A quick note of encouragement — and a small joke — for friends and colleagues currently grinding through LeetCode for their next tech interview.
To my friends and colleagues currently grinding on LeetCode, I’m rooting for you.
Eleven patterns I have seen repeatedly while coaching senior engineers, product leaders, directors, and VPs. I wish someone had told me number 9 when I was on the hiring side.
One type is complaining about how bad the job market has become. The other is landing roles while everyone else is still refreshing job boards. Here are the four things that separate them — none of them magic.
41% of companies have cut management and leadership layers this year. Most senior leaders on the market are running the same playbook they would have run in 2021 — and stalling for 6 to 9 months. Here is what the leaders who land in 8 to 10 weeks are doing differently.
A senior product leader at a FAANG company could not see himself clearly enough to position what he actually brought to the table. He was not the problem — context was. Here is what happens when that context disappears overnight.