Faiz Hameed

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My thoughts on engineering, product development, and career growth.

How I Built My Reputation as a Software Engineer: 3 Key Steps That Led to Google

August 15, 2024

How I Built My Reputation as a Software Engineer: 3 Key Steps That Led to Google

How I Built My Reputation as a Software Engineer: 3 Key Steps That Led to Google — A Beginner’s GuidePersonally, these steps were key in helping me land a software engineering role at Google. Im talki...

From Mechanical Engineering to Google: A Self-Taught Engineer’s Guide to Cracking the Google…

April 23, 2023

From Mechanical Engineering to Google: A Self-Taught Engineer’s Guide to Cracking the Google…

From Mechanical Engineering to Google: A Self-Taught Engineer’s Guide to Cracking the Google InterviewPhoto by Joshua Earle on UnsplashThis piece of writing to respond to the numerous inquiries I rece...

November 17, 2021

Open the lock problem with JavaScript

You have a lock in front of you with 4 circular wheels. Each wheel has 10 slots: '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9'. The wheels can rotate freely and wrap around: for example we can turn...

Redux-Saga with React -  Fetching from Geolocation API

October 29, 2020

Redux-Saga with React - Fetching from Geolocation API

Redux-Saga with React - Fetching from Geolocation APIGeolocation works just as an asynchronous call. It's fairly simple to fetch it and store it in the component state with react. With redux-saga, you...

Redux with React for Complete Beginners

May 17, 2020

Redux with React for Complete Beginners

Photo by Umberto on UnsplashWhen I was beginning with react it was a little bit hard to get around with redux state management. I failed interviews because I couldn’t explain well how this works. And ...

August 29, 2019

JavaScript solution for odd occurrences in an array

JavaScript solution for Odd Occurrences In an ArrayThis is the codility problem in Lesson #2.1A non-empty array A consisting of N integers is given. The array contains an odd number of elements, and e...

How I transitioned from Mechanical Engineering into Web Developer Full Time

July 29, 2019

How I transitioned from Mechanical Engineering into Web Developer Full Time

Photo by Christopher Gower on UnsplashUnarguably Mechanical Engineering is one of the best fields of engineering to pursue. But the taste and passion can be different for people. But every decision yo...