Engineers Survival Guide: Advice, tactics, and tricks After a decade of working at Facebook, Snapchat, and Microsoft

1. Introduction and Who This Book Is For
2. First Day at Work and Imposter Syndrome
3. The Importance of Data to Convince Others
4. How Often Should You Interview?
5. Learning to Say No and Brutal Prioritization
6. Never Say No!
7. Finding a Mentor
8. Prototype Fast. First Working Prototype Always Wins
9. Visibility Is Everything
10. Let People Fail. Help Them Fall Slowly
11. The Tiebreaker—Reaching Consensus
12. The Importance of Allies in Design Discussions
13. The Power of Meeting Summary Emails
14. Align, Align, and Align Again
15. The Power of Giving Credit
16. Sharing the Responsibilities
17. Taking Responsibility & Ownership
18. How to Disarm Assholes
19. Adaptability
20. The Importance of Tools and Patterns
21. Open Source Internally
22. How to Get More Headcount
23. Side Projects and Knowing Your Surroundings
24. The Importance of Networking
25. Changing Teams—Risks, Timing, Making the Switch
26. How Fast to Respond to Emails/Chats
27. One-on-Ones with the Leadership
28. Act Then Think
29. Do Not Be Scared to Take the Time Off!
30. Biggest Regret
31. Perfectionism—Your Biggest Enemy
32. Finding an Ownership Area
33. Do Not Redesign a Working System
34. The Importance of the Culture
35. Ambiguity
36. Hold That Question
37. Put it on My Tasks—Unblock Yourself
38. Do You Have Some Time? Ask My Calendar
39. Setting Focus Blocks
40. Make People Think It Was Their Idea
41. Being More Active on Interviews
42. What to Expect from a Brand-New Manager
43. Collecting Feedback
44. Dogfooding
45. The Importance of Knowing Terms—Office Jargon
46. Knowing Popular Frameworks and How They Work
47. Never Keep All Your Eggs in The Same Basket
48. The Importance of Positive Surroundings
49. Being the Happy Coworker
50. Working at a Start-up
51. Office Politics
52. How to Help Your Manager Work for You
53. The Importance of Intelligence
54. Comparative Analysis
55. Power of A/B Testing
56. Logs, Events, Metrics and Dashboards
57. Debuggers and Crash Investigation
58. Remember It Is Not Your Company
59. Playing for the Long Game
60. Conclusion