Maybe it's hiring season, but I had a particularly bad day today fending off tech recruiters. I count: * 4 LinkedIn requests * 2 random emails[1] * 2 3 unsolicited cold calls Sadly, the increasing volume of spam no longer even constitutes as humblebragging; when non-existent engineers get enough attention to produce some pretty interesting...
Having been in the industry now for 8+ years, I learned some time ago that a colleague's school and degree become less relevant over time, that great developers come from all backgrounds, that engineering ability is not correlated with a choice of study made a decade past. Though a university's seal...
Lately, I've been reflecting on my software engineering career as a software engineer. I've had the privilege of working with some truly exceptional developers, and while most of them weren't great teachers[1], they nonetheless impart lessons through action and behavior. Engineering talent is hard to find, and – to...
I was pleasantly informed by one of our new Squares yesterday that some of my writing had helped him with his interviews at Square and front-end web development in general. Here are some relevant links that may be useful to those looking to land a job as a front-end engineer: The Corner Why We Pair...
If it's not evident already, I think and write a lot about the interview and hiring process for engineers at software companies. Getting good people in the door, verifying their greatness, and then convincing them to your cause is actually a difficult problem for everybody involved; most engineers loathe the interview process, both...
I guess it was inevitable that software developers let the current talent crunch get into their heads. Recruiters continue to spam anyone who can slap two lines of code together, so developers are feeling pretty good about job prospects; we puff out our chests a bit more, point at the other offers available, and ask...
