Day in the Life of a .NET Engineer: Insights
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Early-career .NET engineer profile: three plus years on the .NET runtime Diagnostics team working on debugging the debugger and implementing venting, tracing and the debugger hooks used by Visual Studio and VS Code, inside a 20-year-old C/C++ runtime codebase. Onboarding involves learning C and runtime data structures, using Co-pilot for quick checks, and lots of pair debugging. Interview path was internship to full-time (started July 2021) after whiteboard pseudo-code and remote coding rounds practiced via HackerRank / LeetCode and a coding interview book.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:42How long have you been a developer
- 1:32How did you learn to code
- 2:26What does your day look like
- 3:57What did you learn along the way
- 6:34What skills have been helpful
- 11:03Interview process
- 13:16Interview preparation
- 16:00Advice for someone learning CNet
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