A tech professional explains why they refuse to provide references for strangers, arguing it's unethical to vouch for people they don't know.
Analysis of the prevalence of 'fake' or 'ghost' job listings in the tech hiring market, based on surveys and personal observation.
Advice on when and how to include your GitHub profile in job applications, emphasizing relevance over quantity.
A hiring manager's advice on standing out in tech job applications, emphasizing personalized emails and meaningful interview conversations.
A developer reflects on leaving Twitter, the state of LinkedIn for hiring, and shares personal thoughts on tech career topics like seniority and engineering hierarchies.
Explores how baseball scouts' subjective biases and focus on physical appearance lead to misjudging player talent, with parallels to hiring in other fields.
Advice on prioritizing career growth and learning over immediate salary increases, especially for early-career software developers.
A software developer shares his unconventional career path of securing jobs without traditional interviews, focusing on networking and skill demonstration.
An analysis of why many corporate engineering blogs fail to attract readers and the key processes used by successful ones like Cloudflare and Segment.
Analyzes the debate on the best location to start a tech startup, arguing the Bay Area's advantages are concentrated and not accessible to most founders.
Analyzes Joel Spolsky's 'lemons' hiring theory, questioning why great developers are supposedly rare on the job market if they are easy to identify.
An analysis of hiring biases in tech, where experienced candidates are rejected for not fitting a 'trendy' profile from elite schools.
