's CS curriculum, that is basically "How to pass Google's Interview?"
👨🏼: Wait... what?! Really?
👨🏿: Yep! They spend the semester practicing. Here's the course details:
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I used to be like "What do managers even do with their time? Emails and docs aren't hard."
What a fool I was. Context switching, ensuring team and partners are aligned, and critical decision making are just a few of the aspects of being a technical leader.
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Ever since my wife got me a whiteboard, I've been so much more productive.
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On the advice of my legal team, family, and my cat, I've decided to release a statement concerning the incident on April 30, 2021.
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-Me coding on a plane: "If I had TWO monitors, I would be so much more productive."
-Me coding at home: "If I had THREE monitors, I would be so much more productive."
-Me coding at work: "If I had FOUR monitors and more LaCroix, I would be so much more productive."
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Coming up on 3 years of being an engineering manager, my honest take is that at the FAANG+ level it's difficult to advance your career only working 9-5
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Hello my name is Jem and I make XXX,XXX dollars a year working at Netflix as a Senior Engineer.
I just spent the past 2 days writing documentation because that's what Senior Engineers actually spend a lot of time doing.
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Just deleted node_modules/ and did a yarn install because my computer was cold and I'd have to get up from the couch to get a blanket. Might be the laziest thing I've ever done.
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I asked the team for some coding work and they found a project that fits my skills.
How am I doing so far?
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The best part about being an engineer at Netflix is that no one knows if I'm working or just watching a movie.
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Today marks my 8th year with
@NetflixEng
I started in 2016 as a UI engineer working on the homepage, evolved into a platform/infrastructure engineer, and now I'm the EM for the Netflix Web Platform and UI Data platform team.
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🚨 My partner team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer 🚨
- Design Systems
- Server-Driven UI
- GraphQL
- JavaScript
DM
@MarvinIsHim
for more info -
P.S. mention my name for a FREE extra round on your technical interview
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Only a matter of time before Microsoft starts selling VSCode as a subscription service
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Remember when your CD collection was the most precious thing you had?
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If you think imposter syndrome goes away when you become a manager, I have some bad news for you...
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🔥🔥 Netflix TV Platform is hiring 🔥🔥
Very similar to my team (Web Platform) except you get to work on TV's! If you love digging into UI frameworks and nerding out about JavaScript, this is the *perfect* role for you.
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Types are not a replacement for code comments
Types are not a replacement for code comments
Types are not a replacement for code comments
Types are not a replacement for code comments
Types are not a replacement for code comments
Types are not a replacement for code comments
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A partner team is hiring mid-level engineers (E4) to write JavaScript and TypeScript for the Netflix TV application. If you've ever wanted to learn how UI gets built for TV's and devices, this is a fantastic opportunity!
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Engineering Management is splitting your brain into a hundred threads that are all working on different problems at the same time
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Life is about the journey because hiking with a toddler means you're not getting too far😄
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Engineers after getting a job at a FAANG company
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Not gonna lie. I've been waiting for this for years. So excited!!
🔥 Optional chaining syntax is coming to JavaScript!
This feature enables readable and concise expression of property accesses with built-in nullish checking.
@MayaLekova
explains:
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Never trust a "senior" engineer who claims their code doesn't need tests.
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Mine is putting myself in situations where I'm forced to learn new technology and/or refine my thinking about a specific topic. I know that I'm bad a making time to learn new things so giving a talk or workshop about a topic essentially forces me to learn it
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Making on talk on why frontend interviewing is terrible. Please send me all the worst job postings you can find
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To celebrate my latest course on
@FrontendMasters
, Introduction to Web Assembly, I'm running a contest.
Not going to tell you what to do but the winner gets a 6-month subscription to Frontend Masters.
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If you're an experienced JS performance engineer, my team will have a role open soon 👀 (dm's open).
Pro: You get to work with me directly
Con: You get to work with me directly
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Stopping work for the night. There is literally infinite work to do as an engineering manager.
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Netflix doesn't have the concept of referral bonuses so if you ever get referred for a job by someone at Netflix, it's simply because they think you'd be awesome to work with 😎.
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My mother in her 60's got her doctorate yesterday. She has and always will be my inspiration for success.
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🚨🚨 First job posting an engineering manager 🚨🚨
Looking for an experienced web platform engineer (NodeJS) to join my team at Netflix! See job description below for WAY more information on the team and role.
(San Francisco/US remote only)
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Growing up, my mother was very strict. Heaven forbid if I stayed out after dark and you'd better believe I never missed a day of school. She knew that for Black young men there is no margin of error or "boys being boys."
Shout out to the strongest, toughest woman I know.
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Dear
@ReactRally
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Please stop making fun of my talk ideas. "How I used React, jQuery, Angular, Redux, Jest, TypeScript, Docker, RabbitMQ, Vue, GraphQL, Ruby, and MongoDB to build a static website" is a perfectly good talk suggestion.
Love,
Jem
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Shopify vs Vercel. Should be an interesting next couple of years for web frameworks.
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async programming, end to end testing, XSS, status codes, web sockets, IndexDB, cookies, local storage, service workers, git, npm, ES modules, linting, API design, NodeJS, browser compatibility, and some UX design for good measure.
Like I said, easy.
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Tip for code newbies. Spend time polishing your resume, networking, and working on your social skills.
It's easier to increase your salary by switching jobs than spending time studying
#javascript
and trying to get arrays.
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I've been using Jira for 7 years and still don't know what I'm doing. AMA.
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My hybrid work strategy for 2021 is going into the office whenever I run out of snacks
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Looking at some random js file.
Think to myself, "This is pretty good code!"
git blame
I wrote it 8 months ago.
Happy Valentines to me.
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End of an era. Ryan was the one who hired me into Netflix and consistently demonstrated what it meant to be an engineering leader of quality. His contributions my personal growth and the company at large are innumerable and he will be missed.
After 8.5 years, I have decided to leave Netflix.
I've had such an amazing time. I'm taking some time off to hangout with my kids and figure out what is next. I'm excited but will also miss all the amazing people at Netflix.
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I'm concerned that as an "adult" in my 30's, I have zero hobbies
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Going through newborn baby stage a second time around let's me appreciate that while someday he'll be big and full of energy, today he's small and sleepy and fits in the palm of my hand and it's the best thing in world.
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Work/life balance is important though. When I was young and single, coding in my free time was more like a hobby than work so it never felt like a chore. I enjoyed pushing the bounds of my skills and seeing what was technically possible.
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Ugh I hate writing rejection emails but I also don't want people to think I ignored their application so the least I can do is provide a response
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tl;dr;
For any career path in software engineering, you have to put in the hours outside of the 9-5
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For all the Software Engineers out there, what level or role are you aiming to be your final position?
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⭐️Engineering Manager Tip⭐️
✍️Keep a running list of your accomplishments AND lessons you've learned.
When it comes to promotions, performance reviews, or compensation adjustments, having a reference document on what you've done makes the conversation go much easier.
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Sent my first unsolicited recruiting email today!
I need a shower now.
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HAHAHA "decoded the HTML"
Developer pro-tip: don't embed SSN's in your source code
Through a multi-step process, an individual took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the SSN of those specific educators.
We notified the Cole County prosecutor and the Highway Patrol’s Digital Forensic Unit will investigate.
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When you hire someone you are literally changing their life and if you hire the right person, they'll change yours. We should absolutely take interviewing seriously.
You're changing the course of someone's life when you interview them. Take it seriously.
cc:
@JemYoung
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Doesn't matter how long how I've been coding. There's always something new to learn about CSS.
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Did I mention those frameworks you memorized change constantly and there's an updated version of JavaScript released every year?
Oh and new browser API's are added almost weekly?
Super easy being in web development.
Super.
Easy.
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Never been more proud to work here.
#BlackLivesMatter
To be silent is to be complicit.
Black lives matter.
We have a platform, and we have a duty to our Black members, employees, creators and talent to speak up.
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As an Engineering Manager who doesn't do much coding in the day to day, I still spend some free time each week staying informed by reading blogs or seeing what's current in web development but I certainly don't spend hours coding as family takes up most of my free time.
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Tip from a manager: have an online presence that describes your work.
It doesn't matter if it's a personal website, LinkedIn, or social media but you have to give a hiring manager something to go off of when we're sorting through hundreds (sometimes thousands) of applicants.
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Being an engineer means the only late-night "You up ;)" texts I get are from Pager Duty
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My wife is so flipping talented. She hand painted the walls and art work to create a jungle themed nursery. The wooden butterflies were painted by my 2 year-old son.
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