Edmond Lau is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience at Silicon Valley's elite tech firms like Google and Quora. His passion lies in fostering top-notch engineering teams, having interviewed over 500 candidates and shared insights on engineering culture. Lau has expanded onboarding and mentoring programs at Quora, scaling the engineering team significantly. His expertise has been recognized by leading publications and he's delivered lectures at MIT and Stanford. A MIT alumnus, he holds a Master's in Computer Science.
"...can produce 10 times the impact of other engineers, but they're not working 10 times the hours." 打动我让我一直看完全书的就是这句 在我身边 有5年内升到L6的 也有二十年如一日的L5 从他们身上看到的参照对比非常明显 相当于正反两面的例子 = = 这么说是不是不太礼貌? 我也就偷偷说这样的话 当面绝对不说 对任何人都不说。
Despite the differences in industry, the concept of getting things done and deliver the output in a less time and effort consuming way is the pursuit of both engineer and company’s goal, with so many specific rules and methods to follow, the rule of thumb is the adopting the right mindset! And what follows just be simple
对我感觉像老生常谈了,todo list,move fast,善用编辑器等等
作为软件工程师,你所需要的效率思维,工具和方法,这本书基本都介绍到了。
刚刚读完的一本好书,推荐给每一位开发者!
work, career
言简意赅。
感觉一般,大都是磨刀不误砍柴工的意思,有点像励志书,看了也不算浪费时间吧
optimize for learning这个点是最让我有启发的地方。其实在日复一日的工作中,leverage 或者prioritize 说到很多,应用也很多,但却很容易忽略或忘记去问自己一个问题,我现在做的是在optimize 自己的学习曲线么?
道理都懂,出手就跪。 感觉这本书对于在大公司的tongue来说,能帮你更好的appreciate成熟的流程(onboarding experience, continuous delivery system, abstraction of core data models and analytics platform, async event sourcing, etc). 对于在startup或者没有那么成熟的公司来说的,其实借鉴意义更强一些。作者写的level也比较高, senior+吧。作为一个junior engineer, 第一章的东西比如leveraging high impact effort, continuous growth,适用于任何领域。