I’ve been in and around eng hiring for the past 13 years, as an engineer, a recruiter, and a founder of a technical recruiting marketplace (interviewing.io). Over the course of those 13 years, I’ve become increasingly disgruntled at the state of hiring, and now I’m mad enough to write this blog post. If you’ve ever […]
The unvarnished, unbundled guide to hiring tools
I get a lot of questions about which hiring tools do what and how they’re different from each other, so I decided to draw an ugly, yet handy, picture (see below). By the way, the reason this post has “unbundled” in the title is that many hiring tools, in part because we’re all on the […]
Thinking about attending a coding bootcamp? Ask them these questions first.
I get a lot of emails from prospective career changers who’ve read my stuff (especially the one in Forbes where I went off about how MS degrees in computer science are snake oil) asking for advice about breaking into software engineering. Many of them ask about bootcamps. Almost all are surprised by the harsh reality […]
How to write stuff that gets on the front page of Hacker News
EDIT: This piece did indeed make it to the front page of Hacker News in a meta victory. Thank God. Hi. My name is Aline, leeny on Hacker News. My team at interviewing.io and I have written a lot of stuff, and most of it has been on the Hacker News front page — of […]
Diversity quotas suck. Here’s why.
A few days ago, I contributed to a roundtable discussion-style post about diversity quotas (that is, setting specific hiring targets around race and gender) on the Key Values blog. Writing my bit there was a good forcing function for exploring the issue of diversity quotas at a bit more length… and if I’m honest, this […]