I think it's probably common for job seekers to think that companies hold all the cards when hiring, but I'd argue it's way more symbiotic than it might seem. It's actually quite hard for companies to find good candidates for their roles,
I recently saw a recruiter post this on LinkedIn: Save it as a Word doc (.doc or .docx) Not a PDF. Not a Pages file. Recruiters often need to make small tweaks before sending it on to hiring managers. And PDFs are a nightmare to edit. This is terrible advice.
If, in an engineering manager interview, you ask me to do anything with a binary tree I’ll probably fail it on the spot. I didn’t graduate with a CS degree and I’ve never been all that interested in the low-level mechanics of programming or languages. But I
Job seekers, beware the fake remote job listings. Any job that qualifies “remote” with “if you are within x miles of an office, you must be in the office y days a week” isn’t actually remote. I’ve seen dozens of these posts recently and there’s an obvious
I’m a big, big believer in the four day work week. I’ve been lucky enough to have brief periods with it (a few months at a time), and it’s honestly life changing. Traditional thinking is that because employees have fewer hours to work that they’ll get
Eugene
OK, so the weekly post about Eugene's antics fell apart quickly (totally didn't see that coming). I haven't posted since the week of 1/20/25, so this is a "catch up for February" edition. 😬 Perhaps hard to believe, but February was
Eugene
January has officially arrived in Chicago, which means it's insanely cold and everyone is grumpy. Luckily for us this changes nothing about Eugene's vibe and he's helping us get through it by staying sleepy and even keel. The aforementioned cold does require us to
Eugene
It was a low key week – well, more than normal at least – since everyone was getting back into their normal work/school routines and there wasn’t as much time to just stare and admire Eugene all day. The pace should pick up once we get back into a normal
Eugene
Today marks the first edition of a semi-regular post featuring Eugene's antics for the last week or so in photo format. Hope you enjoy it. He got into the holiday spirit. He played with his cousin Ivo and battled over corn (we've all been there). After
Writing
For 10+ years I've been hand rolling my own blog and it's been...fine. My site was never going to win any design awards, but it was always fast, readable, and accessible. I used Jekyll + Github Pages for a while and more recently Hugo + Cloudflare to
tl;dr: It works like email, and your posts will have a much wider audience over time. Audience / Purpose This is a simplified primer for normals to hopefully convince y’all to use federation from Threads, so I’m going to be generalizing and glazing over details. Nerds, don’t
Talks
So you’re thinking about becoming an engineering manager, eh? Awesome, let’s go! I considered this exact same decision about a year ago, and ultimately ended up taking the leap. I’ll walk you through how I made the call to switch to being an EM after many years