shreyashirday

Tinder | Engineers & Engineering Managers | Palo Alto, Los Angeles | Onsite, Full-time

Tinder brings people together. With tens of millions of users and a presence in every country, our reach is expansive — and rapidly growing. Your work here can change the world. We have a small yet dedicated engineering team with one of the highest ratios of users to engineers in the industry, making every member of the team critical to our success.

We're hiring Backend (Node.js/Java/AWS/Postgres), Android (yes, we use Kotlin!), iOS, ML/Data, and Cloud Infrastructure/SRE roles!!

Reach out to shreyas.hirday@gotinder.com or apply at https://www.gotinder.com/jobs/departments/software-engineeri...

This difference could not exist at all or vary depending on which personal project or production app you're talking about. However, I think that because personal projects generally have solo developers and are more about single use or fast shipping, they tend to have less tests, less of a focus on architecture and modularity, and less documentation.

Unpopular opinion, but I'm not sure there is such thing as "mindlessly browsing. I think that no matter what I'm reading on the internet, I am gaining knowledge and that knowledge is valuable even if it doesn't enhance my professional career directly. For example, reading about the latest entertainment gossip helps me talk about that with friends. Or, leading about the latest news, whether local, national,or global, helps me debate with people I know. The list goes on and on, but I think every piece of knowledge can be important for some part of your life.

As far as "addiction" goes, I wouldn't call it that unless it gets in the way of other parts of your life. Is you browsing the internet making you not spend time with loved ones? Is it making you LESS productive than you already were before it started? Is it making you less physically active? If that's true, then yes, it is an addiction. In that case, I would recommend setting up constant, but annoying, reminders for you to do anything that you feel like you're missing out on. You can even write software that locks down your browser for sometime.

I don't think there's any practical benefit in "mastering" any particular language. In my opinion, it's much more useful to master certain concepts/fields or platforms. For example, instead of choosing to master either Node.js or Python, it would be more helpful to master server-side application development so that potential employers can rely on you to develop a well-written backend no matter what the language being used is.

Becoming an expert in C++ has little value because you have to also be good at applying that knowledge to certain fields, and that's especially true when almost every field (machine learning, application development, embedded systems, etc) has solutions that can be implemented in multiple languages.

TL;DR Don't focus too much on the language, focus more on the concepts of the field you want to work in :)

I actually just tested it out today at a coffee shop! It might take a while to run out of the bathroom, but for me, it's an issue of inconvenience vs certainty

Hey guys, this is a small project I just whipped up the other night. The details are all in the README. Enjoy :)

This seems like a copy of CUPS to me -> https://cupsapp.com/

sorry for the late reply, but I never got an email from a recruiter, just a link to a coding challenge

Applied here for internship, got a coding challenge, completed it, but haven't heard back yet, what does this mean?

is this named after Harvey Specter?

doesn't the other user have to download this app for it to work?

I'd argue that services like Parse.com make the cost go way, way down. Even lower if you are a mobile app developer yourself.