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I'd rather see the increase of job security for developers that are lagging behind, and an increased quantity of accelerator and returnship programs for developers across all sorts…

Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Depends on the opportunity Technologies: PHP, Ruby on Rails, MVC frameworks, JavaScript, Node.js, C#/.NET, MySQL, SQLit…

I'm trying to get some idea at how old is usually the target for financial independence and how much does it actually depend on your current age if you haven't started your investm…

It sounds like a sad story. PHP's specialization is in rendering dynamic web pages. It was its ONLY purpose (ignoring niche projects like GTK bindings, etc). And yet even against g…

Re: getting your foot in with interviews. Mileage really varies here. I agree with you that getting an interview is very luck-based. I have no contacts in FAANG that would be stron…

There's a different "knowledge" problem that must be tackled here. Someone can form a cognitive bias from only being exposed to a few ways to solve a problem. Maybe it's because th…

And is it unusual or bad if I don't? I've been advised by some people that I should keep at least a Google document to list accomplishments and to update on a regular basis, as I w…

In the decade of 2000's we saw a plethora of graphical interfaces being used for web site and server management. We had Plesk, cPanel and WHM come into widespread use. To spin up a…

They must be willing to eat their own dog food or else the question won't make any sense for the interview. The department should run the interviews through their own employees fir…

>"Take home" questions are heavily biased in favor of the employer because they're not required to put anything on the line. Not to mention it doesn't test the collaboration aspect…

> People easily identify that white-boarding interviews suck for more than just the interviewee. And yet any time a solution is proposed that involves doing something other than pu…

I have no experience with modern cloud services, professional or otherwise. I come from simple webdev for small scale apps work, involving small business clients. My experience man…

I haven't gotten many answers to this question, but most tend to lean that they are not tech companies. The prevailing attitude towards them is that they don't treat their develope…

It's kind of a blessing in disguise that we live in the heaviest terrestrial planet in the solar system. It's like learning how to climb by starting with the most difficult mountai…

I think modern PHP has improved in strides, and now isn't much worse than JavaScript. While it's not my first language of choice to go to anymore, I liked working with it. I didn't…

In most of my career, I've taught myself many programming concepts and different languages based on what I started out with. I'm comfortable with design patterns, many algorithms, …

I frequently hear about interview books that are aimed at various kinds of tech companies and top startups. But if your resume isn't up to par, you won't get the chance to intervie…

Side question: How is relocation going to work (for the larger companies) when shelter-in-place is in effect?

A situation like this one may actually speed up the need for many business to digitize their business models.

I try to use referrals whenever I can. A few years ago got one which lead to two on-site interviews. Lately though people have been giving me the cold shoulder on LinkedIn or email…

I'm not concluding that it's simply ageism, because this is feedback I'm getting from mock interviews, not real ones. Professionals tend to be more honest and open about how you in…

I live in Chicago, and will email you soon.

If I consistently fail interviews then it's reasonable for me to conclude that I really could be an imposter. But I have gotten interviews from many places small and big, including…