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VJ's Insights

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VJ's Insights

@vjsinsights

Eng Manager @ Google • Ex Bloomberg & Amazon • Tweets on Career Development, Soft Skills • Views are my own • YouTube.com/@vjsinsights

New York, NY, USA

Joined January 2023

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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Aug 28, 2023
Since I don't always tweet about career related topics, I've decided to create this thread of my [supposedly] useful threads & tweets and pin it. Hopefully new followers won't need to comb through my other nonsense to discover some [supposedly] valuable stuff. Here you go👇🏾
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Nov 5, 2025
Cloud formation in us-east-1
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Aug 2, 2025
Applies to both personal and professional rejections.
Sunny R Gupta 🐰
@sunnykgupta
Aug 2, 2025
🙂 it is what it is.
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Aug 4, 2025
Replying to @cneuralnetwork
If a background check exposes the lie, you won’t just lose the opportunity, you’ll lose credibility. Not worth it.
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Dec 5, 2024
At 25, I was a nobody. In your favorite terms, I was a nobody from a tier-2 city and a tier-3 college, struggling through a mediocre undergrad program. I even had the audacity to pursue a master's degree, despite my questionable grades. At 25, I was still a student when I
Pranav Mehta
@i_pranavmehta
Dec 4, 2024
By 25, I had already - studied 2 engineering streams (civil and cs, and cleared GATE with good ranks in both of them). Studied mech partially. - built a crypto exchange! - okayish rank in CAT to get call from some IIMs - had made money in diff businesses along with gambling,
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Oct 10, 2023
My father had a very tough childhood, but he made sure that we didn’t. W/o the foundation he laid, I wouldn’t be where I am. Seeing happiness on his face after he visited the Google office was very satisfying! Thank you Baba for everything! Grateful forever.
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Apr 16, 2025
One of the best things money can buy is the ability to travel and enjoy new experiences!
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Nov 13, 2025
I’m not built for the rat race - or any race, for that matter. But life doesn’t let you sit out that easily. I still need to keep running for a few more years.
Vaelor💥
@vaelor0
Nov 11, 2025
Most painful realization about yourself?
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Sep 22, 2024
Maturity is realizing there's more to CS than just Web and AI. OS, databases, networks, graphics, embedded, security, gaming, quant finance, HFT - just to name a few (and there’s more).
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Sep 20, 2025
If you were considering pursuing MS in US, strongly reconsider it now.
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Dec 19, 2024
Please don’t call me “sir”. Regardless of your age, calling me by my name or VJ is not only acceptable, but preferred.
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Oct 14, 2023
Yah, no kidding
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Oct 2, 2024
A strong GitHub profile can show off your dev skills, but a quiet GitHub doesn’t mean a weak developer. Many devs making a huge impact in their company choose not to post things publicly.
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VJ's Insights
@vjsinsights
Oct 9, 2024
I have given DSA, System Design and Behavioral interviews of the following orgs and have cleared - Google - Meta - Coinbase - Robinhood - Shopify - And plenty of others that I didn’t clear... but hey, does that really matter? I’ve also spent 6.5 years at Amazon and 10 years at
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