Why software engineers should know their audience
When you're talking about what you're working on, do you ever stop to think about what you're saying and whether the person you're talking to can actually understand it?
When you're talking about what you're working on, do you ever stop to think about what you're saying and whether the person you're talking to can actually understand it?
Tech job interviews are often different flavours of the same thing, regardless of where you apply. Interviewers are likely to ask you questions about your experiences, perhaps a hypothetical question about what you might do in a certain situation, or delve into some of the how-it-works stuff under the hood of whatever programming language you'll be using. However, there's one question that you can guarantee will come up: 'Do you have any questions for us?'
In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you're not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I'm a software engineer with several years' experience.
Three years ago I wrote a post listing everything I googled in a week. I'm a senior engineer and web eng lead now, and guess what: I still google a lot. Here's everything I googled in a week, 2022 edition.