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Rahul Pandey

Rahul Pandey

I'm the cofounder of Taro! I spend my days thinking about how to provide software engineers with quality feedback and mentorship for their career growth. YouTube: https://youtube.com/rpandey1234

Coders and No-Code: Why Software Engineers Should Learn No-Code Tools

Coders and No-Code: Why Software Engineers Should Learn No-Code Tools

The demand for custom software in the world is insatiable. Tech companies create value with their software products, but the demand is far broader than the tech industry: software is eating the world across law, real estate, and much more. Writing code is one way to build custom software (and

How I Became An $800K Meta Staff Engineer

How I Became An $800K Meta Staff Engineer

In 2021, the last full year I worked at Meta, I made more than $800,000 dollars. In this post, I'll break down my compensation and how it changed each year. Here's the proof from one of my last paystubs in 2021: I joined Facebook, now known as Meta, in

Talk and Observe: A Framework For Engineering Onboarding

Talk and Observe: A Framework For Engineering Onboarding

I've been "the new engineer" at 7 different companies in my career, at varying levels of seniority and company size. I've also directly worked with 100s of software engineers where the same topic comes up repeatedly: onboarding. The onboarding period, usually the first 2-3 months in the company, is critical

The Ultimate Software Engineer Internship Survival Guide

The Ultimate Software Engineer Internship Survival Guide

We're entering our favorite time of year – summer intern season! From excited new faces joining the team meeting to anxious faces trying to make sense of a massive codebase, internships are hugely important for students. Done correctly, interns earn valuable experience, accelerate their careers, and sample the life of a

Welcoming Kenzie Alumni To Taro

Welcoming Kenzie Alumni To Taro

Today, we're announcing a partnership with Kenzie Academy from Southern New Hampshire University to empower alumni from the coding program to dramatically accelerate their career growth with Taro. Kenzie is a leading bootcamp with tech certificate programs in software engineering, web development, and other areas. Kenzie is very effective in

I Just Received a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) -- What Should I Do?

I Just Received a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) -- What Should I Do?

A PIP is a formal document to let an employee know about recurring performance issues. The performance improvement plan (PIP) indicates that the employee is not meeting expectations for their job, and without an improvement, they'll be let go. There's no denying that receiving a PIP is extremely unpleasant. In

The AI Battle Between Microsoft and Google - How ChatGPT and Bard AI Will Shape Society

The AI Battle Between Microsoft and Google - How ChatGPT and Bard AI Will Shape Society

The rate of innovation in AI has never been faster. In the past week: * Google released their highly anticipated chatbot, Bard AI * Microsoft and OpenAI held a joint live event announcing the integration of their chatbot, ChatGPT, into Bing and the Edge browser The increasing power of Artificial Intelligence has