A friend of mine recently joined a FAANG company as an engineering manager, and found themselves in the position of recruiting for engineering candidates.
We caught up.
Sometimes I feel like I lucked into this industry — and I didn’t start learning most of what I needed to know until I started getting paid for the job.
Search for “Day in the life of a software engineer” on YouTube, and you’ll find many glimpses of free food, beautiful workspaces, snack breaks, and pleasant after-work cityscapes.
Write a function that takes in a function and returns a promise.
Someone asked me to share about my experiences pair programming over the last 8 or so years — including the times it’s been successful, my thoughts about why it was successful, and the times it was a failure.
A little while ago, an engineer scheduled an early morning meeting on my calendar.