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  • How to resign from your job as a software developer

    Need help leaving your current position as you have just accepted another job offer? Resign from your job as a software developer, gracefully! The big day has come! You just signed a job offer from a new employer – congrats!!! Everything about the opportunity seems to be an upgrade from your current arrangement. However you … Read more

  • Essential Guide to overcoming Imposter Syndrome

    What is programmer imposter syndrome? Imposter syndrome symptoms: These symptoms ring true to you? Welcome to Software Development world! You’ll like it here. Here’s the thing, what you’re experiencing is extremely common. Literally everyone has experienced the symptoms you’re going through at a point or another in their career. It’s as important to understand why … Read more


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Workplace

  • How to Handle being Laid Off in the Tech Industry

    With the current layoffs, we decided to put together a guide on how to deal with losing your job.

  • 3 reasons why you should write a programming blog

    Why you should write a programming blog As a junior and sometimes even intermediate programmer, the competition is often fierce compared to what you will experience a bit later in your career, and that is good news. Differentiating yourself from other developers sounds like an impossibly daunting task. Although differentiating yourself WILL be more time … Read more

  • How to succeed as a programmer at an early stage startup

    Let’s start by generalizing / categorizing programmers – it’ll be faster this way. There are usually 3 types of programmers Common programmer personalities: It isn’t unusual for a developer to be a blend of the three types of programmers with a temporary predominant personality determined by their mood, night of sleep, yesterday’s beers, shower thoughts … Read more

Technical

  • What Happens When You Enter a URL into a Browser? Interview Question Answered by a Senior Software Engineer

    When you’re preparing for a software engineering interview, one common question you might encounter is “What happens when you enter a URL into a browser and press enter?” In this article, we’ll provide an in-depth answer to this question as explained by a Senior Software Engineer. If you’re asked this question in an interview, the … Read more

  • Top 10 Websites any Software Engineer will Love

    With more and more talks about the “Big R” coming in 2023, it is crucial to stay current on emerging technologies and market trends in order to remain competitive in the employment market and advance your career as a software engineer. It might be difficult to stay on top of all the latest advancements and … Read more

  • 5 web app projects for your programming portfolio

    For an entry level / junior developer, personal projects are often the holy grail when it comes to starting conversations with recruiters, hiring managers, and ultimately, scoring jobs. Project-based learning (or PBL) also happens to be one of the best, if not THE best way, to get familiar with new technologies, paradigms and approaches you … Read more

  • 3 reasons why you should write a programming blog

    Why you should write a programming blog As a junior and sometimes even intermediate programmer, the competition is often fierce compared to what you will experience a bit later in your career, and that is good news. Differentiating yourself from other developers sounds like an impossibly daunting task. Although differentiating yourself WILL be more time … Read more

  • Why you should learn VueJS 3

    Vue.js 3 released a few hours ago! Here are some pros to VueJS and why you should consider learning it According to the official VueJS GitHub account, Vue.js 3 was just released a few hours ago. As time goes by, VueJS keeps on growing in popularity. Many startup companies and SMEs, use ReactJS or Vue.js … Read more

  • Top 5 best interactive coding challenge websites

    As a junior, intermediate and sometimes (unfortunately) even senior software developer, you might face a coding challenge as one of the steps in your interview process with a new potential employer. The programming challenges can take a few forms, an algorithmic / logic challenge on an established platform, an in-house test, an algorithmic / logic … Read more

Interviewing

  • What Happens When You Enter a URL into a Browser? Interview Question Answered by a Senior Software Engineer

    When you’re preparing for a software engineering interview, one common question you might encounter is “What happens when you enter a URL into a browser and press enter?” In this article, we’ll provide an in-depth answer to this question as explained by a Senior Software Engineer. If you’re asked this question in an interview, the … Read more

  • How to Evaluate a Job Offer as a Software Engineer

    Should you Accept or Decline a Job Offer? It isn’t unheard of for passive job seeking candidates to remain in their search for a perfect position for weeks / months on end. After a while, you WILL lose focus As your focus scope gets blurred, the reasons for considering a new position may get faded. … Read more

  • Questions you should ask when interviewing for a Software Engineering position

    Interviewing for a Software Engineer position? Fortunately, the days of one-way interviews are (almost) a thing of the past. It took us some time, but we have finally reached the age of two-way conversations during interviews! Sure, the employer will ask all the necessary questions to assess your technical skillset and the fit with their … Read more

  • Tips to Nail a Software Engineering Interview

    Passion is Everything Passion is a sure way of differentiating yourself from competition Hiring managers that are interviewing a junior software developer won’t typically expect the candidate to be a fully functional self sufficient member of the team that’ll take their project from A-Z. If they do, consider going for a jog right then and … Read more

Resume

  • How to write a recruiter-friendly resume

    Writing a perfect resume is a fine art We do our best to find the right balance between the most descriptive words that justly portray our experience and keeping it generic in order not to get disqualified by overly picky recruiters / HR. In fact, an eye tracking study has showed that on average, recruiters … Read more