Abhimanyu Shekhawat
@abshekha
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Engineering @Google | Ex: Microsoft | BITS Pilani | Lessons from 8 years in building large scale distributed systems.
Bengaluru, India
Joined October 2015
If you are aiming for Big Tech & can work diligently for 10-15 hrs/week for about 3 months, read this tweet. In this worst market, a mentee was able to 3x his CTC (~ 1 Cr) in India, by following this simple advice. CAUTION: > This is NOT the only way but one of the ways I've
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Since you seem to have 16 seconds to watch this video 8 times, at least spend 5 seconds to name your variables.
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3 years back, I was searching something about the Python GIL on Google. Suddenly the browser displayed the following message: "You are speaking our language" I was invited to solve Google's secret Foobar challenge. I never took it. I was waiting for the perfect preparation
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This was in 2017 when I was sitting for campus placements. Interviewing for Directi, the former parent company of Codechef. Gaurav Sen used to work there & he too came to our college. The company had a reputation of hiring competitive programmers & being heavy DSA based. The
I am genuinely hopeless now. Went to the final round of tech process (after pen paper, oa, initial rounds), and was literally asked in depth of springboot - Difference between controller and restcontroller - Spring security - How bean automates object creation - Caching in
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Kamaal ke admi ho yaar 2 roti ke liye database banane jaate ho.
Not perks. Not prestige. It’s the scale of impact that keeps me going at Google ✨ What drives you to do what you do every day?
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Growing up one of the remarkable lines I heard was, "The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again." The true path to learning something and getting better at it is admitting that I suck at it. There is a real temptation to act
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No matter how intuitive an idea feels, you need to etch it down by intention & repetitions. Otherwise it is just entertainment with a false sense of mastery.
I love 3Blue1Brown. I will rewatch any of those videos infinity times. I don't think I've ever learned/retained anything from one though, and I'm suspicious of people who point to it as a superior learning resource. (Not a knock on 3B1B; truly an amazing achievement).
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Imagine giving an interview & having variable shadowing bug in your code. Don't wish this on your worst enemy.
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One if the most life changing thing I read is that intuition is earned through repetition.
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C is NOT a hard language. Most people just don’t have the patience to learn pointers properly.
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The joy of learning something new, to be a beginner at something. >>>>
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Instagram seems to be running a massive A/B testing. I do like the yellow though.
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Rust is like the cool cousin of C++ who celebrates Halloween.
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Finally, my minor in English studies and major in computer science is being validated. 🥹
The biggest predictor of coding ability is Language Aptitude. Not Math. A study posted in Nature found that numeracy accounts for just 2% of skill variance. Meanwhile, the neural behaviors associated with language accounted for 70% of skill variance.
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My first programming language was Java. C was my second due to college curriculum. I really hated C for like a solid 1 semester. Later, I took my Data Structure Course & opted for C++. It was really popular in the competitive coding ecosystem. Wrote a proposal for my Google
The first programming language I learned was C++, and if I had to pick a language for a beginner, I’d still choose it. It gives you a strong start in data types, memory management, and object-oriented concepts. All the stuff that helps you learn other languages faster.
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Increased load times on the web client. Actually not loading at all.
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