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The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025

Interview processes are changing in a tech market that’s both cooling AND heating up at the same time. A deepdive with Hello Interview founders, Evan…

Apr 1 •

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What is Growth Engineering?

A deep dive into the field of growth engineering, which is often positioned between product engineering and marketing. With former head of growth…

Mar 20 •

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Alexey Komissarouk

Robotics for software engineers

What does it take to build and program robots? A look into the exciting, increasingly popular field of robotics. Guest post by humanoid robot expert…

Feb 25 •

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How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths

A field guide that also covers why we need to rethink our expectations, and what software engineering really is. A guest post by software engineer and…

Jan 5 •

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How to become a more effective engineer

The importance of soft skills, implicit hierarchies, getting to “small wins”, understanding promotion processes and more. A guest post from software…

Nov 5, 2024 •

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Cindy Sridharan

Software engineers training software engineers

What is it like to teach software engineers, full time? Reuven M. Lerner has done this for 15 years, and shares his hands-on learnings – including how…

Sep 24, 2024 •

Paying down tech debt

A guide for reducing tech debt effectively, and how to develop a mindset that welcomes the short-term benefits of eliminating it. A guest post by…

Sep 3, 2024 •

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What is Security Engineering? Part 2.

A broad overview of the ever-developing security engineering field; a domain that can feel intimidating to some software engineers. With Nielet D'Mello…

Apr 30, 2024 •

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What is Security Engineering? Part 1.

A deep dive into the ever-changing field of security engineering; a domain that can feel intimidating to some software engineers. With Nielet D'Mello…

Apr 16, 2024 •

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Thriving as a Founding Engineer: Lessons from the Trenches

Being a founding engineer at an early-stage startup is a vastly different, broader role than many people think. Lessons from “serial” early-stage and…

Mar 26, 2024 •

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The Past and Future of Modern Backend Practices

From monoliths to microservices and beyond with Joshua Burgin; tech industry veteran and one of Amazon’s first 100 employees

Nov 21, 2023 •

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Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey

The consulting firm came up with a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and…

Aug 29, 2023 •

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