What I learned from ByteDance
I recently had the pleasure of joining Databricks, but I often reflect on my profoundly rewarding experience at ByteDance. Before joining ByteDance, I was a software engineer who had written code for a decade. My core responsibility was to tackle system design and code development for complex software while ensuring robust operations in production environments. At ByteDance, however, I led a 16-person technical team (mostly Senior+ engineers) responsible for building the competitiveness of ByteDance’s public cloud EMR open-source engines—a role that was immensely challenging yet transformative for me. Through this article, I want to share what I gained from working at ByteDance. ...