Coding interviews
November 24, 2023Interviewing for software engineers is a complicated topic. Here's my observations with over a decade of experience interviewing on both sides for various engineering organizations.
Below is a collection of essays I've written. Expect some posts to contradict or at least acknowledge previous posts as I learn new things and grow as an engineer. If there's any broken links or something doesn't make sense, let me know and I'll work on updating it. Thanks for reading.
Interviewing for software engineers is a complicated topic. Here's my observations with over a decade of experience interviewing on both sides for various engineering organizations.
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Manage your Gandi DNS records via Terraform with open source tools and free commercial products. Also, setup your repository for better documentation writing with Vale.
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As projects grow, there are dependencies that fall outside of the project's dependency graph. This means that there are some actions you need to perform on your code base when things change. Using the post-merge git-hook can help automate this for your team.
Learn how to delete your local Git branches with a full breakdown of how to do it from manual to fully automated step-by-step.
Let's iterate across files using ls and grep to copy or move files from a parent directory into a bunch of sibling directories related to the file. We can do this in an automated way using the commands mentioned above.
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Setting up lolcommits for local selfies from Git commits you make on your machine using your camera. This is geared at Mac OS X users.
A short essay about humanizing computer work after going fully-remote in 2015 and sharing my work-life online using social media.