Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them

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A preserved Reddit post from a data engineer with 10+ years of experience, written candidly after a few drinks. Covers career advice (change companies to advance, be honest with managers), technical opinions (SQL is king, best code is no code, TDD is a cult), data engineering specifics (Airflow, streaming, ML project failure rates), and life reflections. Touches on work-life balance, remote work tradeoffs, tech stack philosophy, documentation as an underrated skill, and the importance of kindness. Raw, unfiltered, and widely relatable.

Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer

Really resonate with the point “Tests are important. But TDD is a cult “. 😂 Yes, tests (at the unit level) can catch important functionality breaking, but starting there often feels like an unrelated task that results in a back and forth of making sure the tests match the architecture/ logic of the main program. Find myself in the camp of finding an important business case of the tool, and writing unit tests to make sure the permutations of that case are covered

the post’s spontaneous style of writing make it honest and friendly but seriously this guy is giving gold advices

My drunk post as a Senior Software Engineer is -&gt; Dependency Injection is a greatest convinience if done right. (Angular, Spring, Nest.js etc)

“Programming and computer science is like, what, 80 years old? Compare that with any other engineering discipline. Yeah, we collectively don’t know what the fuck we’re doing.”
I feel safe now lol

Turns out bullet points actually keep my attention. Nice find for me