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I recently got an email from AWS about an account I created for consulting work nearly six months ago. Someone managed to get in and stand up a bunch of EBS clusters. Fortunately, this was caught by logs at the startup…

I've been working on a startup with a friend for about the past year and unfortunately after having to eject one of our co-founders we're starting to run low on funds and might need to wrap if we can't raise something…

I have 4yoe at startups and one faang and spent the past year (yr 5) working as a technical product manager. I think my multiple 2yr stints has made me un-hireable even as someone who isn't necessarily a "junior"…

I remember seeing this thread come up a few months ago and the creator mentioned they would maybe open-source the code? It looks like the stream on twitch is dead now, but curious if anyone knows who created this / how…

I was laid off from my TPM gig about four months ago. Transitioning from core dev to a technical product role seemed like a good idea to broaden my future options and explore an area of tech I was curious about. At the…

I'm working on a project that needs to leverage very fast video resizing and blurring. I can do this with fast enough CPU's with complex filters in FFMPEG but I'm running into the upper limit of what FFMPEG can handle…

I'm an eng with three years of backend experience (1yr faang, 2.5yrs growth stage startup) and one year being a technical product manager / product eng. Startup I was working for laid off 75% of the eng team and half…

Hi everyone, Last year I decided to take the opportunity to broaden my options and join a growth stage startup (in crypto space with $100M + series A) as a TPM. Basically, I was getting bored with leetcode / having to…

I have an offer on the table for a TPM role, company who's tech / industry I have direct knowledge of. For instance I've forked their open source code, provided features people like etc etc. I have 3.6YOE as a backend…

After two years of being beaten into this new way of working I honestly feel more at a loss for what my career is than any other time in my life. I've been doing software work about four years now, first year or so was…

Hi everyone, I'm in my late twenties and looking for states / cities to relocate to with more of a social balance than where I currently live in New York City. I feel like to continue growing I need to be in a place…

Just hit three months at a new full remote startup I joined. The job provided a nice 30% pay bump from my last job, decent benefits and seemingly cool work based in Elixir (which is what I've been working on the most…

I'm starting to realize that I'm a mediocre yet "smart" developer who might not be cut out for doing this long term. I find reading about software really interesting, built a number of my own apps, was able to pick up…