Category: Software Engineering
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I wish Xcode was more like Visual Studio when coding C++
For a long time I thought Visual Studio was probably better at coding in C++ than Xcode, mostly based on anecdotal evidence. I have now worked with Xcode for more than a year and can root my opinion in some concrete differences. While I was writing the original draft for this post, Visual Studio apparently…
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What 5 years of interviewing software engineers taught me
From 2017 to 2023 I interviewed and evaluated over 100 C++ software engineering candidates, with the final three years also covering Python. In this article I’ll cover key lessons I learned from this experience, including: The TL/DR for the time poor reader: Test your software engineering candidates in the exact types of problems they’re likely…