India, March 2 -- A Bengaluru-based techie has offered a candid glimpse into life inside one of the world's biggest technology companies. Diksha Aggarwal, who is a software engineer at Google, recently shared a reflective Instagram post marking the completion of her first year at the company, listing 12 lessons she is carrying into Year 2.

"Most people see the perks, but the real value is in the engineering culture," she wrote, before sharing the 12 lessons she learnt at the tech giant in the past year. First, she emphasised that writing simple, readable code is far more challenging and valuable than being "clever". "Being 'clever' is a trap-simple, readable code is much harder to write but much better to own," she wrote.

Aggarwal then ...