What I look for in a codebase in the first hour
A checklist for assessing an unfamiliar codebase quickly — for a job, a due diligence, or a project you inherited.
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7 pieces tagged careers,
from April 25, 2025 to July 24, 2026.
The onboarding document that actually works
Most onboarding docs are written by people who already know. Here is what a new engineer needs on day one, in order.
What a staff engineer does all day
The role is genuinely ambiguous and that ambiguity is load-bearing. An attempt at a concrete description.
Hiring juniors in 2026
The entry-level pipeline is breaking in a way that will be expensive in five years. Some of the fixes are cheap.
Reading code is a skill and nobody teaches it
We spend years learning to write and approximately zero hours learning to read. Then we spend our careers reading.
The technical interview is measuring the wrong thing, again
Every hiring process eventually optimizes for the wrong signal. The current one has a new failure mode.
Shopify's memo and the new hiring question
"Prove AI can't do this job" as a requirement before headcount. A reasonable policy with an unreasonable failure mode.