Kartikey Sapra’s Post

"Slow" is the fastest way to ship code. I learned this the hard way at Google. I was working on a high-visibility project to migrate a feature to new infrastructure. The deadline was tight. Having worked at Amazon, I was a strong believer in "bias for action". "Ship fast, iterate later" - that was my motto. I built the feature in 2 weeks and launched an A/B test, feeling proud of my speed. That's when all hell broke loose. Multiple edge cases I hadn't considered started causing bugs. Not only did I miss the launch deadline, but I also created weeks of extra work for my entire team. The worst part? All of this could have been avoided if I had just spent 2-3 extra days understanding the feature thoroughly before jumping into implementation. Those "extra" days would have actually saved us weeks of cleanup work. This taught me the most important lesson of my engineering career: Moving fast doesn't mean coding fast. It means thinking deeply first. In Software Engineering, sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. Btw, if you want to prepare for technical interviews more deeply, try my free email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gPjuaY9w

"Slow" is the fastest way to ship code. I learned this the hard way at Google. I was working on a high-visibility project to migrate a feature to new infrastructure. The deadline was tight. Having worked at Amazon, I was a strong believer in "bias for action". "Ship fast, iterate later" - that was my motto. I built the feature in 2 weeks and launched an A/B test, feeling proud of my speed. That's when all hell broke loose. Multiple edge cases I hadn't considered started causing bugs. Not only did I miss the launch deadline, but I also created weeks of extra work for my entire team. The worst part? All of this could have been avoided if I had just spent 2-3 extra days understanding the feature thoroughly before jumping into implementation. Those "extra" days would have actually saved us weeks of cleanup work. This taught me the most important lesson of my engineering career: Moving fast doesn't mean coding fast. It means thinking deeply first. In Software Engineering, sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. Btw, if you want to prepare for technical interviews more deeply, try my free email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gPjuaY9w

"Slow" is the fastest way to ship code. I learned this the hard way at Google. I was working on a high-visibility project to migrate a feature to new infrastructure. The deadline was tight. Having worked at Amazon, I was a strong believer in "bias for action". "Ship fast, iterate later" - that was my motto. I built the feature in 2 weeks and launched an A/B test, feeling proud of my speed. That's when all hell broke loose. Multiple edge cases I hadn't considered started causing bugs. Not only did I miss the launch deadline, but I also created weeks of extra work for my entire team. The worst part? All of this could have been avoided if I had just spent 2-3 extra days understanding the feature thoroughly before jumping into implementation. Those "extra" days would have actually saved us weeks of cleanup work. This taught me the most important lesson of my engineering career: Moving fast doesn't mean coding fast. It means thinking deeply first. In Software Engineering, sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. Btw, if you want to prepare for technical interviews more deeply, try my free email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gPjuaY9w

"Slow" is the fastest way to ship code. I learned this the hard way at Google. I was working on a high-visibility project to migrate a feature to new infrastructure. The deadline was tight. Having worked at Amazon, I was a strong believer in "bias for action". "Ship fast, iterate later" - that was my motto. I built the feature in 2 weeks and launched an A/B test, feeling proud of my speed. That's when all hell broke loose. Multiple edge cases I hadn't considered started causing bugs. Not only did I miss the launch deadline, but I also created weeks of extra work for my entire team. The worst part? All of this could have been avoided if I had just spent 2-3 extra days understanding the feature thoroughly before jumping into implementation. Those "extra" days would have actually saved us weeks of cleanup work. This taught me the most important lesson of my engineering career: Moving fast doesn't mean coding fast. It means thinking deeply first. In Software Engineering, sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. Btw, if you want to prepare for technical interviews more deeply, try my free email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gPjuaY9w

"Slow" is the fastest way to ship code. I learned this the hard way at Google. I was working on a high-visibility project to migrate a feature to new infrastructure. The deadline was tight. Having worked at Amazon, I was a strong believer in "bias for action". "Ship fast, iterate later" - that was my motto. I built the feature in 2 weeks and launched an A/B test, feeling proud of my speed. That's when all hell broke loose. Multiple edge cases I hadn't considered started causing bugs. Not only did I miss the launch deadline, but I also created weeks of extra work for my entire team. The worst part? All of this could have been avoided if I had just spent 2-3 extra days understanding the feature thoroughly before jumping into implementation. Those "extra" days would have actually saved us weeks of cleanup work. This taught me the most important lesson of my engineering career: Moving fast doesn't mean coding fast. It means thinking deeply first. In Software Engineering, sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. Btw, if you want to prepare for technical interviews more deeply, try my free email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gPjuaY9w

"Slow" is the fastest way to ship code. I learned this the hard way at Google. I was working on a high-visibility project to migrate a feature to new infrastructure. The deadline was tight. Having worked at Amazon, I was a strong believer in "bias for action". "Ship fast, iterate later" - that was my motto. I built the feature in 2 weeks and launched an A/B test, feeling proud of my speed. That's when all hell broke loose. Multiple edge cases I hadn't considered started causing bugs. Not only did I miss the launch deadline, but I also created weeks of extra work for my entire team. The worst part? All of this could have been avoided if I had just spent 2-3 extra days understanding the feature thoroughly before jumping into implementation. Those "extra" days would have actually saved us weeks of cleanup work. This taught me the most important lesson of my engineering career: Moving fast doesn't mean coding fast. It means thinking deeply first. In Software Engineering, sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. Btw, if you want to prepare for technical interviews more deeply, try my free email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gPjuaY9w

"Slow" is the fastest way to ship code. I learned this the hard way at Google. I was working on a high-visibility project to migrate a feature to new infrastructure. The deadline was tight. Having worked at Amazon, I was a strong believer in "bias for action". "Ship fast, iterate later" - that was my motto. I built the feature in 2 weeks and launched an A/B test, feeling proud of my speed. That's when all hell broke loose. Multiple edge cases I hadn't considered started causing bugs. Not only did I miss the launch deadline, but I also created weeks of extra work for my entire team. The worst part? All of this could have been avoided if I had just spent 2-3 extra days understanding the feature thoroughly before jumping into implementation. Those "extra" days would have actually saved us weeks of cleanup work. This taught me the most important lesson of my engineering career: Moving fast doesn't mean coding fast. It means thinking deeply first. In Software Engineering, sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. Btw, if you want to prepare for technical interviews more deeply, try my free email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gPjuaY9w

"Slow" is the fastest way to ship code. I learned this the hard way at Google. I was working on a high-visibility project to migrate a feature to new infrastructure. The deadline was tight. Having worked at Amazon, I was a strong believer in "bias for action". "Ship fast, iterate later" - that was my motto. I built the feature in 2 weeks and launched an A/B test, feeling proud of my speed. That's when all hell broke loose. Multiple edge cases I hadn't considered started causing bugs. Not only did I miss the launch deadline, but I also created weeks of extra work for my entire team. The worst part? All of this could have been avoided if I had just spent 2-3 extra days understanding the feature thoroughly before jumping into implementation. Those "extra" days would have actually saved us weeks of cleanup work. This taught me the most important lesson of my engineering career: Moving fast doesn't mean coding fast. It means thinking deeply first. In Software Engineering, sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. Btw, if you want to prepare for technical interviews more deeply, try my free email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gPjuaY9w