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One of our interviews is a technical design question that asks the candidate to design a web-based system for public libraries. It explicitly tests for how simple they can keep it,…

Working with Shopify is an example of something where a good mental model of how it works under the hood is often required. This type of mistake, not realising that the tag is adde…

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Would Stripe's Connect work for you? They have all the tools for setting up a platform that onboards merchants, takes payments on their behalf and pays them out. You can sign up an…

This is how our team does it as well. We are 5 engineers at a startup, so inbound support tickets that need to be turned around fairly urgently are common. Having one person dedica…

I think type checking helps with that both directly and indirectly. It helps directly by making it much easier to know what type or shape everything is. Without types, all you have…

You say 30 mins isn't enough for deep dives. Can you change from 30 mins every week to 60 mins every two weeks to allow more time for in-depth discussions?

What makes Daspoll different from to the many other existing survey products? It's not clear from the website how it's better compared to e.g. Typeform.

Good advice. But instead of having an entitlements _system_ and API calls passing through multiple different services returning lists of features a customer is entitled to, you can…

Not everywhere is like that. Smart small companies will eschew this unnecessary complexity to get more done with less. For example, we have deliberately stuck with a single Node.js…

I started my career in a startup and had a similar FOMO, always thinking that the big corps have figured out all these problems we were struggling with, hoping I can one day learn …

Don't. Use a PaaS like Heroku, hook it up to your GitHub and a CI platform. Get your database hosted on Heroku or somewhere similar - plenty exists for anything you might need (Pos…

Yes, kind of like training, except it doesn't have a set agenda like a training session would, but is instead rooted in the circumstances of what's going on at that time. Any quest…

In practise, doesn't increasing the coverage highly correlate with increasing the test suite size, therefore proving the effectiveness? Conversely, I struggle to think how coverage…

I don't think 1:1s have to be weekly as a hard rule, but it's a good starting point. If bi-weekly works for you and your reports, do that. However I would argue that 1:1 is the one…

A lot of this seems like things that could be cut. 1.5h every day on post-mortem meetings stands out as the obvious time sink – does the organisation really have that many producti…

Shared Slack channels. We're an early stage e-commerce startup selling mainly to medium sizes companies, and one thing that's worked incredibly well is setting up a shared Slack ch…

You should absolutely do it. Chances are the startup won't be successful, but it's a life experience you won't regret having. Start building something on the side, and make sure yo…

At Purple Dot (waitlisting platform for e-commerce), we use Stripe. Not sure which Stripe product you are using exactly, but with Stripe Connect it is possible to pay out people in…

This essay feels really dishonest. It tries to simplify the vastly complex problem of income inequality, on which there is a sea of existing, detailed research, into a simple "it's…

Being a good manager is a skill like any other, something you have to learn. In the industry, being someone's line manager and looking after their wellbeing and professional develo…