Wei Zhang
Distinguished Eng, Acme
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What's one small habit that compounded the most over your career?
Writing a one-paragraph summary after every meeting. It forced clarity and quietly became a searchable record of every decision we made.
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What's the most underrated skill for a senior engineer that nobody teaches?
Knowing what not to build. Great seniors delete tickets, push back on requirements, and find the version of the problem that's 80% of the value for 20% of the system. Juniors optimize the solution; seniors optimize the problem.
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For a small team, is a monorepo worth the tooling overhead?
At four engineers, the monorepo wins for a boring reason: one place to clone, one CI config, atomic changes across both services. You don't have the scale that makes the overhead hurt yet.
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