If you’re into tech, I strongly encourage you to follow this channel @ALifeEngineered. I love the way how he unpacks his career journey into bite-size advice for people to follow. Most importantly, the philosophy and principles he shares are so relevant to what I am […]
As I reflect on the year, one of the final few one-on-one sessions I had with a couple of senior engineers delved into the concept of shaping your own job scope. Yes, you heard that correctly. But before you go revamping your entire job description, […]
Building processes and systems are part and parcel of the engineering. This is where we transfer manual steps into a documented code and script. This allows us to automate work and just make us be more lazy. Just kidding, is for us to scale our […]
I feel incredibly fortunate to have been sponsored by my company to attend the Black Belt in Thinking (BBIT) course. As someone whose role demands a lot of critical thinking and decision-making, I was impressed by the valuable lessons I learned and how I could […]
What’s this leadership circle profile all about? Before that, I believe in the market there are many tools to measure leadership. And this is just one of them. The way it does this is to breakdown your behavior and action against the following condition: Both […]
As an engineering manager and the leader of my team, coaching is an important duty to ensure the success of my team. As per the title, the first book recommended to me was “Trillion dollar coach”. A story about Bill Campbell, a success coach for […]
As an employee, it is common to expect a salary adjusted annually. It could be in the form of market inflation, adjustment, or promotion. That said, rewarding employee fairly for the work they did for the past year is not an easy task. Therefore, most […]
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 […]
The last couple of months has been exciting month that involves winning a couple of hackathon through personal initiative after work hours. In my current company, we have this culture of sharing. And I took the opportunity to share my experience of the virtual hack […]
In recent years, Hackathon/hack week/hack day has been the driving force behind the innovation of the large company. It also serves multi-purpose. 1) Medium for recruitment to find passionate engineers. 2) Timeout and a change of pace from the usual backlogs. 3) Builds culture and […]
