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001 Ai Topological Sort

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TLDR: The Startup Hiring Lie Nobody Talks About

Date: 2025-05-19 Source: https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/biggest-lie-startups-tell-engineers

Overview

The biggest lie startups tell during hiring is - We have a lot of problems, and you can pick whatever you want to solve.

Key Points

A lack of clarity in leadership
They’re just trying to lure you in
What’s the team working on right now?

Takeaway

Don’t get sold on freedom, get sold on focus.

001-ai-topological-sort.md

002 Temporal Primer

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003 Rag Production

003-rag-production.md

004 Structure Of Llm Chat

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005 How Llms Work

005-how-llms-work.md

006 Monolith Is Distributed System

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007 Defensive Databases

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008 Bm25

009 Join Algorithms

009-join-algorithms.md

010 Venting At Work

010-venting-at-work.md

011 Half Life

011-half-life.md

012 Multi Paxos

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013 Mysql Replication Internals

013-mysql-replication-internals.md

014 Bloom Filters

014-bloom-filters.md

015 Clock Sync Nightmare

015-clock-sync-nightmare.md

016 Kafka Partitions

016-kafka-partitions.md

017 Product Quantization

017-product-quantization.md

018 Qkv Matrices

018-qkv-matrices.md

019 Deleted Production

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020 How Llm Inference Works

020-how-llm-inference-works.md

021 Blocking Queues

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022 Heartbeats In Distributed Systems

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023 Cassandra Writes

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024 Redis Replication

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025 Arrogant People At Work

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026 Cdn Content Replication

026-cdn-content-replication.md

027 Cant Fix Everything Day One

027-cant-fix-everything-day-one.md

028 Emotions At Work

028-emotions-at-work.md

029 Grpc Http2

029-grpc-http2.md

030 Meetings With No Agenda Are A Waste Of Time

030-meetings-with-no-agenda-are-a-waste-of-time.md

031 Growth Is Not About Doing Everything

031-growth-is-not-about-doing-everything.md

032 Career Longevity Vs Job Hopping

032-career-longevity-vs-job-hopping.md

033 Stay Relevant At Higher Salary Levels

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034 Why Consensus

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035 Database Deadlocks

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036 Cpu Cache Locality

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037 Eventual Consistency

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038 Dns Udp Tcp

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039 Masters

040 Empathy Makes Great Engineers Unstoppable

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041 Good Mentors Build People

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042 Always Have Back Burner Projects

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043 Before You Push Back Know What Youre Standing On

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044 Be The One They Can Count On

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045 How Much People Bet On You

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046 How To Get Leadership To Say Yes To Your Project

046-how-to-get-leadership-to-say-yes-to-your-project.md

047 Dont Let Your Best Ideas Die In Silence

047-dont-let-your-best-ideas-die-in-silence.md

048 Be Someone Others Want To Work With

048-be-someone-others-want-to-work-with.md

049 Dont Fall For Xy Problem Ask Right Questions

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050 Biggest Lie Startups Tell Engineers

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051 Promotions Are Proactive Not Reactive

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052 Not Enough To Be Right Learn To Be Heard

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053 No One Ships Alone

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054 Not Every Mistake Needs A Correction

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055 Build Influence At Work

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056 Your Soft Skills Arent Soft At All

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057 Experience Before Forming Opinion

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058 Curiosity And High Bias For Action

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059 Worklog

060 Mistakes And Growth

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061 Own It Instead Of Sweeping It Aside

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062 Dont Wait Step Up

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063 Temporary Fix Is Permanent

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064 Interview Bias And What Sets You Apart

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065 Saying This Isnt My Problem Is A Problem

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066 Okr

067 Miscommunication

067-miscommunication.md

068 When In Doubt Code It Out

068-when-in-doubt-code-it-out.md

069 Follow Up Without Annoying People

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070 Lead Projects That Land

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071 Abstract Thinking Skill Next Decade

071-abstract-thinking-skill-next-decade.md

072 We Engineers Suck At Task Estimation

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073 Shiny Object Syndrome In Tech

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074 3p

075 Leverage The Equilibrium

075-leverage-the-equilibrium.md

076 On Demand Container Loading In Aws Lambda

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077 Sql Has Problems We Can Fix Them Pipe Syntax In Sql

077-sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-them-pipe-syntax-in-sql.md

078 Nanolog A Nanosecond Scale Logging System

078-nanolog-a-nanosecond-scale-logging-system.md

079 Best Resource Is Mythical

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080 Wtf The Who To Follow Service At Twitter

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081 Know A Lot

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082 Out Of Syllabus

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083 Negotiate The Offer

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084 Never Bad Mouth Your Ex Exployer

084-never-bad-mouth-your-ex-exployer.md

085 Culture Fit

085-culture-fit.md

086 Quantification In Resume

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087 Hiring Is Unfair

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088 Questions For Interviewers

088-questions-for-interviewers.md

089 Collaboration Communication

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090 Out Of Vicious Interview Cycle

090-out-of-vicious-interview-cycle.md

091 Pitch Projects Not Ideas

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092 Read Design Docs

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093 Read Rca Docs

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094 Start Generalist

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095 Do Not Rely On Summaries

095-do-not-rely-on-summaries.md

096 Structure Your Design Interviews

096-structure-your-design-interviews.md

097 Title Inflation

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098 Find Your Own Project

098-find-your-own-project.md

099 Six Pointers To Crack Coding And Design Interviews

099-six-pointers-to-crack-coding-and-design-interviews.md

100 Keep Yourself Unblocked

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101 Genetic Knapsack

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102 Pseudorandom Number Generation Lfsr

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103 How Indexes Work On Partitioned And Sharded Data

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104 Some Data Partitioning Strategies For Distributed Data Stores

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105 Data Partitioning

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106 Leaderless Replication

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107 Conflict Resolution

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108 Conflict Detection

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109 Multi Master Replication

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110 Monotonic Reads

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111 Read Your Write Consistency

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112 Handling Outages Master Replica

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113 Replication Formats

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114 Replication Strategies

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115 Master Replica Replication

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116 Durability

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117 Isolation

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118 Atomicity

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119 Consistency

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120 Architectures In Distributed Systems

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121 Mistaken Beliefs Of Distributed Systems

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122 Fork Bomb

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123 Chained Operators Python

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124 Taxonomy On Sql

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125 The Weird Walrus

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126 Fully Persistent Arrays

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127 Persistent Data Structures Introduction

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128 Constant Folding Python

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129 String Interning Python

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130 Recursion Visualizer Python

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131 Flajolet Martin

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132 2q Cache

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133 Israeli Queues

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134 1d Terrain

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135 Jaccard Minhash

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136 Ts Smoothing

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137 Lfu

138 Morris Counter

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139 Slowsort

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140 Bitcask

141 Phi Accrual

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142 10x Engineer

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143 Decipher Repeated Key Xor

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144 Decipher Single Xor

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145 Python Iterable Integers

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146 Inheritance C

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147 Rum

148 Consistent Hashing

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149 Python Caches Integers

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150 Fractional Cascading

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151 Copy On Write

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152 Midpoint Insertion Caching Strategy

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153 Fsm Python

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154 Bayesian Average

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155 Sliding Window Ratelimiter

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156 Idf

157 Better Programmer

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158 Python Prompts

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159 Rule 30 Cellular Automata

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160 Function Overloading

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161 Isolation Forest

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162 Image Steganography

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163 Long Integers Python

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164 I Changed My Python

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165 Benchmark And Compare Pagination Approach In Mongodb

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166 Mongodb Cursor Skip Is Slow

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167 Fast And Efficient Pagination In Mongodb

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168 Making Http Requests Using Netcat

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