Jem Young
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Jem Young
@JemYoung
EM - Platform Engineering @Netflix. Co-host of @FrontendHH🎙🥃. Instructor on @FrontendMasters. Taller in real life. bsky.app/profile/jemyou…
- Software Engineers don't realize that 95% of production outages come from code changes. Twitter has been on a code freeze for almost 3 weeks now which explains how it has stayed up and running with only skeleton crew.
- First day as an Engineering Manager at Netflix 😁
- Do you use semicolons in your JavaScript or are you a monster?
- What's the smallest, most petty programming hill you'll die on? Mine is commenting regular expressions. I will call this out in EVERY single code review.
- 🤫 I'm hiring soon for a Senior Software Engineer 🤫 - GraphQL - Platform - Infrastructure - JavaScript Pro: you get to work with an amazing team Con: I'll be your manager and no, you don't get free Netflix
- Replying to @JemYoungAt Netflix, we understand and embrace this reality which is why we do a code freeze every December to help ensure maximum holiday uptime.
- It's very difficult to become a senior web developer without independent learning outside of work. Not saying you need to go home and code every night but most successful seniors engineers at some point in their career spent their free time coding.
- Don't define yourself by a framework, library, or coding paradigm. The best engineers are problem solvers first and foremost; Frameworks and libraries are simply tools for solving problems. Aspire to a be great engineer no matter the language.
- If medicine interviewed doctors like engineers: "Oh so you're a doctor with 20 years experience? Name all 206 bones in the human body."
- Replying to @JemYoungNow the minute they start pushing new features or bug fixes, I guarantee Twitter is going to crash. Not being pessimistic, just stating the realities of modern software engineering.
- When you spend all your time adding features to the UI but don't consider the UX
- Life of an Engineering Manager meeting meeting meeting meeting OH S*!# JEM EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE WE NEED YOU meeting meeting meeting meeting
- In #tech we glorify hustle culture and working long hours far too much. Tell me a story of the laziest thing thing you've ever done to advance your career.
