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>I recommend we discourage phrasing like "move up to management". Word. At Etsy, we'd occasionally call out people (in a friendly way) for saying "I got a promotion to manager!" Someone (usually a more senior manager…
Do you need help? I'm completely on board for that mission and personally feel that we as an industry do a really bad job at testing past the evangelizing phase. Teaching people how to actually test code is something I…
I would! I love coding exercises meant to gain information about a candidate; they're like yardsticks for my professional growth. I love evaluating how I solve a problem now vs how I would have solved it while…
This is a reminder to me that it doesn't matter how great your idea is, or how technically impressive your product is. If the execution isn't right (in this case, who wants to do math awkwardly on their wrist with a…
I'd search for forums for your make and model of car. Those are usually good starting places for getting information.
I completely agree we should stop being paranoid about what's going to happen when we let other people loose on our beautiful code. But I don't think having private methods or marking variables const is about paranoia,…
I love Zed cause even when he's sincerely offering help to someone struggling, he's still 100% Zed; can't even offer help without mentioning how badass he is. Whether you like him or not, being completely and utterly…
Thanks for bringing this up. I'm now waiting to hear from our lawyers to know if we should avoid using this.
Everyone in the company does these as well (our CEO Chad answered did his holiday rotation a couple weeks ago), typically during the holiday season when we slow down our deploys and our support volume increases. But…
HTML5 games! They're easy, quick to set up, the feedback is instant and they're fun to play! I've been making HTML5 games as part of short, two hour collaborative coding exercises at work and it's awesome. Here's a…
Etsy - Brooklyn, NY. Some positions are accepting remotes (check descriptions). https://www.etsy.com/careers We're looking for everyone! Web/mobile apps/tools/testing engineers; Designers; Ops; Marketing; We have a lot…
>I recommend we discourage phrasing like "move up to management". Word. At Etsy, we'd occasionally call out people (in a friendly way) for saying "I got a promotion to manager!" Someone (usually a more senior manager…
Do you need help? I'm completely on board for that mission and personally feel that we as an industry do a really bad job at testing past the evangelizing phase. Teaching people how to actually test code is something I…
I would! I love coding exercises meant to gain information about a candidate; they're like yardsticks for my professional growth. I love evaluating how I solve a problem now vs how I would have solved it while…
This is a reminder to me that it doesn't matter how great your idea is, or how technically impressive your product is. If the execution isn't right (in this case, who wants to do math awkwardly on their wrist with a…
I'd search for forums for your make and model of car. Those are usually good starting places for getting information.
I completely agree we should stop being paranoid about what's going to happen when we let other people loose on our beautiful code. But I don't think having private methods or marking variables const is about paranoia,…
I love Zed cause even when he's sincerely offering help to someone struggling, he's still 100% Zed; can't even offer help without mentioning how badass he is. Whether you like him or not, being completely and utterly…
Thanks for bringing this up. I'm now waiting to hear from our lawyers to know if we should avoid using this.
Everyone in the company does these as well (our CEO Chad answered did his holiday rotation a couple weeks ago), typically during the holiday season when we slow down our deploys and our support volume increases. But…
HTML5 games! They're easy, quick to set up, the feedback is instant and they're fun to play! I've been making HTML5 games as part of short, two hour collaborative coding exercises at work and it's awesome. Here's a…
Etsy - Brooklyn, NY. Some positions are accepting remotes (check descriptions). https://www.etsy.com/careers We're looking for everyone! Web/mobile apps/tools/testing engineers; Designers; Ops; Marketing; We have a lot…