soft skills

I have the good fortune to have a job right now, but many of my friends are out of work. Most have been searching for a while. Some are encountering a problem that has my full sympathy, something I’ve experienced myself at various times. I’m not sure I can solve it, but maybe I can help put words to what some are going through.

You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

I once had a job interview for a backend position. Their stack was Node.js, MySQL, nothing exotic. The interviewer asked: "If you have an array containing a million entries, how would you sort the dat

Ibrahim Diallo

How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction

A study of Google's code review tooling, AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics. Critique, "Modern Code Review at Google," and various Google software engineering papers.

Engineer’s Codex

@chrlschn - Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead

In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical candidates (was it ever)?

Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions

Too many applicants are screened out because they don’t fit a particular pattern.

Nilofer Merchant