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Mar 13

As it's been ~3 years, figured I'll answer "What caused the Uber Eats glitch that allowed ordering free food for a weekend in India?"

This was an outage on my watch. Given Quora is paywalled - can't post the answer w/o a sub - here's the story on idempotency & breaking changes:

1. What happened? One morning someone in India tried to order food via UberEats in India, using Paytm as a payment method. But they didn't have enough balance.

Got an error message.

Ordered again.

The order went through!! Without having money for it.

News spread quick.

2. This was a payments-related bug. The problem with these is how the bug was in the reconciliation flow. And Uber reconciled with Paytm maybe once a week.

How Uber discovered this: restaurants started going offline thanks to huge order quantities in very short times.

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Mar 12

Every now and then I come across the pretentious fact that almost every tech company can claim: how it’s harder to get in there than Harvard.

Buddy.

1 Harvard application == weeks/months of work put in.

Your stat: inbound resumes to a job ad, ~5 minutes/applicant effort.

And yes, it’s true that virtually every tech company with a decent brand rejects far more than 96% of applicants. Especially if they put a pay and into the job description.

Most of them rejected during a very quick resume screen.

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1476766861320605696

And as Blinkist confidently claims that by having a 4% interview to hire ratio and this hiring the smartest people… Big Tech typically has sub 1% (yes, really).

Cloudflare: 0.7%. Here are the numbers.

Obviously they don’t compare with Harvard because why would they.

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1476766861320605696

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Mar 12

Althought in most of tech we're usually dismissive of how governments approach technology, an exception to this should be the UK Government.

They are building a solid engineering culture, and able to hire and retain great people solving meaningful eng challenges: 1/5

On tech conferences I met people working in the UK government. And was amazed to hear how they're pretty cutting edge in things like accessiblity at scale, digital literacy and empowering engineers.

I mean look at their statement. It starts with "platforms". They get it. 2/5

The most innovative thing about the UK government is not about the engineering practices though. It's the things surrounding engineering.

They have an excellent guide on writing technical content: gov.uk/guidance/conte… 3/5

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Gergely Orosz

@GergelyOrosz

Mar 10

As many people have remote work predictions, here is mine:

Remote work will be here to stay for tech... but not everywhere. The big companies will successfully bring most people back to the office in a hybrid (2-3 days/week) setting. Traditional companies will aim to follow. 1/4

@mar15sa

But in the process, remote work explodes in popularity. Startups, mid-sized companies and a few larger ones go, stay & thrive full-remote.

Businesses helping this transition also thrive - e.g. ones by @mar15sa & @SergioRocks (you should follow them on remote work insights). 2/4

Hiring and onboarding people in a remote setting vs in the office/hybrid will continue to be a massive difference, especially with junior engineers.

This is an achilles heel remote-first companies will need to solve: and an advantage hybrid ones currently have. 3/4

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Mar 10

Big Tech that has announced return to the office - usually as a hybrid setup with 2/3 days/week - and when it's due:

- Microsoft: 28 March
- Meta: 28 March
- Google: 4 April
- Apple: 11 April

Who wins: policy? Exceptions for devs threatening to quit? Startups hiring remote?

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For all the above companies, the plan has always been to return the office.

What has changed since is how many of their competitors became remote-first since. E.g. Twitter, Shopify. And how well-funded startups are hiring full-remote and are desperate to hire from these places.

Several DMs later:

Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all extremely chill about engineers coming back to the office. Most engineers I talked to won’t go back / have exceptions / their manager allowing remote.

Only place where it’s serious is Apple. Seems no way out there.

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Gergely Orosz

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Mar 9

The mind-blowing nature of the tech job market:

A new grad software engineer can make more than a Head of Engineering, both working locally. An outlier: but it happens.

It's because "tech" is a very broad field, and different companies have different compensation models.

This realization hit me as I'm finalizing my recording of the overview of the Netherlands tech job market.

There's a data point for a Head of Engineering making €61,000 and data points for new grads in Amsterdam, at Uber making ~€90K/year (€68K base, the rest bonus + equity).

Also why titles are not that telling in many cases.

When at Skyscanner, as a principal engineer I made about £90K/year, in London.

Moved to Uber and became a senior engineer. My comp doubled, and the nature of the work was similar.

More on this: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-seniority-…

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