Getting hired is about getting hired.
Are you dreaming of becoming a software engineer? Sure, but are you literally dreaming of becoming a software engineer. Coming March 1st is the first season of the Handshake Protocol Podcast entitled Dreaming on the Job. In this season, I’m sharing with…
Recently, I found out that people I personally know are being laid off. It has been heartbreaking to hear about all the layoffs across the industry, with Meta, Twitter, and Stripe grabbing early headlines, but it didn’t quite hit home…
It’s so tempting to say “yes.” There it is, sitting in your email, with the words: Congratulations! We’re pleased to extend this offer… But is it a gift, or a trojan horse? It can be so easy to just reply…
It’s as cliché as it is misleading. The promise is that you can switch careers, shell out $10,000 and go to a coding bootcamp for six weeks and get a coding job that pays a six-figure salary. If that’s what…
I don’t know you, but I know that your side project is too ambitious. I know that you’ve worked on the project for too long. Weeks? Months? I know that you keep coming back to it after you’ve got distracted…
Used to show recognition of a mistake or minor accident… oopsie Some of these are a bit bigger than an oopsie. They may be categorized as “whoopsie daisies” or even “oopsie doopsies.” Trust me, you don’t want to be doing…
“Genuine question, is how many of those people in the bootcamp actually push themselves to continue learning even after the class? How many of them continuously kept applying for jobs along with networking post bootcamp? I just want to put…
Boss hired a “full stack dev” (certificate from a bootcamp)… The FS dev had never used the browser Inspector tool before to troubleshoot (and didn’t seem to know it existed), so that was a red flag to the best of…