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Blogs tagged with #career. 🏷️
2026
Half a Decade at HackerRank 💚
My goodbye to HackerRank after five years: getting recruited off a GitHub profile, going from writing code to owning outcomes, and shipping AI to real users. · 7 min read
What Is an AI First Engineer in 2026? 🤖
An AI first engineer in 2026 is defined by verification, not generation. What the role really means, what changed this year, and how to actually become one. · 6 min read
My Blog Syndication Strategy 📣
My blog syndication strategy keeps souravdey.space as the canonical source, with Dev.to and Hashnode as discovery layers instead of separate homes. · 9 min read
Why Side Projects Compound 🏗️
Side projects used to feel like stolen time. They became steady career practice: shipping in public, clearer choices, and skills that showed up at work. · 4 min read
Product Engineering: The Only Skill That Survives AI 🏗️
Why product thinking, not just coding ability, determines who thrives in the AI era. Seven years of building customer-facing products taught me this. · 4 min read
7 Years as a Software Engineer: What Actually Changed 💼
Seven years in software: from green builds that still felt wrong to owning ambiguity and scope. Honest notes on career, craft, and what still feels hard. · 4 min read
2022
My Hackathon Mentoring Experience 🚀
What it's like mentoring developers at a hackathon: guiding teams, reviewing ideas, and helping build solutions under time pressure. · 3 min read
YouTube Live with PrepInsta and Careerboat 🎥
A live session on landing high-paying tech jobs as a fresher: my TCS to HackerRank journey, building projects that matter, and skills college never teaches. · 2 min read
2020
Facebook Developer Circle Open Source Challenge 2020 🏆
My experience in the Facebook Developer Circle Open Source Immersion Challenge 2020: contributing to open source and finishing in the 🏆 top 1000 worldwide. · 1 min read
Finalist at Google Cloud DevJam Hackathon 2020 🏆
How our team's product idea and prototype reached the top 6 finalists globally in the Google Cloud DevJam Hackathon 2020, from first idea to a working demo. · 5 min read