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. …

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…

As of this writing, the much-awaited process called ETH merge is completed.

My childhood was replete with stories from various cultures. They included, among other things, mythology as well. One of them went like this: A king was intercepted by a demon in the woods. The demon claimed that the king had violated his territory. …

There was a time in my career when I desperately needed to refuel my skill tank. After 17 years of experience in programming, I was fired by my servicing company due to a lack of projects. Since my skillset (mobile/desktop) was too narrow for the time being, and employers weren’t…

In 2007, I was interviewing for a senior developer position at Oracle. The position wasn’t the best in the area, but a Fortune 500, and much greater than my then IT servicing firm. The hiring manager had invited me for F2F. The job location was 1000 miles away from my…

In its last all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Simplicity Sprint. It is aimed to combat a challenge: To improve employee efficiency. This should be hardly surprising. However, very few would have imagined Google publicly announcing the need for an employee productivity drive. Here is what Sunder Pichai…