Advice

When your boss loves you, you have options. Here's how to help your manager get what they need, so you get what you want.

I’ve seen so many senior engineers struggle with these skills during technical interviews related to system design, whiteboarding and practical coding. Master these to standout!

A quote from NVIDIA’s Huang in a recent interview: You want to position yourself near opportunities. You don’t have to be that perfect. You want to position yourself near the tree. Even if you don’t catch the apple before it hits the ground, so long as you’re the first one to pick it up. You want to position yourself close to the opportunities. That’s kind of a lot of my work, is positioning the company near opportunities, and the company having the skills to monetize each one of the steps alo

I remember back when being on one of those gigantic, long-lived software projects when I was a wee programmer. Professional project managers had laid out the entire thing before we started coding. Enlightened professional project managers—they only assumed 4.2 hours of coding per programmer per day.

Read inspiring interviews with successful self-taught developers and bootcamp grads. Find your Junior Software Engineer job with our job board.

Instead of niching yourself into a prison, find the questions that bring you alive, and live them.

Site Reliability Engineering, incident management, learning, lessons learned, SRE

Programming lessons I’ve learnt over the last 7 years.

The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In this usage, it referred to those Americans who did

Reading the docs straight through, like a book, can provide outsized benefits for your career.

This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Tes...

The most common human-related challenges that teams face.

Unsure of what a word means and how it applies to UX in-practice? Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and Agile concepts.

Design Manager Sara Culver takes us through evolving the team's product design and writing career levels.

Learn how career ladders work and how to use a career plan to climb the ladder

When seeking tech advice, consider survivorship bias and the ever-changing job market. What worked in the past may not work today, and different factors like experience, location, and education background can impact opportunities. Seek guidance that aligns with your specific situation, connect with others, and embrace adaptability to find success on your own terms.

and how AI can help

A new set of principles for better workflows when making digital products

If you have the itch to found a company, start a business, not a startup. You'll earn more money and enjoy the experience more.

At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good idea to go along with such requests.

Our 10 person startup gets acquired by Google, we rebuild our product the Google way, and begin to understand that amazing things are possible at Google, if you play the Google game

Designing to scale can be a critical skill to learn in specific fields

When you discuss your promotion with your manager, how do you bring it up? What about when you tell a story in an interview? Or give feedback to a coworker? In each of these situations, our intuition often lies. Our intuition tells us things like: If I just tell my manager how much work I’ve done, he’ll appreciate me.

With actionable tips on how to develop them

In this post I describe how I wish I had archived all my old projects and my approach going forward.

Don't suffer and merely survive, aided by your noise cancelling headphones. Optimising for individual happiness can result in less of the joy that people find in teams that achieve great things together.

What can cause managers to play safe—pass on great opportunities, refuse to take risks and do the work they’ve always done before?