BKBinay Kumar Dasinfindcoffeemate.hashnode.dev·Sep 7 · 2 min readThe Code Review Question I Didn’t Expect in a Frontend InterviewIn a recent frontend interview, I was expecting the usual questions. React.JavaScript.Performance.Maybe some system design. Instead, the interviewer gave me a small piece of code and asked: “What wou00
BKBinay Kumar Dasinfindcoffeemate.hashnode.dev·Sep 1 · 8 min readPreparing for a Product Company Interview? Don’t Prepare Only for the Coding Round.When preparing for a software engineering interview, it’s easy to spend most of your time solving coding problems. Arrays. Strings. Promises. Closures. Data structures. Algorithms. These are important00
BKBinay Kumar Dasinfindcoffeemate.hashnode.dev·Aug 21 · 3 min readThe Feature Had Zero Bugs. We Removed It AnywayA few week ago, I am building a feature for my Product FindCoffeeMate. It was called “Recently Active Developers.” The idea sounded great. When users landed on the homepage, they’d immediately see dev00
BKBinay Kumar Dasinfindcoffeemate.hashnode.dev·Aug 18 · 4 min readA Frontend Can Handle 10,000 Users and Still Fail at 1 MillionA frontend can work perfectly with 10,000 users and completely fall apart at 1 million. The problem usually isn’t React. It’s the decisions we make around it. I’ve seen this happen with dashboards and00
BKBinay Kumar Dasinfindcoffeemate.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 5 min readI Thought Email Verification Was Just Sending an OTP. Building It Changed My Mind.A few weeks ago, I added "Email Verification" to the FindCoffeeMate 2.0 backlog. It was sitting there between "fix the profile photo cropper" and "add dark mode." I remember looking at it and thinking00