A friend of mine bribed me with lunch the other day to talk about transitioning into a web development, or possibly UX role. They laid out their plan, which included building an extensive open source library of tools to use when projects came up. My response was to get the projects, and use them as […]
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4 tips for being better at email introductions
1I do a fair number of email introductions. I hope you do too; if you don’t, consider how you could be helping more people by helping them connect with each other. The company I now work for, IOpipe, is in the Techstars NYC Summer 2016 cohort, and one of the very valuable things I’ve been […]
Troubles with interviews (and their solutions)
0This past week, I’ve conducted six free interview coaching sessions with developers. I offered the 30-minute sessions to subscribers to my list (you can get on that, if you want to be in the loop next time), and used Calendly to schedule the times. Why offer the sessions? I’ve given lots of interview advice (and […]
Please remove “junior” from your developer titles
8I’m against the title “junior developer.” It bothers me on a few levels, and while this is mostly a rant and not as productive as it could be, a conversation on Twitter makes me think it’s still worth writing out. Strongly disliking that we describe engineers with 2 years coding + (a theoretical physics degree […]
Job hunting for developers: Shifting from skills to solving problems
0The hiring process is not borne out of altruism. A hiring manager doesn’t wake up one day and say, “You know, we have a bunch of money sitting around and we’re getting a bit lonely … what if we brought another developer on board?” Bringing someone into a company is a very serious decision that […]
Résumés are garbage, part the second
4In a continuation of my “burn your résumé” theme from last month, I remembered a piece of data I read that I found fascinating. Come with me, on this journey, where we read this chart: Cool chart, right? Let me help: These stats are from a paper highlighted last year by the Harvard Business Review […]