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Category: Tech
On Lightsabers and Resilience
Main Takeaway: Adaptability can only come from expertise, and expertise is developed only through experience. Quite often, that’s failure and even the expectation of failure (gamedays, chaos engineering experiments, architecture reviews, etc.). Also, lightsabers are cool. I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to write about lightsabers. During my lunch breaks I’ve been diving into some Tested.com videos, in particular… Read more →
Connecting with Recruiters, pt 2: External Recruiters
External recruiters, also referred to as third party, contingency, or agency recruiters, differ from internal recruiters as they work for a placement firm rather than a tech company directly. They still want well qualified candidates to put in front of an interview panel, but lacking the direct integration, they instead maintain a network of companies that are looking for candidates.… Read more →
Connecting with Recruiters, pt 1: Internal Recruiters
Internal recruiters, sometimes called in-house or corporate recruiters, are hired by and work exclusively for the company you’re applying to. They’ll understand the needs of the specific business closely, as they’re developing a tighter relationship being on “the inside”. Along with this, they may have a bit of a marketing aspect to their work as well to help sell the… Read more →
Interviewing: Navigating Job Postings
Job postings will likely be your first step towards getting any in-depth info about a role. You may have colleagues who can give you inside info or the company may be well known enough that you can get an idea of what you may do, but that may not give you as much about specifics. More often than not, you’re… Read more →
Practiced Humility in Retrospectives
One of the fallacies about our collective approach to retrospectives, incident reviews, and post mortems is the belief that the entire process is a rational machine. Pour in a curated series of events, turn the handle, and out pop all of the action items that need completing to fix the world. I can’t speak to every industry that practices Resilience… Read more →
Why I joined Jeli
At Jeli, we’re building the world’s best incident analysis tools. With decades of combined knowledge from our time at tech’s leading companies, we’ve developed deep insights into how users can better understand their shared experiences. We’ve seen these problems directly in our time as engineers throughout the stack. We’ve delved into countless incidents after the fact to make sense of… Read more →
Interviewing: Understanding Your Rate of Compensation
It’s ok to be in tech for the money. You want to get paid for hard work and software engineering jobs tend to pay well. There’s no shame in making that a big part of your search. We can love our job, the mission our company is taking on, and the people we work with, but it has to pay… Read more →
Even Experts Need Experts
Before moving to the suburbs, I had been living in NYC for 12+ years, so my skills with a set of tools aren’t extensive. There are lots of problems I could eventually fix with significant time and money invested into projects, as I do like my projects to tinker with, but I don’t have infinite resources to do all the… Read more →
Code Schools and Bootcamps
Developing a tech focused background from an educational institution doesn’t require committing yourself to four years and sizable financial debt. Universities can be expensive and while a well rounded education can be incredibly beneficial, you may want a more focused learning experience concentrated on your area of interest. That’s where code schools come in. Code schools, also known as bootcamps,… Read more →