Slack Software Engineer Interview Questions

As an Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience in the industry, I’ve seen countless interview processes and evaluated many candidates. Despite my background, I realized that targeted preparatio

My boss just asked me why we had coded in a specific way (2 year old code). I had to search in different slack channels, old commits and old jira stories to find any documentation on this. But i was u

Example 1: A hiring manager gave a frowning face when I was giving a perfectly fine answer to an interview question. At the time I thought it was odd, but I just internally steeled myself and continue

I’m looking for some advice on how to handle a situation with a junior engineer on my team. I’m a senior dev, but not the lead. We’re working on a project with a contractual deadline just before Chris

How would you respond to a refusal to do any kind of retrospective or analysis on getting better at gathering requirements and acceptance criteria before starting work, when opposing and influential v

Here is how I manage sprint planning meetings. I'm curious if any of you have written long form content on how you manage sprint planning meetings. # Preface This post describes how I’ve been conducti

My job recently introduced Copilot subscription for every dev, and of course devs started using it. We write embedded/desktop apps using C++ and Python, and from my experience Copilot is not really go

Some of the tickets I see are so badly written and communicated that it's left me thinking that, as an industry, we underestimate how important it is for staff to be able to write clearly and succinct

I've joined a new company and team in the beginning of the year, and I'm the only senior in a team with 2 other developers. We're responsible to maintaining some parts of the codebase in a shared repo

*Caution, rant ahead. If you would like to commiserate, or even offer feedback, please read on!* Elevator pitch on me: 4-year CS degree, 6 years pro experience across 4 companies, mostly using agile.