Life would be so much easier, if we could just get user manuals to understand other people. We would just read a rough summary before the first encounter, highly increasing chances for great first impression. If we would spend more time with this person, we could look into the details in the manual, get the nitty gritty details. What stops us from doing that?

Almost every bigger company is looking for software engineers these days, and still, I claim that starting your first job in IT is not easy. The reason is, that everyone is looking for experienced individuals - not juniors or starters. Here's my advice on how to land this first job.

While working with people, you constantly battle through tough choices. Multiple times, each decision will have their solid arguments and supporters. The 'Washington Post test' may be an useful trick in your toolbelt to make that choice easier.

For over a year now I'm working in GAT as a full time engineering manager. During that time I've basically stopped contributing to the codebase. Recently, I've got opportunity to commit a couple of small updates here and there. And I've learned a lot thanks to that.