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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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What is programmer imposter syndrome? Imposter syndrome symptoms: You’re either self-taught developer / programmer or a college educated one You feel like your fellow developers with fancier-than-yours university degrees have more knowledge than you do You lack confidence in your abilities as a developer and think of yourself as unqualified to accomplish the tasks in […]
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Let’s start by generalizing / categorizing programmers – it’ll be faster this way. There is 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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