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- The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and it will Hurt
- Pollen’s enormous debt left behind: exclusive details
- Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end?
- Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs?
- Meta’s historic growth challenge
- Resiliency in Distributed Systems
- What is Data Engineering: Part 2
- Inside Pollen’s Collapse: “$200M Raised” but Staff Unpaid - Exclusive
- What is Data Engineering?
- Inside the Shutdown of Zenly by Snap
- The Scoop: Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineers
- I removed all affiliate links from my blog: numbers
- Three years of advertising on my blog: numbers
- Advice for Less Experienced Software Engineers in the Current Tech Market
- Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers
- Companies Using RFCs or Design Docs and Examples of These
- Shipping to Production
- Inside the Layoffs at Klarna
- Job Ads to Hire Software Engineers: My Advice
- Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer: Controversial Advice
- Migrations Done Well: Executing Migrations
- Big Tech and the reality of scaling customer support
- Migrations Done Well: Typical Migration Approaches
- Notable Internal Systems at Amazon
- The Ukraine War - and Its Impact on the Tech Industry
- What TPMs Do and What Software Engineers Can Learn From Them
- Becoming a Better Writer as a Software Engineer
- Coaches and Mentors for Engineering Managers and Engineering Leaders
- Holiday Book Recommendations for Engineering Managers, Software Engineers and Product Managers
- Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team
- Exceptional Off-Cycle Compensation Adjustments for Software Engineers in 2021
- Platform Teams
- How I Motivate Myself to Write
- Incident Review and Postmortem Best Practices
- Reverse Interviewing Your Future Manager and Team
- The Pragmatic Engineer Test: 12 Questions on Engineering Culture
- How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
- The Most Heated Tech Job Market in History: Advice for Software Engineers
- The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
- My "Investment Mindset"
- Donating My Time to Grow a VC-Funded Company: Why I Quit Mentoring at Plato
- I Want to Hire Someone, But My Team Said No to on the Debrief: Ask the EM
- I Spent $5,000 Advertising My Free Book to iOS and Android Engineers
- Uber's Crazy YOLO App Rewrite, From the Front Seat
- Dependency Injection in iOS and Android Apps
- A Checklist For First-Time Engineering Managers
- EMPOWERED Review: I Needed This Book 4 Years Ago
- The Trimodal Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe
- Preparing for the Systems Design and Coding Interview
- Equity 101 for Software Engineers at Big Tech and Startups
- Mobile Platform Teams
- Want to Learn about Entrepreneurship, as a Software Engineer? Sell Something Online.
- 10 Engineering Challenges Due to the Nature of Mobile Applications
- Writing a Performance Self Review for Software Engineers - With an Example
- Templates as Inspiration for Software Engineers and Engineering Managers
- Common Performance Review Biases: How to Spot and Counter Them
- System Design Interview Book Review: Finally, a Book for Getting Better at Architecting Systems
- What Becoming an Engineering Manager Feels Like
- What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not
- My Unforgettable Uber Ride
- Ask the EM: How Can I work Better with My Product Manager, as an Engineering Lead?
- Advice to Myself When Starting Out as a Software Developer
- Data Structures & Algorithms I Used Working at Tech Companies
- Can You Really Measure Individual Developer Productivity? - Ask the EM
- The Cheetah Software Engineer
- Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager: My Book Review and Notes
- Architecture Jams: a Collaborative Way of Designing Software
- Your Social Capital on the Dev Team
- Surprising Things About Working at Well-Known Tech Unicorns
- I Feel Stuck as a Staff Engineer, Wanting to Move Into an EM Role - Ask the EM
- A Software Engineering Culture Test
- Paper debugging
- Tech Debt and the Pragmatic Middle Ground
- The Pyramid of Unit Testing Benefits
- I'm Acting as The Team's Lead, But I'm Not Actually One - Ask the EM
- Refactoring Typescript: My Book Review
- How Can I Prepare to Eventually Move into Engineering Management? - Ask the EM
- How to Lead a Project - as a Software Engineer
- Performance Reviews for Software Developers – How I Do Them In a (Hopefully) Fair Way
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- Distributed systems learnings in 2019
- Readable Code
- I'm Writing a Book on Growing as a Software Developer
- Don't Work Alone When You're a New or Junior Engineer
- An Engineering Team where Everyone is a Leader
- A Philosophy of Software Design: My Take (and a Book Review)
- Working at Silicon Valley Companies - in Europe
- Stretching, Executing, Coasting - and Pacing Yourself to Avoid Burnout
- Talk First, Code Later
- Seniority for Software Engineers: a Tech Talk
- Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects
- Stop Calling it Bad Code
- Software Developer Promotions: Advice to Get to That Next Level
- Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
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