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Irina Stanescu

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Writing "The Caring Techie Newsletter" Teaching "Impact through Influence" on Maven Eng Leader / Leadership Coach ex-@Google, ex-@Uber.

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Reading other people’s code is a powerful learning tool. Code search enabled that for me during my time at Google, of course, I had to look at Jeff Dean’s code.

One of the most useful internal tools at Google: Code Search "Sometimes I would not even look through my own IDE, I would just type 'cs /xyz...' " From @thecaringtechie who worked at Google for 5 years. Fascinating how Google's *internal* code search is also as good as it gets!



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Excellent post from the amazing @TheCaringTechie earlier today relevant to this discussion: "Lessons in Leadership from Formula 1: @KristianHorner vs @TotoWolff_" ... thecaringtechie.com/p/lessons-in-l… cc @F1 @F1Movie #F1TheMovie @RedBullRacing @Ferrari


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Seeing engineering managers, sr EMs, directors - folks who are technical but were not too hands on recently - leaving current jobs, starting a startup, building the first version of their product… thanks to GenAI tools Not seen it happen at this scale before. A big change!


The more I use ChatGPT, the more frustrated I become with Siri and Google Assistant. Ask a simple question? “Here’s what I found on the web.” Try to set something up? “I’m not sure I understand.” Google & Apple get it together!


Happy to hear you found my latest article useful!

I enjoyed reading the Caring Techie Newsletter by @thecaringtechie.

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First day back at work and I am NOT ready.


The Caring Techie Newsletter hit an incredible milestone: 50k!! 🤩 If you’re a subscriber or have supported me in any way, I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU!! 🫶🏻 And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, check out my newsletter in the link in my bio.

thecaringtechie's tweet image. The Caring Techie Newsletter hit an incredible milestone: 50k!! 🤩
If you’re a subscriber or have supported me in any way, I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU!! 🫶🏻
And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, check out my newsletter in the link in my bio.

Irina Stanescu reposted

If you are an engineer that wish to level up in your career, this post is for you! Newsletters are truly an amazing source of knowledge that will help you to grow in your career. Here are 13 newsletters that I highly recommend to read: - System Design Newsletter by…

gregorojstersek's tweet image. If you are an engineer that wish to level up in your career, this post is for you!

Newsletters are truly an amazing source of knowledge that will help you to grow in your career.

Here are 13 newsletters that I highly recommend to read:

- System Design Newsletter by…

I miss memegen

An internal tool completely unique to Google - with nothing similar across any of Big Tech, or other large companies: Memegen @thecaringtechie explains what it is, and why it's uniquely "Googley":



All engineering managers can confirm, the number one quality they wish their software engineers had is: Being proactive. When you’re proactive, you’re helping your manager help you. Trust me, your managers will notice and appreciate it.


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What is "Borg" - a platform heavily used inside Google, to this day? @thecaringtechie: "At the time [2011-2016], I had not seen being able to dynamically allocate jobs, resources, clusters and all that - anywhere else. (...) It felt like a lot of power!"


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The design doc culture at Google vs Uber via @thecaringtechie (formerly at Google and Uber): Google: "They wouldn't even talk to you if you didn't have a design doc. You couldn't just walk up to someone and say I have this idea. Their response: where's the design doc?"


Thank you so much for having me on! I had a blast sharing my stories and lessons and felt right at home thanks to your thoughtful questions and energy. Can’t wait to see how it resonates with the listeners!

How does tooling and promotions work at Google, and what are tactics to become a more influential engineer? Ex-Google engineer @thecaringtechie shares insights in the latest The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast episode. Watch the full episode: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/promotions-a… A special thanks…



Irina Stanescu reposted

Thank you so much for having me on! I had a blast sharing my stories and lessons and felt right at home thanks to your thoughtful questions and energy. Can’t wait to see how it resonates with the listeners!


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First up at #LeadDevBerlin we have @thecaringtechie talking us through how to lead in these current times of scarcity “Less staff, more work, everything will be great” gets a good chuckle from the audience


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