Share your wins or fails of the week (March 4)
Led a meeting successfully, landed a promotion, or earned a certificate from a Taro course? Tell us!
Ghosted by a recruiter, feeling unproductive, or feeling FOMO as the price of Bitcoin skyrockets? Tell us about that too!
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Discussion
(13 comments)- 69 months agoRahul Pandey [OP]Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
Wins:
- Really encouraged by the positive reception to Taro courses and I'm excited to launch a few more! I'm doing a course about onboarding.
- Received a few messages from people who shared they got promoted or an excellent performance rating, which always warms my heart 🥰
Fails:
- I've been dragging my feet on a YouTube video for almost a month now and I really just need to publish it.
- 59 months agoRahul Pandey [OP]Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
Update here: I finally published the YouTube video. But it flopped HARD :( https://youtu.be/w2UGBsQB-fc
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9 months agoTeam Lead (people manager) at MistplayThat sucks to hear - I watched it yesterday and thought it was awesome! It was a fun way to learn from real code examples and see that even future Staff engineers struggle at first
5% growth on subscribers since a week or two ago seems not bad at least!
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9 months agoEx-Google Senior SWE • FE/Mobile -> BE/Distributed/AIgood job sending it out there. gotta love the iterative process!
- 69 months agoSoftware Engineer @ Wikimedia Foundation
Fails:
- fooling myself (again) that I can sleep late but still get up early and then getting up late to miss my personal AM time and jumping into work meetings in an irritable mood
Wins:
- shooting down negative, overly self-defensive thoughts and becoming more open and vulnerable during my 1:1s w/ manager
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9 months agoSWE @ GovtThe fail is my perpetual reasoning, 2am crunchyroll isn't optimal
- 59 months agoEx-Google Senior SWE • FE/Mobile -> BE/Distributed/AI
Wins:
- Feeling the most confident I've felt in awhile in technical phone screens
- Signing up for Taro, meeting other Taro members at the Bay Area Meetup, and helping fellow Tarodactyls out on the forum 🍠
Fails:
- Getting rejected from an initial phone interview even though the interview went well
- No responses from cold applications - I'm looking for referrals to Netflix and other companies if your company is hiring backend engineers.
- Failing a mock system design interview - I'm looking for help here as well.
- 49 months agoTeam Lead (people manager) at Mistplay
Fail:
- I've had it on my mind to invest in Nvida for a while now. Every day that goes by it get's worse.
Win:
- Had a great time meeting awesome folks in person at the Taro meetup in the bay area!
- 19 months agoRahul Pandey [OP]Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
So great to see you at the Bay Area meetup!
- 19 months agoTeam Lead (people manager) at Mistplay
Thanks for the free boba 😃
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9 months agoTaro CommunityFail:
- Two companies not moving forward after first round of interviews
- Meta phone screen went okay, I spent time explaining the solution as the interviewer asked me not to run the code, went overtime. Should have speed up the explaining part. Need more mock coding interview practice.
- Didn’t set my goals for interview prep since I was doing company focused preparation. Need to nail one topic completely to be prepared for any future interviews.
Wins:
- Cleared two phone interviews and onsite coming up soon
- System design mock interview going well
- 39 months agoEx-Google Senior SWE • FE/Mobile -> BE/Distributed/AI
Nice job clearing those interviews! Happy to help with a mock coding interview if you're interested.
- 29 months agoSWE @ Govt
Wins:
- Did a talk at Google Melbourne w/ like 60 ppl-ish
- Bought a sick cardigan at Uniqlo Sydney
- Getting support from that search company for my non profit
Fails:
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What's a gym?
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Sydney trip was a huge fail due to bad timing with many friends/business contacts
