David VillaramainCodeXWhat is the success criteria for your project?A shared vision that most projects get wrong.Dec 20, 2022Dec 20, 2022
David VillaramainCodeXCurrent State of Software InterviewsInterview Pattern, Rejections and Possible FixesMar 29, 2022Mar 29, 2022
David VillaramaThe interview process has been influenced by FAANG companies.If it's good enough for Amazon or Google, it should be good enough for my company. Right? Absolutely not.Mar 6, 2022Mar 6, 2022
David VillaramaThis culture has been decades in the making.The problem is that companies have shown they have no loyalty to employees specially when layoffs happen. So in return, employees no longer…Mar 5, 2022Mar 5, 2022
David VillaramaThe only reason companies don't want a more experience developer is that they don't want to pay for…Seasoned developers can learn frameworks 10x faster because frameworks fundamentals are the same. Frameworks are built on similar patterns…Jan 8, 20221Jan 8, 20221
David VillaramaHiring someone without experience is a "losing" investment for a company.First, you assign them tasks that as an experience engineer, you can do in minutes. But instead you take time to explain/debug/review the…Jan 8, 2022Jan 8, 2022
David VillaramaThe only thing you need to become a Senior Engineer…There are a lot of medium articles claiming the 5 things you need or learn x, y and z to become a senior engineer. They tell you to do this…Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021
David VillaramaI think you need to be upfront when hiring that is the company culture.Back in my younger days, I remember being asked to evaluating an engineer. He was not very good at that point but he showed desire and had…Aug 12, 20211Aug 12, 20211
David VillaramaI started using SAM because I didn't need to worry about other cloud solutions besides AWS.But every time I needed something more complex, I struggled looking at SAM documentation while I could easily find a serverless framework…Jul 13, 20211Jul 13, 20211
David VillaramaI find what most interviewers think is important is what they are good at.Software developers want to hire clones of themselves.Jun 17, 20211Jun 17, 20211
