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…

The emergence of AI singularity or all smoke and mirrors? The last week's OpenAI events have turned tech newsrooms upside down. The firing of Sam Altman by OpenAI’s board, the revolt of its workforce, the announcement of support by Microsoft, and Sam’s eventual return kept tech journalists busy for the…

Processing a sorted array is faster than an unsorted array I have no computer degree. Around 2016, I invented a new way to learn computer science fundamentals using StackOverflow. In my free time, I began hunting the highest-voted SO questions. In my article The 16-hour developer workout, I proposed this…

Gauging the fullest ambition of AI-powered tech empire I am not an OpenAI recruiter — just a curious follower of tech companies. Through sheer curiosity, I was browsing OpenAI’s website. I came across a link that led me to an OpenAI Residency page. It’s a 6 months program aimed at…

Skills are important, but some things are more crucial As a programmer, I was obsessed with tech tutorials. Even when served raw, without any garnishing, they suited my taste. This was because when I entered the software industry, there was a visible shortage of pure tech material. Reddit and StackOverflow…

Let’s review them one more time In the early days of my programming career, code review was one of the things I was most passionate about. Today, I loathe it. This article is intended to explain the transition. The early enthusiasm: Despite starting my career in a software support firm, my entry into…