I don’t like interviewing for a new job. Mind you, I’ve had 6 jobs already, so I’ve done my fair share, but I dislike the adversarial tones that the vast majority of these interviews take on almost immediately. Hell, I’ve conducted interviews in every single one of my jobs, and while...
I’ve been having a back-and-forth with a friend on getting a software developer job in Japan. Cultural differences aside – and there are quite a few – we reached an impasse in debating how to approach a software engineering design question within the context of an interview. To summarize, he wants to find the right study...
I recently did an interview with Talentbuddy. They're a mentorship program that looks to get people started on full-stack web development in about three months time, and wanted me to speak to our front-end technologies at Square, specifically on our decision to use the Ember.js framework and our lessons learned. I was...
I've written plenty of front-end opinions and experiences on this blog over the years, around: * Defining them * Getting them * Growing them * Promoting them I've spent a good amount of time thinking about the role, the specialization and how the field would mature over time. So when I read this post on...
One difference I've noticed between those new to the software industry and those who've been around the block a few times is how selective they are about their jobs. Consequently, a piece of advice I've taken up to giving new and recent grads is to look beyond the cool...
One thing that's inevitable in a growing software company is that engineers are tasked with the chore of interviews, and I've done more than my fair share of talking with candidates through technical problems and projects they've done and why leave a company and how systems should work. I...
