Career
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I’m Not Good Enough (Hope They Don’t Find Out)
“Man, I am in over my head! Everyone here is so much smarter than I am. Hope they don’t find…
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Embrace your weirdness and stop worrying
Once you’ve reached the point where you’re a proficient programmer with a good understanding of a useful tech stack, you’re…
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Salaries and Job Offerings Categorized by Programming Language
The Paysa Blog recently featured a post Silicon Valley’s Most Valuable Skills in which they looked at the most valuable…
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We Love Older Programmers
I was on the phone yesterday with a senior level hiring manager from a potential new client, and she said…
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Negotiation for Contract-To-Hire Jobs
I was recently asked a question on Reddit about a specific contract-to-hire (C2H) scenario that I hadn’t given much thought…
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Agents for Software Developers, Revisited
A few recent Reddit and Hacker News posts alluded to the idea of agents in the world of software. If…
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Show (Don’t Tell) Me That You Haven’t Stopped Learning
Whether through my recruiting work or my resume writing and coaching, I frequently review resumes that lead off with some kind of…
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Undersell and Overdeliver
This week I received a multi-paragraph email from a job applicant who was applying for a developer position I had…
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The Perfect Resume
Between my “Worst Resume of the Week” series being published over the past couple months and my continuing work reviewing…
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