Ending 2022: Meta Prodigy Engineer Story

Wishing you a restful holiday and exciting start to 2023! We posted a review of Taro’s birth year (2022) here: https://www.jointaro.com/blog/taros-2022-year-in-review/ 

Highlighted discussion in Taro: 

• “How do your teams handle scope creep?” with responses from an SDE3 at Amazon and an Eng Manager at Mistplay

• Use Code Review Feedback For Hypergrowth - Meta Prodigy Engineer Story

• “How to hold people accountable for Action Items from meetings?” from a Senior Software Engineer [E5] at DoorDash

• The full masterclass “How To Build Deep Relationships Quickly In Tech” from Dec 17 is now available

This is your last chance to use your learning budget for 2022. If you’re still have budget, and you’re looking for a place with the highest credibility engineers engaged in real discussions, consider joining Taro Premium.

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• Jan 11: Group Office Hours #7 by Alex Chiou

• Jan 12: "How To Become A Data Guru As An Engineer - The Executive Perspective" by Mo Shahangian

• Jan 14: "How To Navigate Tech Industry Layoffs" by Alex and Rahul

Around the web

The Southwest Airlines meltdown is due to an unmaintainable scheduling system which is 20+ years old. The cost of poor technology here is far, far more expensive than the cost incurred by the poor weather conditions in the US in the past week.

Trung Phan @TrungTPhan

A Reddit post explains the Southwest Airlines meltdown (it cancelled >2.5k flights today). TLDR: Crew scheduling system is 20 years outdated. In event of disruption, can only be changed via phone and manually updated (no app/internet options). And generally understaffed.

Build, then learn. Not the other way around. 

Louie Bacaj @LBacaj

If you want to be a software engineer, you have to become comfortable building things without all the experience you need to build them. But if you keep learning and building, there is a high likelihood you’ll figure it out. This is a good lesson for a lot of things in life.

 Rahul & Alex

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