Category: Musings

  • Human Interaction – Thoughts on Event Planning or what it means to be truly Cross Functional.

    Human Interaction – Thoughts on Event Planning or what it means to be truly Cross Functional.

    I recently completed The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker and it served as a reason to revisit past experiences I’ve had related to the creation/facilitation of successful events. For additional context, there are a few other books that serve as points of reference for this musing. A Quick Word About Event Logistics Logistics are…

  • What’s an Interview?  Some advice for bootcamp grads.

    What’s an Interview? Some advice for bootcamp grads.

    THIS WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED IN 2020, BUT RE-DATED AS STILL VALUABLE TODAY (5/15/2024) Some background: I graduated Flatiron School at the end of August, 2020. Since then I interviewed at two different tech companies, and was fortunate to win both of those positions; the first was a part time job, the second was full time.…

  • Result and Reflection for “My Experiment to Crack the Coding Interview”

    So… my mad ditch effort to pass the mock coding interview (written about in the previous blog here) was not a great success but not a great fail either. In short, I was unable to complete the coding challenge in time, but the interviewer suspected I’d have been able to complete it if given more…

  • Back to the Basics – An Article for Recent Bootcamp Grads

    For those of us who are recent graduates (past 3 months or so) from Software Engineering bootcamps, or about to graduate… I’ve come to realize that no matter what we accomplished, there often seems to be a creeping sense of doubt about how good we really are, what we know or don’t. Perhaps this is…