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Whiteboard Interviews: Why They’re Bad For Technical Interviewing

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Whiteboard interviews have traditionally been a go-to method for evaluating technical candidates. Heres a detailed look at why whiteboard interviews are falling short, supported by alternative methods that deliver better results for technical hiring. These are far more relevant in a real-world tech role.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence.

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The reason India does not have enough awesome developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A never-ending debate is that about the quality of Indian software developers. It is said that most developers around the world begin coding at a ridiculously young age. Hence, we have always heard time and again that Indian software developers are ok-to-mediocre coders, are not technically competent, and most times, clueless.

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Editor's Soapbox: Y2K25

The Daily WTF

Nothing bad happened, and we all overreacted. The economy was up, lifted in part by a tech bubble which had yet to pop. The Vibe of Y2K We'll talk about the technical challenges of the Y2K bug, but honestly, I think it's less interesting than the vibe. In the run up, people were selling books to help you prep.

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How real-time operational insights drive superior tech platform development

CIO

As SaaS solutions gain greater market share, and build mindshare, operational know-how is becoming critical to both their development and evolution. One of the biggest issues for any development team is obtaining real and timely user feedback. Traditional development approaches can also cause lengthy release cycles.

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What Makes a Tech Interview Great? Hear an Engineer’s Perspective

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The best way to gauge what a role can offer is during the technical interview process. When we asked Piyush Tripathi, the Lead Engineer at Square about the elements he looks for in tech interviews, he shared: When interviewing with tech companies such as Amazon, Twilio and SendGrid, I focus on several key factors.