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…

Programming interviews are replete with hypothetical situations. The entire STAR interview format popularised by AWS revolves around inventing a situation fitting a scenario, and let the candidate describe his/her ideal approach to address it. The problem with STAR interview format is that over a period of time, the question bank…

Stop chasing companies. Build ones. — I have 20 years of experience in software. Through out this time: I got offers that surpassed my last job by 80–120% I got bored, left my cushy job, and went completely freelance I went broke, taught on Udemy, went even more broke to re-enter the job market With the…

When I freshly entered software market, I worked for a service company. We were a bunch of junior programmers billing to fatten our employer’s pockets (i.e. bank accounts). It was a huge and state of the art codebase, created with then-popular multi-tier architecture popularised by Microsoft. Targeted at the Windows…

During the great resignation movement, I wrote an article titled Why Senior Developers Are Leading the Great Resignation Movement on Medium. (the article link at the bottom is this post). The article went viral. Here are the main stats:

I am a programmer in a Nordic country. (They are in the news due to Geopolitics, so you know which countries I am talking about) But I am not literally a Nordic programmer. I am a Nordic immigrant, hence I am better poised to make and share my observations about…