Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?
Anyone who has maintained software for a while knows that it tends to rot over time. It takes deliberate effort to prevent that from happening. In this post I will talk about a story how one team successfully dealt with it and conclude with some practical tips.
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Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives, Roadmap, Plans, Milestones, Policies
In Strategy Basics we touched on multiple related words and based on the feedback they deserve their own post with examples to build a common language.
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Tips and mistakes to avoid when applying to software engineering jobs at top tech
It is the layoff season and some of us may need to get into the interview mode. I’ve done hundreds of interviews in the past few years to hire the best talent but I’ve spent a significant time on the other side of the interview table as well.
In this post, I will go through my top 3 favorite interview lessons hoping to shorten the learning curve for some of you who may be on the job market.
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I’ve been interviewing, shaping the recruitment pipeline, onboarding and working closely with other Staff engineers. In my current gig as a Senior Staff engineer, I find myself digging into a new cluster (roughly 100–200 people) every few months which means I practically need to be onboarded as if I was new.
I also mentor aspiring senior engineers who are on their way to becoming full blown Staff engineers. A common theme is the differences between senior engineers and Staff engineers which start from day 1.
I have seen some great onboarding and some terrible ones, both with long-lasting impact on the performance.
To make onboarding more approachable, I packed some of the best practices in this article to set a good baseline.
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When it comes to books, less is more.
👉I have recently moved to Substack. Read the full story here: https://alexewerlof.substack.com/p/slow-reading
Resumes, job ads, personal intros and even funerals have one thing in common: they use “year” as a unit of experience.
This is fundamentally wrong!
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Since I’ve moved to Substack, here’s my latest article for my Medium followers: https://alexewerlof.substack.com/p/mobility-maturity
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