Scott JohnsonTen Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering RoleI recently went on a search for a new full time gig and I learned that today’s job search is not what it used to be. Here’s the quick…Apr 30, 2018Apr 30, 2018
Scott JohnsonTech Interviewing is Broken — A SuggestionSo Medium this morning tells me that person X is following me, I forget who — that was on my phone and I’m writing on my laptop. I try and…Dec 18, 2016Dec 18, 2016
Scott JohnsonNative Apps Are Not DoomedSo there was a meme that went around a week ago that I meant to jump on but, well, database crash and my life was subsumed into disaster…Nov 29, 2016Nov 29, 2016
Scott JohnsonWhere Startups Get It Wrong — What We Know from Software Engineering ResearchI never fail to be amazed by the very basic aspects of software engineering that startups get wrong. And we’re not talking a little bit…Aug 28, 2016Aug 28, 2016
Scott JohnsonMy Hiring Criteria This Go AroundOnce again I find myself looking for engineering talent. Hiring technical staff is never easy so I thought it might be best to enumerate a…Aug 16, 2016Aug 16, 2016
Scott JohnsonGiving in And Moving To AWS or You Won Jeff Barr, You WonI’m pretty sure that the year was 2008 and I was flying out of the Indianapolis airport to San Francisco where I ran into Jeff Barr…Aug 12, 2016Aug 12, 2016
Scott JohnsonWhen You Can’t Close the Salary Gap on a New HireI recently found myself needing to hire (obligatory plug: we have a spot for a remote work position with Ruby / Rails / Elixir as the skill…Aug 5, 2016Aug 5, 2016