For some fields and majors, universities serve as little more than an expensive – both in terms of time and money – confirmation of employability in modern times. The educational curricula which mattered to the economy has always been within grad schools that built coursework around accreditation in a particular field (e.g., the law schools, the...
Like most software engineers, I wear an unofficial "IT troubleshooter" hat when I visit the folks over the holidays. They have the classic home computing setup: a handful of Windows PCs hooked up to printers, a wireless router they don't have the admin password to, smartphones that are used basically as...
The year was 2010. We were searching for the next big Facebook app, high off our previous successes. This was when Facebook just released the News Feed, and everything from cute icons to animated fake pets made millions from ad impressions and virtual pet food. People were beginning to understand what "viral" meant...
Most of the people reading this blog are workers whose skills and experience are in demand; we'd all like to think that our time has real value, and that someone using it ought to be paying to use that time. Of course, outside of work, that's a much harder argument to...
Hey, I get it. You're about to graduate as a prestigious computer engineering student from a well-known university, and you have your pick of a dozen companies to begin a career that's been glamorized to revive the economy and make millionaires out of anything remotely close to a tablet or phone....
I've written about how I like Square's pairing interview process: it's hands-on, it allows for a more realistic environment for writing and running code, and it can be a learning experience for both the interviewer and the interviewee. The feedback from our candidates has generally been positive as well....
