Tech Candidate Spotlight – Surya Ramaraj, Sr Software Engineer
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Hired Tech Candidate Spotlight – Paula Muldoon, Senior Software Engineer for Zopa in the UK
We understand you started in a different field or pivoted from a different type of degree and education, tell us…
Are Remote Tech Jobs Here to Stay?
What You’ll Learn What’s changed recently in remote work A review of the types of remote work including definitions What…
4 Things I Wish I had Done Immediately After Graduating a Programming Bootcamp
The process of securing a job after completing a coding bootcamp is not automatic. The good news is that coding…
How to Get Up to Speed in an Unfamiliar Codebase
When you start a new job as a software engineer, whether it’s your first or 10th, one of the BEST…
Test Driven Development: What, Why, and How?
If you’re in the business of writing code (or leading teams that do so), Test Driven Development has likely come…
The Fullstack Development Journey Part III: Tying It All Together
If you haven’t already, it will be helpful to read Part I and Part II of “The Full Stack Development Journey” before…
Data Reveals the Hottest Coding Languages
As any software engineer will tell you, there are a plethora of coding languages out there and varying attitudes toward…
Top Podcasts for Software Engineers
No matter where you are in your software development career, it’s important to keep a pulse of new trends and…
Effective Strategies for Negotiating Up Your Salary as Software Engineer
Whether you’re looking for a new role or hoping to earn more within your current company, negotiating over your salary…
How Mindfulness Can Make You a Better Programmer
Maybe it was the last time you listened to a podcast, skimmed recent headlines, or caught up with friends, but…
How to Work with Product Designers as a Software Engineer
So you’ve joined a new team, and now you get to work with a product designer, or maybe you’ve been…
Marketing Yourself as a Developer
This blog post was originally a set of minutes I took for my Makers Academy cohort on a job hunting talk — I’ve since…
Why You Should Learn Javascript in 2018
As a software developer, staying up-to-date with the latest tech and development is part of the job. That includes keeping…
Planning for and Responding to Software Failures
You’ve probably heard Murphy’s law: “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.” That sounds hyperbolic, perhaps because it’s a watered-down…
Want To Stand Out Amongst Software Engineers? Try Competitive Programming
In a world full of established talent and up-and-coming self-trained coders, it can be difficult to stand out as a…
Hyphenated Routes in Rails
If you’ve ever looked at a blog post online, chances are the last thing you really paid any attention to…
Writing Self-Documenting Code
Writing clear, understandable code for complex systems can be challenging. In this post, we’ll explore the concept of self-documenting code as…
Getting Started with Kinesis
Amazon Redshift is a great tool for data warehousing. At Hired, we use it in combination with Looker to provide business…
Fixtures and Factories: Balancing Trade-offs (Part 1)
ActiveRecord models are at the heart of many Rails applications, so having a fast and convenient way to create or…
Top Engineers Think Beyond Their Job Title
As an engineer, there’s no doubt that technical prowess will carry you far. But there’s a side to engineering that…
Our Hackathon Helped Us Get Work Done Faster
We finished our yearly hackathon recently and wanted to share what worked well, what we plan to change, and what we…
Finally Trying ActionCable
Hired is a predominately Rails based application – the “majestic monolith” as DHH would call it. It’s five years old,…
Always Wrap Third-Party API Clients
Have you seen Ruby code like this? class AwardsController < ApplicationController def create User.find(params[:user_id]).give_award alert_user_on_slack(‘Congratulations!’) end private def alert_user_on_slack(text)…
Deploying Hundreds of Thousands of SEO Pages with a Few Lines of Code in Rails
When I joined Hired about 3 years ago, we basically had a Home page, About page, and not much else….
Why These 5 Engineering Roles are Most In Demand in 2018
When it comes to recruiting for tech jobs, you only need to know one word: engineering. New data from Hired…
How to Use Your Programming Skills for Social Impact
If you’re interested in giving back this holiday season and throughout the new year, consider gifting your tech know-how. As…