Guide to uplevel engineering skills and search for better opportunities without burning out.
Interviews are becoming more time-consuming as the software industry gathers pace. In addition, new trends keep getting introduced, leaving candidates exhausted to keep up.
The course recommends a more systematic knowledge-driven framework over a burst coding mode in browsers.
Course Ethos
"Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime" - Anon
Questions the course will answer:
- How to upskill at current job?
- How to prepare for a job switch?
- How to ensure the job switch doesn't lead to burnout?
- Is it worth preparing for MAANG/FAANG interview throughout the year?
- How to understand development, deployment, and production systems from a career growth perspective?
- How to plan a career change in the next 9-12 months?
- How to construct the system design conversation during the interview?
- What is the importance of distributed systems in system design?
- What is the role of concurrency, and multithreading, in system design at scale?
Course Link
https://www.udemy.com/course/system-design-interview-upskill-career/
Importance of simplicity in system design
In general, simplicity is a key principle in system design as it allows for better scalability, maintainability, and ease of understanding. A simple design is easy to expand upon, easy to troubleshoot, and easy to communicate to others. Complex systems are more prone to bugs and can be harder to understand and modify. A simple design also allows for greater flexibility and adaptability as the system evolves over time. Therefore, it is important to strive for simplicity in system design in order to create a system that is efficient, reliable, and easy to work with.
Key Roadmap Takeaways:
The idea is simple, prepare at your pace throughout the year and apply only when ready to invest 8 weeks for the potential employers.
Maximize the learnings to capitalize on the current workplace or the new one!
What the course doesn't offer?
- The course does not talk about compensation and HR interview handling
- The course does not talk about the behavioral interview and dress code etc.
- The course does not explicitly target FAANG/MAANG.
- The course does not deal with urgent career change situations like a layoff, reaction to a bad performance review, etc.
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