This article is about my experience participating in yet another Hackathon called Codegeist 2022 organized by Devpost. To take advantage of the Storytelling bonus prize that is up for grabs, this could be a good share for anyone who finds it hard to juggle work […]
Being an EM is not a simple role. We are the fallback for anything within the engineering that is not being taken care of. In simple terms, jack of all trades. Not to dwell too much, let’s focus back on hiring, which is the intention […]
My blog has been quiet for the past two months. That’s because I was busy learning and coding using my own available free time. To prove my credibility, here is the project I have submitted. Feel free to play around with the demo link. Twittron […]
As a manager, you’re bound to mentor engineers that are direct or indirect report to you. As most of us reached our position through our hard earn experience, it’s only natural that people would love to seek wisdom from those that can guide them through […]
May is a month of holiday in Malaysia. Hari Raya is a special day for the Malays, thus the given public holiday. Combo with the labor day, I have a total of 5 days of uninterrupted time to build stuff. Well, not exactly 100% uninterrupted […]
A bit of background. Recently this has been a hot topic among the engineering leads as we talk about recruitment. Some think like this: How all this got started was the trend to make salary transparent. The goal is to help people get their fair […]
I believe this will be a controversial topic to most engineering managers or stakeholders. Nevertheless, having to experience different forms of refactoring in code and process, I like to share some of my thought here. Remove unwanted/redundant code and feature Let’s admit. Most of us […]
According to Wikipedia for the great resignation, the time scale of this event happens around early 2021. Writing this post today, make me a little late into it. But I would like to share my general thought about hiring as an Engineering Manager in Malaysia […]
At the beginning of the year, we heard a lot about “The Great Resignation” trend in the United States. From my end, business was as usual. That is, after about 6 months of lag. I soon realized that our hiring pipeline was getting hard to […]
Despite working from home, it has been an eventful year for me. On top of the usual work, I have started a few initiatives to push myself further. Some are still ongoing, some stopped, and some are reconsidering a restart. What’s changed Here are some […]
