Software Engineering Director https://www.alexdangelo.com/ - Every month Hacker News has a “Who Is Hiring” thread. I posted a single job for a full-stack software engineer on Nov 2, 2020. Summary: Most applicants are fresh out of university or a coding school and have 0-2 years experience, are male, and located in the US. Discussion: The... Sun, 15 Nov 2020 11:15:00 -0800 https://www.alexdangelo.com/my-experience-posting-a-job-on-hacker-news-nov-2020/ https://www.alexdangelo.com/my-experience-posting-a-job-on-hacker-news-nov-2020/ - I posted info about myself on the June 2020 “Who Wants to be Hired” thread on Hacker News. The thread has lots of posts of people covering a wide variety of technical roles and locations. What would happen if I did it? Who looks at this? This is my anecdotal... Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:03:00 -0700 https://www.alexdangelo.com/my-experience-posting-on-who-wants-to-be-hired-thread-on-hacker-news/ https://www.alexdangelo.com/my-experience-posting-on-who-wants-to-be-hired-thread-on-hacker-news/ A quick guide to understanding how I work - If we ever get a chance to work together, this is a summary of how I operate, my motivations, and what I have to offer. As a manager I want you to grow and flourish in your career. I want you to enjoy what you work on, to have opportunities... Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://www.alexdangelo.com/manager-readme-for-alex-dangelo/ https://www.alexdangelo.com/manager-readme-for-alex-dangelo/ Let's be kind to ourselves - When a bug is found, how does the team react? Finding the person to blame is the easiest, especially when it happens in production. But is that the most important thing? The author of the bug already feels bad enough, shaming them won’t help much, other than to instill dread.... Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0700 https://www.alexdangelo.com/making-mistakes/ https://www.alexdangelo.com/making-mistakes/ Spark creativity by working differently - “Wow, this is the coolest company”. Not our words but from a candidate here to interview for a job. The person at the front desk was asked about what we were doing and said we were engineers hacking out a feature together. She even encouraged us to come back and... Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0700 https://www.alexdangelo.com/every-day-is-hack-day/ https://www.alexdangelo.com/every-day-is-hack-day/ Be playful - A typical exchange completely between new account managers and the product development team for an internal tool: AM: “Please grant me access” Dev: “Done” AM: “Thank you!” Mechanical but it gets the job done and everyone moves on. But what if we were a little playful? What does that bring... Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0700 https://www.alexdangelo.com/be-playful/ https://www.alexdangelo.com/be-playful/