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First and foremost majority of people need to agree that there is a problem and it needs solving. Most people living in urban cities are too busy to just survive and fulfil the bas…

For the longest of times contract (and perm) developers/project managers/agencies have taken a lot of liberties of time and money only to develop sub standard products and then cha…

In our org (large US bank) there has been a huge rollout of github copilot and adoption has been very successful. For me it became essential to learn how this can help me in day to…

None of the machine/platform is perfect. Some have more issues than others. My mac(s) have had issues occasionally, both hardware and of course software related. But I still prefer…

For a small/startup company it is often easier if they can ask the new joinee to complete a few tasks beforehand, even before joining. Some places are keen on background checks, HR…

FFS, does everything need to go to the courts...

We have a GO server handling requests and responses etc. Under the hood we are using imagemagick.

Sorry, this does not work. 99% of the times. In my opinion.

Almost every org I have worked for in the last 20 years - (across the globe) - I have heard this from atleast one senior management. In some way or form.

The problem with checking in so frequently is that it is still intrusive and causes distraction. Many engineers would feel the need to do just make up stuff just to show something …

I would personally prefer project based/code based assessments any day. Algo based tests are indeed pointless and glad other people also see the point.

Anyone using a real code repository for assessing candidates' ability to code, run tests etc as part of a technical assessment ? I would like to know what kind of problems are you …

Welcome to the world of buggy software.

I came to London 8 year back and I love the tech scene here. Thought rents/commute etc could be steep, one can expect decent salary as well.

We work in smaller teams in a scrum like environment. Our tasks are small ranging from 2-7 days mostly. To make it easier for us developers to communicate estimations higher up, we…

Go for a refurbished macbook pro 2011-12 ish version and you cant go wrong.