Posts by Allen Cheung
Best. Autocomplete. Ever.
During a recent role-playing portion of our interview training session at Square, I was trying to come up with a caricature of an interviewing engineer attempting to impress my counterpart across the table. I ended up embellishing upon my…
The Hard Thing about Hard Things
There aren't that many good articles on management in a technology company, and even less good books that go into much detail[1]. Square's leadership courses reference High Output Management, written by the president of Intel…
The Cleanliness and Messiness of a Computing Workspace
The design magazine available in Flipboard is a bedtime guilty pleasure. There's something surreal about flipping through the architectural creativity exhibited in many of the living and housing feeds, the condos and homes that are built as showpieces…
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Whiffies. A silly name for a foreboding concept. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a book with a few concepts ahead of its time. It takes place in a time when resources are effectively unlimited[1], where it…
Tech Leads, Managers, and the Hybrid in Between
The software engineer's career path is pretty straight forward at most companies. Starting at the intern or new grad level, there's essentially a number of levels to progress through, each adding some amount of responsibility and…
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Random Walk is the classic investment tome. I have been meaning to get through it for a while now, but I've only recently had a chance to read through its timeless advice. I guess I really shouldn'…
