Career
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On Developer Hiring – The Elephant In The Room
The software industry is obsessed with hiring. Every week we get new articles on the topic on how to snag…
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How to Prevent Crying During Your Technical Interview
A recent blog post Technical Interviews Make Me Cry by Pamela Fox tells the personal tale of a technologist and…
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The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About
Hey, you. Yeah, you. Psst. Come over here. I’m going to tell you something that you may not have heard…
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Why You Took The Wrong Job
The decision to join a new employer and the process leading up to the move can be fraught with emotional…
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Recruiters Are Pretty (and How to Find One)
You would need to be blind not to notice that tech recruiting firms are now tending to hire young and…
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Job Hopping For Geeks
I first wrote about the topic of job hopping back in 2007 and I feel the advice I gave then is…
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Why You Can’t Work For Google
Many new entrants to today’s technology job market are obsessed with the handful of high-profile companies that set the trends…
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Why You Didn’t Get The Interview, Part II
In August 2012 I published a blog post Why You Didn’t Get The Interview, which received a good bit of…
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Rethink Career Path
The baby boomer generation probably helped define the image of career path and trajectory for many Gen X and Millennials…
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