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5 Best Strategies To Get Your First Programming Job

September 11, 2017 by Lorenzo Pasqualis 3 Comments

A First Programming Job Requires Experience, But... How?

A question that aspiring young developers ask me all the time is: How do I get the first programming job that I need to build the experience required by most programming jobs?

It appears like a chicken and egg problem. You need work experience to get your first job, but you can't get that experience without the first job. It might seem like an impossible riddle. In reality, it is far from impossible.  Here are five strategies that will … [Read more...] about 5 Best Strategies To Get Your First Programming Job

Filed Under: career Tagged With: advice, career, finding talent, hiring, interview, job market, people

The Fallacy of Extreme Tech Interviews

August 4, 2017 by Lorenzo Pasqualis Leave a Comment

Life of a software engineer.
It must have been more than 15 years ago. I was working as a developer for a company in Seattle. I spent my days writing code, designing technical solutions, leading projects, and interviewing job applicants for engineering positions. I loved my job. The interviewing part was a nice distraction from hours of uninterrupted programming sessions. It was more enjoyable than the average meeting, more social than coding, and I got to meet lots of interesting and … [Read more...] about The Fallacy of Extreme Tech Interviews

Filed Under: hiring Tagged With: advice, career, culture, fallacies, finding talent, hiring, interview, people, teams, work environment

6-Step process to hire happy software developers and create fans

June 12, 2017 by Lorenzo Pasqualis Leave a Comment

Software development interviews don't have to suck
If there was a yearly contest to proclaim the industry with the most abusive interview process, software development would win every year. Interviewers ask candidates to jump through hoops to prove their worthiness. I have been in interviews with me on one side of the table, 12 engineers on the other side taking turn asking coding questions. In a different occasion, a screener asked me to code on a voice-only phone call; that was followed by 3 … [Read more...] about 6-Step process to hire happy software developers and create fans

Filed Under: hiring Tagged With: advice, finding talent, hiring, interview, leadership, work environment

The Economy of Software Development

June 5, 2017 by Lorenzo Pasqualis Leave a Comment

Meetings are unpopular
In development organizations, software engineers often question why they need to spend time in meetings and tracking their work. They label time spent not coding as "ritualistic overhead", "agile bureaucracy" and a waste of time. This point of view is natural, as developers learn to write code by themselves. To a developer writing code alone, any distraction is a waste of time. Phone calls, idle chats, bathroom breaks, or anything that is not writing code, interrupt the … [Read more...] about The Economy of Software Development

Filed Under: business Tagged With: advice, agile, finding talent, hiring, leadership, meetings

The Art of Screening Candidates

May 26, 2017 by Lorenzo Pasqualis Leave a Comment

Hiring great tech talent is the foundation for strong teams. The importance of fine-tuning the interview process and the quality of the interview loops should be of great concern for all hiring managers and organizations. Screening candidates is a very important aspect of any interview.

In a world where a full technical interview can cost your team 4 to 10 man-hours, mastering the art of screening candidates is key to reduce costs, scale hiring efforts, and quickly sift through many promising … [Read more...] about The Art of Screening Candidates

Filed Under: building teams Tagged With: finding talent, hiring, interview

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