InCodeXbyDavid Villarama·Dec 20, 2022What is the success criteria for your project?A shared vision that most projects get wrong.
InCodeXbyDavid Villarama·Mar 29, 2022Current State of Software InterviewsInterview Pattern, Rejections and Possible Fixes
David Villarama·Mar 6, 2022The 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.
David Villarama·Mar 5, 2022This 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…
David Villarama·Jan 8, 2022The 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…A response icon1A response icon1
David Villarama·Jan 8, 2022Hiring 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…
David Villarama·Dec 3, 2021The 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…
David Villarama·Aug 12, 2021I 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…
David Villarama·Jul 13, 2021I 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…A response icon1A response icon1
David Villarama·Jun 17, 2021I find what most interviewers think is important is what they are good at.Software developers want to hire clones of themselves.A response icon1A response icon1
