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I am interviewing a lot of candidates these days
for forward deployed engineering roles
I am only looking for these 2 signals
in their story:
A] Sharp B] High agency
from now on the only 2 ways to keep yourself safe from layoffs
1. find consultant friends
2. build software and get 10 users
the Microsoft situation is bad
but these factors remains the cause
wanted to write this on LinkedIn
but writing it here:
SWE is going through massive transformation and there will be consequences
3 things that every SWE must understand:
1. Writing code is an economically unviable.
2. Existing SWE processes like Scrum, Agile etc were designed to support human limitations of writing code. AI has broken that limit.
3. Fable, Astra & Argon is showing the world that most code written by humans is sloppy. Follow the PHP news you’d understand.
It is time to focus on outcome rather than the older process.
At this pace, the only blockers are humans who still hold the processes dear to themselves.
Dont be blocker, else leadership will remove the blockade
Forward deployed engineer interview questione
Redact PII information from email corpus before the LLM processing
and put it back in the final output
describe the solution in 5 points
wanted to write this on LinkedIn
but writing it here:
SWE is going through massive transformation and there will be consequences
3 things that every SWE must understand:
1. Writing code is an economically unviable.
2. Existing SWE processes like Scrum, Agile etc were designed to support human limitations of writing code. AI has broken that limit.
3. Fable, Astra & Argon is showing the world that most code written by humans is sloppy. Follow the PHP news you’d understand.
It is time to focus on outcome rather than the older process.
At this pace, the only blockers are humans who still hold the processes dear to themselves.
Dont be blocker, else leadership will remove the blockade
Few days back a sr director of tech
at one of my client co
asked my team
to add time spent on per story
in JIRA
Man, you are obsolete
Just don’t make it obvious
Freshers if you are appearing for tech consulting roles
here is what to prepare at a high lvl:
1. CS fundamentals
2. Applied AI
3. Communication- focus on clarity
I have visited and continue to visit tier 1 institutions on campus in 26-27
Good luck.
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FDE interview question:
your travel support bot has spent
$70K this month which is 5X increase
the booking numbers are still the same and the CFO is freaking out
what do you do?
Forward Deployed Engineer is a consulting role
if you have enough exposure and right guidance
anyone can literally make a good living by selling simple tools to millions of small businesses in India
As a forward deployed engineer
you are not expected to know everything
yet you have to explain it like you do
Few days back I went to campus interview at a tier 1 college and left shocked
Students who scored 100/100 in there OA couldn’t compile there code in live coding rounds
Students please understand DSA
is not the only criteria
but you gotta be able to compile
and explain your code
AI slop has taken over tier 3 india
every banner, political poster and small advertisement is fully
Nano Banana
my entire town is an AI slop
We have flying cars, cancer vaccine, robots walking and space shuttles caught with chopsticks
yet if your manager asks you to update JIRA
you know what to do








