Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer

Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them

Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them luminousmen Apr 21, 2026 1,633 14 197 Share A few years ago, a data engineer on r/ExperiencedDevs got drunk and wrote down everything he learned in 10 years of engineering. The original account is deleted, but the post captures something real — the kind of honesty you only get after a few glasses of wine. Preserving it here, typos and all. Contains the language you’d expect from someone who opened with ‘I’m drunk’. I’m drunk and I’ll probably regret this, but here’s a drunken rank of

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