Software Engineer - Software Engineer (SRE)

DO NOT build a startup !

Seriously. Don't. Unless you enjoy sleep deprivation, eating investor rejections for breakfast, and explaining to your family why you're still broke after "launching something big." Don't build a startup if your idea came to you in the shower and you haven't talked to a single user. Don't build a startup because TechCrunch made it look cool. Don't build a startup because your friend raised \$3M and now you think you should too. Spoiler: they'll still raise more, burn it faster, and crash harder. Building a startup means watching everything break product, team, confidence, and still showing up the next day. It means hiring people who are smarter than you, then wondering why they don't listen to you. It means customers ghosting you, investors grilling you, and competitors copying you all at once. And if all that sounds fun to you? Then maybe, just maybe, you should build a startup. But please, do it because you have to. Because the problem keeps you up at night. Not because you want to be "a founder" on LinkedIn. This isn't a flex. It's a war zone. Good luck out there.

Switching from Investment Banking to Consulting

Hi everyone, I am currently working as an IB analyst (front end) in a boutique shop. Our core focus is equity and debt funding in the startup space (seed to series b usually). Its been an year since I have joined and I am looking to switch. Joining a mid market or a bigger boutique shop makes more sense by the book and I have some connections for the same but I have been really interested in management consultancy and want to give it a shot before MBA. The thing is, I graduated from a tier 2 private college and most of the consultancy firms I know of give a huge importance to pedigree and prefer hiring from tier-1 institutes. Does it make sense for me to try getting in through referrals or is it smarter to aim for this post MBA. And to begin with, do I even stand a chance to get into some good consultancy firm?

BigData- How does data parsing happen in your company?

Hi community, Context: In my current company, we have a data-pipeline, which in short works like this: we get raw events from Kafka dumped in S3. We run a batch job (Airflow), this job essentially picks up the raw jsons in s3, enforces data parser logic (we have a service written in python where we explicitly define what attributed we want from raw json, these attributes are accordingly parsed), the parsed data is then converted to CSV/parquet formats and dumped in s3 in another folder and later loaded into tables, which is used for analytics, etc. Problem: Today for every new event we generate, we have to write a parser logic from scratch, if the event structure is different. In case of small changes we can update attributes we want to parse in code itself. But post that we have to deploy changes which takes time. Is there a smarter way of doing it? For example, having a UI interface, where we select the attributes from json (that could include nested attributes), and that is parsed and dumped in s3, later loading happens. And if we want to update parser, we can do so from UI itself than going into code updating things, deploying, etc. Do we have any open source alternatives here? Or any good engineering blogs which has covered such/similar scenario?