Have you ever come across an idea that made you question your own beliefs and made you start behaving differently right away? I had this experience recently. The book "Millionaire Fastlane" by M.J. DeMarco taught me that working a job is a poor trade. I never thought
Have you ever had to make a really big decision in your life? Perhaps you were buying a house, choosing a city to move to, wanting to get married, or wanting to have kids. These decisions have such big consequences (especially the kids 😂) that choosing can be downright paralyzing. Engineers
Are all coding bootcamps created equally? Nope. Some coding bootcamps promise to take you from 0 to 100. From newbie-to-job-ready. I went to HackReactor which is more of a 20 to 100 bootcamp that takes intermediate level students to job ready. I would advise against programs that
I was a newbie developer in 2015 with little to no coding experience and took on the challenge of trying to make it into industry as a software engineer. I'm happy to report that I'm now at Google as a software engineer but it wasn'
I've been at Google for a little over 3 years and have conducted several dozen software engineering interviews. I have noticed a consistent pattern amongst candidates that succeed and candidates that don't. In this article, I want to share with you what I believe to be
Interviewing at a large tech company like Google can be scary for a variety of reasons: * You have a general fear of rejection. Google interviews are notoriously difficult, and you believe there's a reasonable chance that you won't do well. * Google interviews require a lot of
My main goal in 2022 is to start my own business outside of my full time job. But "starting a business" can entail many things so I'd like to outline more specifically what I plan to accomplish: Develop a Consistent Writing Habit So much of publishing
When talking to people who are starting out in their journey to learn how to code, I sometimes get the question "How do you think like a software engineer?". Depending on who's asking, the actual question being implied is "How do I learn to think
The truth about hiring in the industry is that recruiters will often need to filter based on qualifications due to the sheer volume of applicants, not due to a pervasive bias in one way for bootcamp grads or CS grads. So it ends up having a similar effect as systemic