My approach to Big Tech interviews A few friends have asked me how I approached study, interviews and negotiation. This blog outlines the method that worked for me, and I hope it can help others. It is the process I followed to get a Senior role at Tesla and a Staff role at Atlassian, with competing…

What do you do when you start a personal project, but you start to lose interest? Should you quit or keep going, even though it’s no longer fun? What if the project is to improve your health or career? What if your goals change and the project no longer feels relevant? Should you quit or push on,…

13 Oct 2016 September 28, 2015 The urge to sleep creeps up. There goes another off-brand energy drink.Health habits, not my strong suit; nor keeping in touch with old friends.We’re playing Civilization: Beyond Earth to kill the time.It’s almost 3 AM.I hadn’t spoken with him in a while, but tonight…

Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. April 2001, rev. April 2003 (This article is derived from a talk given at the 2001 Franz Developer Symposium.) In the summer of 1995, my friend Robert Morris and I started a startup called Viaweb. Our plan was to write software that would let end…

HomePhilosophyDownloadsDocumentationPeopleCommunityNewsReference NAVIGATION "Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead." Patrick S. Li - May 29, 2016 I had a friend tell me recently that all programming languages seem very similar to each other. They all have variables, and arrays, a few…

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So it’s been a little over a year since GitHub fired me. I initially made a vague tweet about leaving the company , and then a few weeks later I wrote Fired ,

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Get that job at Google I've been meaning to write up some tips on interviewing at Google for a good long time now. I keep putting it off, though, because it's going to make you mad. Probably. For some statistical definition of "you", it's very likely to upset you. Why? Because... well, here, I wrote…