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I’m currently applying for a master’s degree in computer science (MSCS). I thought I might share my experience here for other people in the same boat as me. My boat is that I’m a …
One must imagine Sisyphus practicing leetcode mediums...
If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I going to make it to the next level?
Part One of a series on how I came to be writing for O’reilly, and what the process is like
GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij shares 12 steps that managers can take to help employees avoid burnout.
Brendan@Intel.com
Sometimes you see a headline or a Youtube video “How I got into tech without a C.S.
A report of my positive and negative experiences with Go after using it for 6 months at work.
This article is available as Korean- (thanks to longfin ) and Chineese- (thanks to webup ) translation.
This is my personal story of starting the SRE organization at Uber. If you want advice rather than reminiscence, take a look at Trunk and Branches Model and Productivity in the age of hypergrowth. After I left SocialCode in 2014, I spent a month interviewing at a handful of companies trying to figure out what to do…
Whenever I advise (or join!) a startup, one of the first conversations goes something like this: "Oh man. Everything here is broken! It sucks! There's so much to do and not enough people to do it. We're missing so many things, we don't know where to start! The product needs so much work. Marketing needs
Have you (or your company) tried repeatedly to hire for Role X?
Software developer based in Montréal, Canada
Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…
I was on the job market recently, open to suggestions on what I should do next. I'm deeply thankful to all those who reached out and pitched their companies, and also to people who shared their wisdom of how they wanted to navigate their own careers.
Work with amazing people you love collaborating with, the rest (mission, purpose, etc) falls out from that.
More than 2 years ago, I decided to try to create a brief, digestible manual on the expectations of management for senior engineers at my company who are considering making the shift. At the time, …
A while ago I took up the challenge to get Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE) certified. During this journey I learned many awesome things. The most important lesson learned was that with source code and a debugger, I could find vulnerabilities exponentially faster than by using traditional Blackbox/Bug-Bounty…
I've been interviewing engineers for a while now, and it seems the more interviews I do, the more I realize how many my initial assumptions about hiring were wrong. For example, take resumes. Initially, before every interview I'd carefully review resumes. I'd look at candidate's past
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
I am really, really into cooking. In the heady days of 2016 I regularly threw dinner parties for 30+ people. These days I don't hate myself that much, but...
Somewhere between 15 and 20 years ago, I worked for a company. It was a very prestigious company, and it was a glorious and frustrating time. The company did amazing things. Literally unbelievable achievements - from my point of view anyway. But this was coupled with levels of chaos that led
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Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest explains why all startup founders need to stay mentally, emotionally, and physically fit.
