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Alex Allain

How to get your first internship in tech

Having interned at a well known tech company is a major plus that will help you stand out and get the next internship. But what if you…

Oct 13, 2019

Oct 13, 2019

What I’ve learned interviewing 500 people: the interviewer skills ladder for high growth software…

It’s possible that the only thing engineers hate more than a nasty bug is interviewing. Interviews are interruptions from deep work…

Aug 15, 2019

Aug 15, 2019

What it feels like to deposit a gold bar into your experience piggy bank

You just deleted a production database. Fck. Fck. Fck. You should have been more careful. Fck. This is not going to be a good day — or…

May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

Ten More Minutes

Can working on multiple small projects in ten minute daily chunks really work?

May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

The empathy machine

The empathy machine was tired. Each client brought their own suffering, dumping their unhappiness into it one miserable story at a time…

Feb 16, 2019

Feb 16, 2019

Without a doubt

The machine was happy. It was always happy. That was its job, and it was proud of its work.

Feb 10, 2019

Feb 10, 2019

How to remember what you read

Most nonfiction, most of the time, will be forgotten in weeks. A book you read a year ago, directly relevant to your present circumstances…

Jan 25, 2019

How to remember what you read

Jan 25, 2019

Ten minutes a day

In early 2012, I published Jumping into C++. According to the calendar, I wrote the book between January 2010 to January 2012, but it took…

Jan 15, 2019

Jan 15, 2019

Alex Allain

Alex Allain

CTO @ U.S. Digital Response; ex-Dropbox; Creator: cprogramming.com, Author: Jumping into C++; C-host decodingsalespodcast.com

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