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Which MongoDB browser or admin tool are you referring to? I haven't seen this design in practice using MongoDB Atlas or Compass, but would hope for an "Are you really sure?" confir…

In the example interview schedule in your blog post there's only an hour allocated for BYO project discussion. Is that representative of your typical interview schedule? The scope …

Your candidate-focused interview process is very inspiring! I really like the "bring your own project" idea and it also looks like you've cleverly integrated your product into the …

According to the page edit history, this humorous article was created in 2004 and has continued to evolve since then with 400+ edits (including updated stats for 2020). I often des…

Great Ball Contraption (GBC) is a standard for building modular Rube Goldberg machines that continuously move LEGO soccer balls or basketballs from one GBC in-basket to the next us…

I disagree that these examples are a waste of time. In all cases you benefit from having created the code to address your own use case, but perhaps don't see further direct benefit…

If you are going to use public commit profiles as part of your screening process and hiring decisions, I would encourage you to ask candidates what aspects of their public activity…

Cosmos' API is an emulation of MongoDB which differs in features, compatibility, and implementation from an actual MongoDB deployment. Cosmos' suggestion of API version support (eg…

Great comment! My corollary would be that "Many managers have never had a great role model". In my first role as an engineering manager I thought it was the logical career progress…

A promotion doesn't mean you have to take on the role of your manager, it generally means you have expanded (or new) responsibilities and expectations. For larger companies career …

I agree with the general sentiment of taking ownership (especially if you are self-aware enough to realise the coping pattern of deflection). The example of a CEO not allowing some…

When I joined Yahoo! Australia & NZ in 1997 I had the OG account @yahoo.com.au. We later launched Yahoo! Australia & NZ Mail and moved the company accounts to a yahoo-inc subdomain…

An interesting idea! I tried refreshing the README.md expecting to see other testimonials, and I'm seeing the same one every time (from tinyCoder32 on Apr 6). I noticed the suggest…

I would start by asking your team lead or manager why the team doesn't use video (particularly for longer meetings like sprint planning), as they may have more context. I expect th…

It can definitely be a challenge to be self-aware of cognitive biases, but my personal variation of Hanlon's razor would be closer to "Never attribute to malice that which is adequ…

It is definitely challenging to get a sense of culture fit when interviewing, and Covid has forced some rapid changes for teams that may still be adapting to "temporary" work from …

Aside from freeing up space used by my growing collection of older consoles, I'm not convinced full backwards compatibility for PS3 and earlier games should be a hard requirement f…

FYI, the Security section of the MongoDB manual has a checklist ( http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/administration/security-check... ) and example firewall configurations for iptables…