Tagged: career

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Take-Home Assignments That Don’t Waste People’s Time

I’ve been on both sides of the take-home. The good ones share scope, time boxes, and a clear rubric. Here’s what we changed and why.

I Banned Stack Overflow for a Week: What I Used Instead, and What I Learned

Five days without the internet’s biggest copy-paste reservoir. The replacements weren’t magic — but they changed how I diagnose problems.

How I Read an Unfamiliar Codebase Without Pretending to Be a Genius

A repeatable order of operations for navigating a new codebase: entrypoints first, data flow second, opinions last.