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…

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…

Programming is a great hobby, but a bad profession. The days of retiring as a programmer@60 are soon becoming over. If you aren’t keen on grabbing the cabin by rising the managerial ladder, a day will come soon when the industry will eat you up from inside. Learning helps you…

How to start thinking around Google Carbon — In the most recent CppNorth conference in July, Google released its C++ descendent programming language called Carbon. Google has just released 0.1 now. Carbon 1.0 will be available around 2024–2025. The purpose is to allow the developer community from disparate origins to have enough representation early on. At its launch…

Before COVID, the world was changing fast. During and past the worst of it, it is ever-changing for software developers. What we saw is just tips of the icebergs: Software world witnessed its greatest resignation movement, coupled with series of layoffs during recession Superheroes (FAAMG+ dream companies) turned into supervillains…

Tomorrow, the US speaker of Congress Nancy Peloski would probably reach Republic of China, popularly known to the world as Taiwan. Yes, the factory “nation” that powers our smart-everything, refrigerators, washing machines, car displays, and much more. I am no political analyst. But as a programmer who has worked and…