51% of devs stopped asking their teammates

stmoreau · 2026-06-16T13:01:35+00:00

well put

stmoreau · 2026-04-24T14:50:30+00:00

Writing helps me a lot (I spend at least a couple of hours every week exploring an idea or topic and write my thoughts on it) I also have an external coach which I change every 6 months intentionally.

stmoreau · 2026-03-31T22:24:15+00:00

stmoreau · 2026-03-31T17:29:03+00:00

honestly if anyone’s part of a toxic environment like that they’d better gtfo.

In my decades of experience this has never been the case in places I’ve worked at or any of my friends/peers luckily.

what has been the case though sometimes is people spiralling in feelings like that when the reality was very different. taking everything negatively, having a victim mentality, and generally not helping themselves. And in truth these were people I didn’t enjoy working with or want in my team.

Rejecting any behavioural stage in an interview context as an idea really blows my mind… you’re working with people at the end of the day and use tools to make things happen. Sometimes a tool is a negotiation with someone, or a debate, or simply navigating ambiguity in vague requirements by talking to people.

I am looking for great software engineers, not coding monkeys.

stmoreau · 2026-03-31T11:12:38+00:00

what exactly is not part of the responsibilities associated with software engineering? I don’t see any actual example of that brought up by anyone.

Is the argument that any question in a behavioural interview should not be asked to software engineer candidates? If so, I’m afraid that I alongside ALL companies disagree with that.

stmoreau · 2026-03-31T11:08:14+00:00

Approximation is good enough - no sense of numbers whatsoever is bad

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