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…

Will it replace programmers? — As a writer, I was always afraid of generative AI. I have data to prove that thousands of writers are creating AI-generated fiction. I get it — GenAI, ChatGPT included, can produce incoherent content due to its hallucinatory nature. When media factories flood the market with AI content (often edited…

A user story for the next 100 design sprints My first visit to Orlando was in 2005 when I was in my twenties. At that time, there was little room to plan in detail. Google was in its infancy. All I had was a free Disney DVD. Plus, there were…

Product companies don’t have it better. 2007 was the year I joined a product organization. It was among the Fortune 500. Its CEO was among the top 10 richest people in the world. When I joined, I got a 2x salary hike. I was on cloud nine. But what really…

Passion is both the reason and the reward I entered the software industry about 2 decades ago. I was an engineering graduate, but I didn’t have a computer degree. It was OK, not only because I knew the basics of software making (I was an Electronics engineer), but also because…

Technology is important, but abstractions are crucial Technology solves problems. Software is an extension of it — and a much friendlier one, simply because it is distributable via the internet. Because of its distributability, software development is an ever-growing career. One doesn’t need to be a college graduate to contribute…