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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

11 months

i get a lot of questions about Google's architecture so i figured i'd drop a detailed design here

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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2 years

I've officially been promoted at Google! 🥳🎉

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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2 years

my typical day at Google: 9am - reverse a linked list 11am - count unique ways to climb a staircase with dp 12pm - lunch 3pm - help animal escape NxM matrix efficiently 4pm - invert a binary tree 5pm - commute home using Dijkstra's

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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8 months

"i need 3 monitors" "i need a mechanical keyboard" "i need noise cancelling headphones" Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system's, setup:

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

9 months

me in the shower thinking about how to solve the bug

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

🚩 RED FLAGS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERS 🚩 -uses macOS -uses ChatGPT -drinks pour over coffee -can't reverse a linked list -uses more than 1 monitor -tries new languages for "fun" -doesn't push to prod on friday (live a little?) -works on side projects outside of work -actually does…

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

software engineering is 95% Googling

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

How do people in tech work for so many years? I can't keep doing this. 10am to 3pm, 10am to 3pm, day after day with only an hour for lunch. It really wears on you after a while...

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

4 months

when your code doesn't handle that one weird super obscure edge case and prod breaks

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

Google commented on my LinkedIn post about my desk setup 🥹

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

6 months

software engineers after their one and only meeting for the week

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

So much of software engineering is just not giving up when you're stuck

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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1 year

"prove you're a software engineer"

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

my typical day at Google as a software engineer: - get stuck on something - open an internal doc to get help - read first paragraph and open 3 other docs that are linked to - start reading 2nd doc's first paragraph and open 7 more internal doc links - cry

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

10 months

my desk as a software engineer

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

Coding is hard

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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7 months

an entire computer science degree in 11 minutes

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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7 months

i literally knew nothing about software engineering after i finished my computer science degree

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

being a software engineer is just getting paid to figure out things you have no idea how to do

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

4 months

software engineers adding dependencies to their projects

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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10 months

today marks 2 years as a software engineer at Google 🎉

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

Most of coding is just silent thinking

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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1 month

building a startup with my closest friends just like this is the dream

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

gifting a MacBook Pro to any comments on this tweet with 0 likes

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

someone pls explain how hashing algorithms like SHA-256 are irreversible like i'm 5 years old

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

assigning this ticket to their ceo

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

I wasted years of my life studying for big tech interviews...

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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9 months

99.9% of software engineers can't find the bug in this code

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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2 years

Coding is fun until you have to resolve merge conflicts 🥹

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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7 months

software engineers are the smartest people in the world

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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2 months

someone pls explain what an API is like i'm 5 years old

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

10 months

coding is 95% copying and pasting

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

6 months

i just need my laptop

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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7 months

in software engineering sometimes just explaining the problem to someone else is enough to arrive at the solution

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

9 months

read this book and become a senior software engineer today

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

8 months

all tests should do this ✅

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

a lot of people doubted me, but i always knew i'd get to where i am today. all it only took was hard work, dedication, and a sizeable loan from my parents

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

i once deleted a prod database. that was the end of my job and the company

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

being a software engineer is fun 🥹

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

12,000 layoffs at Google 😔

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

8 months

software engineering in a nutshell

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

4 months

unpopular opinion: you become passionate about something after working hard to become good at it, not before

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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1 year

software engineering is a dying profession

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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1 year

computer science and software engineering are not the same

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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7 months

i once interviewed a senior software engineer who claimed to have 10+ years of experience writing java they couldn't even write a for loop

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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10 months

real software engineers use MacBook Pros

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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6 months

when CI/CD breaks

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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8 months

every time i remember that this is how the internet actually works i freak out a little

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

10 months

my gf tries being a software engineer for 5 minutes...

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 month

if you ever feel stupid just know that i accidentally used an LLM to incorrectly parse a csv file and write ~15,000 files to my desktop

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

3 years

I'm excited to share that today is my first day at @Google as a software engineer. Hard work always pays off! #google #noogler #softwareengineering #coding #programming

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

Software Engineering is so much more than just writing code

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

6 months

software engineers after giving a 2 minute demo

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

Most of coding is just Googling

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

working as a software engineer at Google is like working at any other company. if you don't believe me, just take a look at some code

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

my friend learned C as his first programming language during his computer science degree. he quit after the first semester i learned Python as my first programming language during my computer science degree and i finished the major feel free to draw your own conclusions

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

9 months

software engineering is easy, just assign the ticket to someone else

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 months

senior engineers reviewing a 1 line code change

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

i genuinely do not understand why so many people like VSCode

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

people think software engineering is easy i'd like to see you try and sit in front of a computer for ~4 hours straight 5 days a week

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

9 months

real software engineers never use ChatGPT

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

soft skills > technical skills

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

Software engineering is this weird field where one day you'll feel like you know everything and the next day you'll feel like you know nothing

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

become a senior software engineer today with two simple words 😤🤝

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

i talk to myself when i code

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

if you don't know what this code does you're not a software engineer

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

6 months

python is the worst programming language to start with

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

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1 year

it's just a flesh wound

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

learning C is easier than learning Python

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

8 months

the fact that i didn't learn about testing during my entire computer science degree is insane

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

6 months

why is backend development so hard and frontend development so easy 😭

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

I know, I know, "Kevin, why does it take you 2 hours to reverse a linked list?!" but you should see the size of linked lists at Google, they're massive so it takes a while to run

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

10 months

real software engineers never use Google

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

8 months

everyone wants documentation but no one wants to actually write it

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

Software engineering is just an endless loop of reading docs

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

i don't have a good personality but i have a good desk setup

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

10 months

unit tests are a waste of time

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

the best software engineers i know have basically zero online presence

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

11 months

if calculators didn't replace mathematicians, why do you think AI is going to replace software engineers?

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

just doing my morning affirmations

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

11 months

"software engineering is just moving data around"

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

9 months

software engineer turned farmer update:

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

4 months

users experiencing the bug vs me trying to reproduce the bug

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

9 months

the first step in learning to code is buying a MacBook pro

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

coding requires extreme focus

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

8 months

no matter how long i write code for i'll never remember regex syntax

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

Me trying to connect my frontend and backend

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

2 years

I have officially broken prod at Google 🙃🔥

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

8 months

learning how to code is really just learning how to critically think

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

7 months

how to ACTUALLY land a job in tech...

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

why write tests when you can just write the code correctly the first time?

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

my typical day at Google: 10am - breakfast in Google cafe 12pm - lunch in Google cafe 2pm - workout in Google gym 3pm - coffee at Google cafe 4pm - dinner in Google cafe 5pm - head home after a long day of work 🥱

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Kevin Naughton Jr.

@KevinNaughtonJr

1 year

me trying to solve any coding interview question