Four months back, I was contacted by a gaming software company for a senior developer position. The role was generic: It embraced all aspects of development: Back end, Mobile, and Cloud. The recruiter summed up the package: €150k annual salary (The salary part is €100k. However, in the EU, the…

My total Medium outreach is already past 1M readers. Here is a list of my most popular articles, sorted by view count: Why You Should Never Send Your CV via Gmail This story went viral on Medium right when the pandemic lockdowns shook the world. So far, it has netted 319K views, and 80% of it are Medium internal…

It’s the essence of my senior developer interview thought process. During pandemics, my 18-month long serial-rejection jinx led me to a deep soul-searching phase. I learned new skills-no results. I learned about STAR, but it wasn’t enough. Fully exploiting STAR to your advantage either requires lying a lot in the…

A developer preparing for an upcoming interview almost always starts with a Google search. She would first search the questions — technical ones. Inevitably, this will be an abyss that very few programmers can come out of. It goes on forever, until the dreaded interview day. There is no opportunity…

Alan Jay Perlis’ 10/130 programming epigrams explained Alan Jay Perlis was one of the founding fathers of modern computing. For his work in universities spanning almost 4 decades, he played a pivotal role in compiler construction. His ideas later played a heavy part in the design of ALGOL programming language. …

I had never thought I would think such a thing In 2004, when I was freshly migrated to the USA. For the first time, I had a dial-up connection in my 1-bedroom apartment. …

I am thinking about the LeetCode Algo-junkies As I am writing this, the news of Google layoffs has begun circling the leading news websites. Following up on its November 2022 forecast of laying off some 10000 people, Google has decided to fire 12000 employees — the details of it will…

No points for guessing who helped me — We had a bloated code base problem. And we loved to talk about it on every Sprint planning — without fixing any part of it. It was our pet subject. Tired of speaking about the ever-elusive progress in the dailies, we went empty-headed in the 90-minute sprint planning meets. If…

So far, only devs knew it was worthless. When the 2008 market crash happened, a lot of jobs evaporated overnight. Past that, the market had to feel hopeful. …