job hunting
- A zero bullshit reality check about layoffs
- The best way to apply for a job is through a referral
- The hardest part of finding a new job isn’t the interview
- If you claim to be an expert at something, you’d better be able to back it up
- Start 2019 with actionable advice for students, job seekers, happy employees, and hackers
- Take-home assignments prove that you can do the job
- Two things to look for when interviewing potential hires
- Use the rest of 2018 to prepare for your 2019 job hunt
- If you join a company because you love its culture, be prepared for it to change
- Get over quitter’s remorse and new job jitters
- How my friend negotiated a higher salary and better start date
- How long can you afford to look for a job?
- Idolizing Steve Jobs won’t get you a job, but networking will
- Your past expertise can be an advantage during a career change
- A masterclass in job hunting from a high schooler
- Don’t judge a company by its cubicles
- A simple way to keep your résumé up to date
- You might not care about your title, but recruiters do
- Do’s and Don’ts of professional references
- Seperate the must haves from the nice to haves
- HR reps & hiring managers aren’t that interested in your GitHub profile
- How to put hackathons on your résumé
- What should you wear to a job interview?
- If you want to get paid more, prove that you’re delivering value
- Nobody hires in December, but you can lay the groundwork for next year
- Smart questions to ask during interviews
- CEO Accessibility vs. Visibility
- Use information asymmetry to your advantage
- How to demonstrate initiative
- How to get past gatekeepers
- You can’t fix a company’s culture by yourself
- Before you dive into a salary negotiation, read this
- Write cover letters & résumés that get noticed
- Practice your whiteboard test skills with the Battleship problem
- Six steps for surviving a layoff, from someone who did
- You can wait around for recruiters to contact you, or you can be proactive and pursue the dream job you want
- Following up isn’t just a good idea, it’s a requirement
- Freshen up your résumé, portfolio, and network this weekend
education
work
- Call an audible with a lateral move
- The hacker mindset is a powerful, but double-edged sword
- Should you buy your stock options when you quit?
- What’s the difference between a reorg and a pivot?
- Nobody starts out as an expert at anything
- Take ownership of your product, even if you’re not the Product Owner
- Are you ready for your semi-annual review?
- How do you bring new hires up to speed?
- How to build & utilize trust and social capital at work
- Validate your product ideas before marketing them
- Start 2019 with actionable advice for students, job seekers, happy employees, and hackers
- Two things to look for when interviewing potential hires
- Three short emails that’ll help you make money, hire, and keep clients happy
- If you join a company because you love its culture, be prepared for it to change
- Get over quitter’s remorse and new job jitters
- Lazy programmers can save their teams a lot of time and money
- Management is one way to advance your career, but it’s not quick, easy, or stress free
- 5 steps for a productive weekly retrospective meeting
- Developers work in sprints, but your colleagues operate on different time scales
- Interns, take advantage of your ‘exit interview’
- A primer on workers’ compensation
- Do more with less using timeboxes
- Get back into work mode after your vacation
- You can’t avoid meetings, but you can make them suck less
- You might not care about your title, but recruiters do
- Today’s code is tomorrow’s technical debt
- A new hire pro tip from the New York Fire Department
- What are the next 5 bullet points you want on your résumé?
- Don’t pigeonhole yourself to one tech, language, or job role
- How To Suggest New Product Features
- Talking to your boss on a regular basis is 100% a positive career move
- Things to think about before you start freelancing
- If you want to get paid more, prove that you’re delivering value
- How resilient is your company to a major service outage?
- Your code’s legacy is what it enabled
- Try empathizing with your manager
- Everything you do as a developer requires trust
- CEO Accessibility vs. Visibility
- Not everything you work on is going to be ‘high’ technology, and that’s OK
- Why is a modern tech company using an outdated stack?
- You can’t fix a company’s culture by yourself
- Focus too much on incremental gains and you’ll miss the truly transformative ones
- Software Development is about solving other people’s problems
- Capital Rules Everything Around Me
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