Oh imagine a land It’s a faraway place Where the good faith debates are held Where the winner is the best Where each point gets addressed And the bad faith ones are quelled Where the activist…| Axol's Blog
Caleb racked his brain trying to come up with the right dynamic programming recurrence for this medium LeetCode problem. He’d never used DP at work. In fact, he didn’t believe anyone had. So why did companies keep asking them? It wasn’t like it mattered anyway, since he couldn’t even get past the resume screening. It […]| Axol's Blog
Caleb published his pull request. It had been Steve’s idea to wait until the last day of the sprint before doing so. As he put it, “Such pressure causes standards to buckle.” In t…| Axol's Blog
The circularity Of meritocracy I see hypocrisy Don’t think it’s lost on me Joe: Schools are a meritocracy, because the best students get the best grades. Amy: What it does it mean to be the best student? Joe: Studying, doing assignments, and acing tests to get the best grades. Joe: Successful company leadership is a […]| Axol's Blog
“Have you ever pondered how user privileges are stored?” Steve asked. “In our PostgreSQL database, obviously. It’s the only one we have.” Caleb responded nonchalantly, wishing the company had licensed a NoSQL database as well. “How. Not where.” Caleb hadn’t the faintest clue. He’d never ventured outside the schema holding the tables of the greenfield […]| Axol's Blog
Caleb’s senior engineer coworker, Greg, gave his standup update, “So umm yeah, yesterday I spent like an hour updating my JIRA tickets, and I had to pick up my daughter from school. Tha…| Axol's Blog
Steve Miller’s calendar had been filled up to the next two weeks. The sprint would be over by then, and Caleb would take the blame for failing his task. He had to come up with something quick. Maybe ambush Steve with a Teams call the second his status turned green in between meetings. It was […]| Axol's Blog
A great pleasure of remote work is that you can go a whole workday without interacting with anyone. Bonus if you’re a self-described “introverted” engineer who finds conversation …| Axol's Blog
Meet Caleb. He has built his career on his architectural and greenfield implementation skills; always fortunate enough to not have to tangle with the horrors of legacy code throughout his three yea…| Axol's Blog
Meet Devon. He has worked as a backend software developer for eight years. He specializes in Java, and only Java. It was the first programming language he learned and it’s the last one heR…| Axol's Blog
Here’s a riddle: What do TDD and communism have in common? The answer: Everyone has their own idea of what it should look like, so you’re always doing it wrong. You’d think that a…| Axol's Blog
