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Interviewing with Google? Read this!

In response to my post, “My team at Google is hiring,” I got a lot more résumés than I expected. This is absolutely great! Many thanks to all the folks...

2 replies - 12507 views - 11/26/12 by Alex Ruiz in Articles

TALK! It’s An Interview, Not An Interrogation

Several times a year I will get a call or email from a hiring manager telling me that an interview never really ‘went anywhere’ because the candidate...

0 replies - 2342 views - 11/13/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

A Developer's Guide to Starting a New Job

Starting a new job can be an anxious and exhausting process for most individuals. Fold in the high expectations of a technical position and it can be...

0 replies - 6216 views - 11/12/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

Cloud DBA and Management: What an Expert Needs to Know

What does a cloud computing expert need to know? This is the last of a three part guide to interviewing for a cloud operations position. You can find them here...

0 replies - 2988 views - 11/11/12 by Sean Hull in Articles

A Retrospective of an Unproductive Day

Last night I was going to bed thinking “Man, I accomplished nothing today! What a waste.” But then I stopped feeling bad (and became awesome...

1 replies - 6225 views - 11/08/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Trip to "reflections projections|2012"

I gave a talk and a codelab on Dart at reflections projections|2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I can't possibly explain how well...

0 replies - 2031 views - 11/08/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles

Boss to Employees: Don't Work Too Hard

 As far as I know, the bold suggestion of recommending 40 hours working per week came from the XP community through the practice of Sustainable pace. ...

0 replies - 8991 views - 11/08/12 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

What Makes a Great Operations Leader?

I've posted a few times about the posts by John Allspaw and this is another instance where I admire what he wrote and think it's worth quoting a few...

0 replies - 3727 views - 10/30/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

DevOps Skills in Demand

Companies may not know exactly what DevOps is yet, but they know they want people with “DevOps” on their resumes. For the last few months, I noted the...

0 replies - 4351 views - 10/20/12 by Eric Minick in Articles

Do Web 2.0 Companies Really Have The Best Technical Talent?

There are a lot of cool companies with products on the web that millions of people are using. I’ll...

0 replies - 1958 views - 10/02/12 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

Disrupt Tech Recruiting II – So You Want Ari Gold?

Posted on September 26, 2012 After publishing How to Disrupt Technical Recruiting – Hire an Agent and reading the subsequent...

0 replies - 1575 views - 09/26/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

You’re a Top Developer!

I know that you are a top rated developer. In fact I know that everyone reading this is ranking among the top 10% of all developers. How do I know? Because...

5 replies - 13038 views - 09/14/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

Overqualified is Overdiagnosed

I’ve been inspired by comments on prior articles to discuss the sensitive topics of ‘overqualification’ and ageism.  My Why You Didn’t Get The Job and...

0 replies - 5767 views - 08/27/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Programmers for $2,000 per Month, More? Or Less?

One of the top stories on Hacker news this morning had to do with someone getting feedback on his idea to rent world-class programmers for $2,000 per...

2 replies - 6429 views - 08/20/12 by Larry White in Articles

(Often,) You People are Too Smart to Train

I don’t often teach our training classes in Maven or Nexus, but when I do, I always tend to get interesting classes. I’m halfway through a on site...

0 replies - 2964 views - 08/15/12 by Tim O'brien in Articles