Review: Great Developers are Raised

"By building mentoring capacity at work, you can hire newcomers, broken toys, impostors and turn them into the loyal, high-quality workforce." - Eduards Sizovs

I wish this was only a tech workforce issue, but it's an issue for every industry unfortunately. And, it goes back to how the education and workforce was built long before the computer revolution.

Anyhow, this Latvian author does an excellent job on summarizing so many thoughts of developers in the tech industry worldwide especially those who reject the tech culture of living at work and programming their life away.

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https://sizovs.net/2019/04/10/the-best-developers-are-raised-not-hired/

Review: Microsoft changed the way they Interview

This is great to finally hear! Not because I can't pass such technical difficult interviews, but because such in-depth technical interviews do not reflect how people actually work in tech environments. There's a lot more to developing a key product pushing the industry's tech edge than a random research conclusion or unrealistic (useless) technical solution.

The "Alternative Interview Framework"
https://blog.usejournal.com/rethinking-how-we-interview-in-microsofts-developer-division-8f404cfd075a

P.S. French is a very useful language in the tech world, as I'm starting to see.

References

• https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-new-developer-interview-process-2018-12
• https://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-2013-6