#245 - What Developers Get Wrong About Interviews
I spent a few years as an engineering manager, and my buddy Zubin, a former Google engineer, is currently hiring developers at his company. Between the two of us, we’ve seen the good, the bad, and the...
5 Kesä 202536min
#244 - From Zero to Software Engineer After 30: My Journey and What You Need to Know
Ever feel like you missed your chance to break into tech? That 30 marks some invisible deadline for career reinvention? I've been there—and I'm here to tell you it's absolutely false.My journey from a...
2 Kesä 202518min
#243 - The 70% Problem: When AI Coding Falls Short
What happens when software engineers rely too heavily on AI-assisted coding tools? Brian and Zubin (an ex-Google engineer) dive deep into what they call "The 70% Problem" – the phenomenon where AI cod...
29 Touko 202534min
#242 - How Anne Got a Developer Job WITHOUT LinkedIn or LeetCode
What happens when a music educator with performance anxiety decides to become a software developer?Anne discovered coding through The Odin Project and immediately recognized a familiar pattern-based t...
26 Touko 202533min
#241 - The Bootcamp Era Is Dead — And That’s Great News for Developers
AI didn’t kill bootcamps — shallow learning did.So what skills actually matter now that building a CRUD app is a commodity?And can you learn them without working at a company or getting a CS degree?In...
22 Touko 202517min
#240 - Navigating the Front-End Landscape: A Senior Developer's Perspective on AI Tools, Front End interviews and What Makes You "Senior"
Yasemin, a senior front-end developer with a decade of experience, shares insights on career progression in front-end development and how the transition from junior to senior is more about mindset tha...
19 Touko 202524min
#239 - Is Learning to Code Still Worth It? A Senior Developer's Perspective
Chris, a mentee at Parsity was feeling a bit down and asked me straight up what I think about the future of coding careers.I had to really think about it.With headlines screaming about AI taking our j...
15 Touko 202514min
#238 - My Experience in Vibe Coding Hell
A rant on the myth of developer productivity with AI and my experience in vibe coding hell with a team of senior engineers.- Why Vibe Coding is great for prototyping and terrible for real software- Wh...
12 Touko 202520min
