experienced_devs

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9846214...

I noticed that some of the mods here are also the mods of r/experienceddevs. That subreddit is quite active. Perhaps it would be effective to have automoderator throw a sticky on every post there, just saying welcome to r/ExperiencedDevs, please follow the rules, etc and at the bottom: Did you know we have a Lemmy community?...

Last year, the company I work for was looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer. Above all, we wanted our interview to favor candidates that are good fits. Now, after working with our new hire for about 11 months, we know that we succeeded. This is how we went about designing the interview.

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6236976...

I am a self-taught programmer and I do not have imposter syndrome. I have a degree in electrical engineering and when I thought that was going to be my career I did have imposter syndrome, so I’m not immune. I wonder if there’s a correlation. It seems that many if not most professionals suffer from imposter syndrome; I...

My last job was at a company that designed and built satellites to order. There was a well defined process for this, and systems engineers were a big part of it. Maybe my experience there is distorting my perspective, but it seems to me that any sufficiently complex project needs to include systems engineering, even if the...

Assuming you have one at all, what time do you have your daily stand up meeting? Are there reasons why you have it at that time? Do you like having it at that time?

I’m working on a website that can be best described as “OkCupid crossed with LinkedIn”. It aims to help employers and potential employees to figure out if there is a good fit between professionals (whether they are looking for a job or not) and their positions within the team....

I’m new to this weekly syncup thing with my manager and he already knows the things I work on through daily standups, the issues I’ve faced or things that have gone great through retros after every sprint....

I got a reply from a recruiter to setup a call later this week. I know one of the inevitable questions will be why am I looking to leave my current role....

this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer...

End to end and smoke tests give a really valuable angle on what the app is doing and can warn you about failures before they happen. However, because they’re working with a live app and a live database over a live network, they can introduce a lot of flakiness. Beyond just changes to the app, different data in the environment...

I looked for Senior Software Developer positions, and one of the things that I’ve noticed is that lots of enterprises look for people with experience with technologies such as .NET and C#....

More specifically, I’m thinking about two different modes of development for a library (private to the company) that’s already relied upon by other libraries and applications:...

Any recommendations?

What is your opinion about full-stack teams? I’m referring to teams where the desire is for every member to competently contribute at every point in the stack....

Domain-driven design includes the idea of a “ubiquitous language” where the engineers and the domain experts and the product owners come together and agree on terminology for all the domain concepts, and the project then uses that terminology everywhere....

.yaml, .toml, etc?

I’m like a test unitarian. Unit tests? Great. Integration tests? Awesome. End to end tests? If you’re into that kind of thing, go for it. Coverage of lines of code doesn’t matter. Coverage of critical business functions does. I think TDD can be a cult, but writing software that way for a little bit is a good training...

Hey! So to make a long story short, about 2 months ago I learned that I’ll probably be PIP’ed (posted about this here btw and received super helpful advice, thanks

So my company has a budget of around 200$ which would expire by the year end if I don’t spend it on courses, books, trainings, etc....

What’s something you’ve gotten into your CICD pipeline recently that you like?...

Over the years I feel brainwashed by the thoughts of others with no willpower to affirm my own beliefs....

DORA metrics aren’t enough on their own. Here’s how dev teams can make the leap to elite performance by focusing on pull request size and dev workflow while improving their cycle time.