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I Still Strongly Endorsed the Opportunity", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/06/an-engineering-managers-offer-was-150k.html", "published_at": "2024-06-10T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42afeb46033", "title": "An Engineering Manager Breezed his Way to a Final Onsite but was Immediately Declined - Details Within", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/05/an-engineering-manager-breezed-his-way.html", "published_at": "2024-05-20T00:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42aff8b8449", "title": "A Staff Software Engineer Declined an Opportunity Because it was Not His Dream Role - My Thoughts on the Matter", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-staff-software-engineer-declined.html", "published_at": "2024-05-01T14:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b0076e200", "title": "A Principal Engineer Made it to an On-Site Interview - His Technical Performance Caught Everyone by Surprise", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-principal-engineer-made-it-to-on-site.html", "published_at": "2024-04-15T12:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b0156101a", "title": "An Unemployed Data Engineer Accepted 80k less Total Comp for a Startup Rather than go Big Tech - Here's the Story", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/04/an-unemployed-data-engineer-accepted.html", "published_at": "2024-04-01T12:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b01d1c495", "title": "A Junior Full Stack Engineer Expressed Her Sincere Passion for a Job - It Got Her to the Onsite", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-junior-full-stack-engineer-expressed.html", "published_at": "2024-03-17T23:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b02111b36", "title": "You Get What You Give - A Software Engineer's Approach to an On-Site interview that Backfired", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/02/you-get-what-you-give-software.html", "published_at": "2024-02-12T16:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b024c1692", "title": "Some Words and an Approach I Wanted to Share with Junior/Midlevel Software Engineers", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/02/some-words-and-approach-i-wanted-to.html", "published_at": "2024-02-04T18:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b024f1c26", "title": "A Special Story on Title Concession as Told by an Elite Engineering Executive Here in Austin", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-special-story-on-title-concession-as.html", "published_at": "2024-01-15T16:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b02eebb68", "title": "The Subtle Yet Significant Value of Receiving Praise from Your Software Engineering Peers...", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-subtle-yet-significant-value-of.html", "published_at": "2024-01-01T14:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b036b0f72", "title": "Embracing the Art of Concession in Your Current Job Search", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/12/embracing-art-of-concession-in-your.html", "published_at": "2023-12-11T13:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b03773289", "title": "Tech Salaries Have Been Moving Up - But Not Everyone's Invited to the Party", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/11/tech-salaries-have-been-moving-up-but.html", "published_at": "2023-11-27T13:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b044c2796", "title": "An Engineering Manager and I Prepped for His Final On-Site: I Offered Up a Non-Traditional Approach", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/11/an-engineering-manager-and-i-prepped.html", "published_at": "2023-11-13T01:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b04b966e3", "title": "Remembering Daniel Mahler...", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/10/remembering-daniel-mahler.html", "published_at": "2023-10-30T13:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b059b5046", "title": "If You're Interviewing for Engineering Manager Roles Right Now, Please Avoid Leaving This Kind of Impression", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/10/if-youre-interviewing-for-engineering.html", "published_at": "2023-10-17T14:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b05c510b9", "title": "Managing Your Interview Schedule to Ensure Your Best Performance", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/10/managing-your-interview-schedule-to.html", "published_at": "2023-10-02T13:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b064c5795", "title": "Software Engineers: Being Mindful of the Label \"Atrophy\" in This Current Labor Market", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/09/software-engineers-being-mindful-of.html", "published_at": "2023-09-17T19:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b071262d8", "title": "A Brilliant Software Engineer Used His Words and Sentiment to Secure Multiple Offers", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-brilliant-software-engineer-used-his.html", "published_at": "2023-09-04T16:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b079003f0", "title": "Companies Can Read Your Sentiment and Interest as Well as They Can Read Your Code...", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/08/companies-can-read-your-sentiment-and.html", "published_at": "2023-08-21T12:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb62-00a1-70ae-8f0b-d42b08109719", "title": "My Last Blog Post Was a Beautiful CTO Job Search Story - This One is a Nightmare", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/08/my-last-blog-post-was-beautiful-cto-job.html", "published_at": "2023-08-06T21:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06542faf5", "title": "An Elite CTO Did an Active Job Search Here in Austin - Two Offers Inside One Month - Here's How He Did It", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-elite-cto-did-active-job-search-here.html", "published_at": "2023-07-24T21:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe0656fd25b", "title": "Using the Good Nerves to Your Advantage in your Interviews", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/07/using-good-nerves-to-your-advantage-in.html", "published_at": "2023-07-10T13:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe066043739", "title": "An Elite Engineer Offered Up a Modest Salary Requirement - He was Rewarded Very Nicely for It", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/06/an-elite-engineer-offered-up-modest.html", "published_at": "2023-06-25T19:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe0662140e3", "title": "Taking Your Job Search All the Way Back to the Core Fundamental of Job Security", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/06/taking-your-job-search-all-way-back-to.html", "published_at": "2023-06-01T13:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe066969c30", "title": "LATAM/Nearshore Hiring is Hot Right Now - It Will Eventually Run Its Course", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/05/latamnearshore-hiring-is-hot-right-now.html", "published_at": "2023-05-15T16:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe066a30899", "title": "Software Engineers: We've Come Down on Money. Can We Be Flexible on Our Titles Now?", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/05/software-engineers-weve-come-down-on.html", "published_at": "2023-05-01T12:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe066b45937", "title": "A Brilliant Austin Based CTO's Observation on the Current Labor Market", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-brilliant-austin-based-ctos.html", "published_at": "2023-04-17T14:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06726a7d5", "title": "A Strong Backend Engineer Presented Himself as Low Maintenance in his Interview - It Got Him Rejected", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-strong-backend-engineer-presented.html", "published_at": "2023-04-04T12:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe067e06310", "title": "A Strong Machine Learning Engineer Recently Made it to Offer Stage with a FAANG Firm Only to be Thrown a Curve Ball", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-strong-machine-learning-engineer.html", "published_at": "2023-03-20T14:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe0681145d7", "title": "A Strong Backend Engineer Crushed the Technical Interview but Bombed Culturally", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-strong-backend-engineer-crushed.html", "published_at": "2023-03-05T22:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe068bf5450", "title": "When Presenting Your Salary Requirements Please Reference Your Rank/Seniority at Your Employer", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/02/when-presenting-your-salary.html", "published_at": "2023-02-21T12:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe069aa1991", "title": "Three Separate Examples of Software Engineer's Lowering their Compensation Requirements", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/02/three-separate-examples-of-software.html", "published_at": "2023-02-06T14:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe069ae05a0", "title": "Laid Off and Actively Searching? Please be More Flexible on Salary Requirements", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/01/laid-off-and-actively-searching-please.html", "published_at": "2023-01-19T15:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06a9f3439", "title": "In Today's Market, Is It Worthwhile to Quit Your Current Job Without Having Another Job Lined Up?", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2023/01/in-todays-market-is-it-worthwhile-to.html", "published_at": "2023-01-02T15:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06b80d5ab", "title": "A Solid Mid-Level Mobile Developer was Offered 122k Base and Bonus from a Corporate Employer - Here Were My Thoughts", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-solid-mid-level-mobile-developer-was.html", "published_at": "2022-12-13T15:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06b9f9c13", "title": "A VP of Engineering Wants to Ask for a Raise at his Company - Here Were My Thoughts", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-vp-of-engineering-wants-to-ask-for.html", "published_at": "2022-12-01T15:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06bd85014", "title": "An Elite VP of Engineering Was Made an Offer - He Countered and the Company Rescinded...", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/11/an-elite-vp-of-engineering-was-made.html", "published_at": "2022-11-14T13:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06bfc050d", "title": "A Small Etiquette Hiccup in a Virtual Interview That Led to a Candidate Dropout", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-small-etiquette-hiccup-in-virtual.html", "published_at": "2022-11-01T14:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06caead84", "title": "Employ Some Finesse When Asking for a Deadline Extension on Your Offer", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/10/employ-some-finesse-when-asking-for.html", "published_at": "2022-10-12T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06da36a75", "title": "Two Engineers Interviewed With Amazon for Eight Weeks Only to be Rejected - My Thoughts on this Experience", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/10/two-engineers-interviewed-with-amazon.html", "published_at": "2022-10-09T18:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06e620674", "title": "In this Current Labor Market Please Don't Worry About the Short Job Tenures on Your Resume", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/10/in-this-current-labor-market-please.html", "published_at": "2022-10-05T14:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06e7ee9cd", "title": "A Midlevel SW Engineer Making 160k Base Asked for 190k Base - Here are the Details", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-midlevel-sw-engineer-making-160k-base.html", "published_at": "2022-09-19T12:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06ecc1493", "title": "Currently Interview for a Job? Eliminating Your Title Requirement", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/09/currently-interview-for-job-eliminating.html", "published_at": "2022-09-05T19:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06f91c1b3", "title": "Discussing Some of the New Salary Ranges Emerging in the Tech Labor Market", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/08/discussing-some-of-new-salary-ranges.html", "published_at": "2022-08-21T19:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb68-36e6-7223-8888-efe06ffa0758", "title": "Your First Interview with a Software Firm is Happening in Four Days - A Unique Approach to Consider", "url": "https://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2022/08/your-first-interview-with-software-firm.html", "published_at": "2022-08-07T20:41:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

A Full-Stack Software Engineer's Interviewing Performance That Resulted in an Immediate Judgement Against Himoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
The Professional Network Challenges Being Realized by a Top 1% 44 Year Old Software Engineeroriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
A Question that a Software Engineer is 100% Entitled to Ask Before the First Interview...original ↗
15 Aug 2026
The Job Search Value of Being Flexible on Your Software Engineering Title...original ↗
2 Aug 2026
A Non-Traditional Reply I Sent to a VP of Engineering Regarding a Software Engineer's Salary Requirements...original ↗
19 Jul 2026
The Value That Humility Can Bring to a Software Engineering Intervieworiginal ↗
2 Jul 2026
Some Judgements Recently Applied to a Principal Software Engineer Which Resulted in Him Being Declinedoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
A Disappointing Reality Not Too Many People are Talking about in the Tech Labor Markets Right Noworiginal ↗
31 May 2026
The Critical Value of Positive Backchannel Reference Checks in the Software Engineering Professionoriginal ↗
17 May 2026
A Software Engineer Declined by a Company for Their Lack to Adapt to Organizational Changeoriginal ↗
3 May 2026
A Special Moment of "Flourishing" a Software Engineer Realized With a Startup Here in Austinoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2026
An Elite Software Engineer's Company Laid Off 25 People - My Advice to Him Since He was Not Impactedoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2026
A Moment of Contention I Had with ClaudeAI and a Senior Software Engineeroriginal ↗
22 Mar 2026
A Really Productive Salary Negotiation Conversation I Had With A Brilliant 25 year old Software Engineeroriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026
Discussing the Critical Importance of a Healthy Software Engineering Culture...original ↗
22 Feb 2026
When the Interviewing Process with a Startup Includes Venture Capital Advisors - Insights Withinoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
Some Recent Salary Offers that Went Out to Some VP's of Engineering Here in Austinoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2026
Some Nice Salary/Offer Negoation Orchestrated by a Recent Computer Science Graduateoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2026

2025

A Salary Negotiation Strategy I Offered to a Senior Software Engineer That Worked Out Very Welloriginal ↗
14 Dec 2025
A Spontaneous Move by a Software Engineer that Resulted in a Very Nice Light Being Shown on Him...original ↗
30 Nov 2025
Software Engineers: Please Bring Some Strong Positive Energy to the Interviewing Processoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2025
The Art Form of Concession on a Potential Offer That I Kindly Suggested to a Head of Software Engineering Here in Austin...original ↗
2 Nov 2025
Software Engineers - Please Be Mindful of the Delicate Balance Between Self-Confidence and Arroganceoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2025
A Polite Question Software Engineers are Entitled to Ask at the Offer Stageoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
Software Engineers - Save Your Generic Questions for the Offer Stage...original ↗
14 Sept 2025
Software Engineers - Please Never Forget that your Communication and Cultural Skills are Also Evaluatedoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2025
A Talented 24 Year Old Full Stack Developer Received an Offer from a Seed Stage Startup - My Words I Shared with Himoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2025
A Top 1% VP of Engineering Spoke About "Leveling Up" the Software Engineers Working for Them - Full Story Withinoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2025
First Impressions of Some Software Engineering Resumes from a 31 Year Old Hiring Manageroriginal ↗
19 Jul 2025
Salary Negotiation Story Part 2 - A Full Stack Engineer Did Not Negotiate His Offer at All - The Result was Celebratoryoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2025
Salary Discussions with a UI Developer That Resulted in a Rescinded Offer the Next Dayoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2025
A Top 1% Engineering Leader's Narrative Regarding His Experience at Rice University...original ↗
1 Jun 2025
The Nervousness and Anxiety that Impacted a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer's Code Test Performance...original ↗
15 May 2025
Please Be Mindful When Having "High Level" Software Engineering Conversationsoriginal ↗
2 May 2025
The Beautiful Simplicity of an Austin, Texas Software Engineering Legendoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2025
A Simple Narrative to Help Confirm that You are a Strong Software Engineering Culture Matchoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2025
Some Software Engineering Salary Ranges Currently Present Here in Austinoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2025
How Starting an Interview Process with a Code Test Can Work to Your Advantage - A True Story Within...original ↗
2 Mar 2025
My Sincere Proclamation to a Talented 29 Year Old Software Engineer About the Value of Returning to Officeoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2025
A Senior Full-Stack Engineer Immediately Secured an Interview with a Series-A Startup but was Quickly Declined - Details Withinoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2025
Keeping it Simple and Modest in the Presentation of Our Software Engineering Identityoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2025
Disclosing Your Seniority and Rank In Your Introductory Software Engineering Intervieworiginal ↗
6 Jan 2025

2024

Exploring the Art of Concession When It Comes to Disclosing Your Salary Requirementsoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2024
Interviewing for an IC Role at a Startup? Please Be Careful When Inquiring Into Leadership Roles - Real Story Withinoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2024
A Senior Software Engineer was Defined as "Dull and Disengaged" After His Interview - How to Prevent This From Happening to Youoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2024
An Engineering Manager Had a Final Interview with the Company's VP of Engineering - The Insights I Shared with Himoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2024
A Software Engineer with 11 Years Industry Experience was Referenced as "Junior" - How to Avoid Such an Experienceoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2024
A Staff Backend Developer Disagreed with a Company's Rank After His Technical Assessment - Details Withinoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2024
Unorthodox in the Approach, a Midlevel Fullstack Developer Greatly Impressed a VP of Engineeringoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2024
An Elite Executive's Observations on my Last Blog Post about the Overbearing CTOoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2024
A Staff Software Engineer's Emotional Struggles with an Overbearing CTOoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2024
An Unemployed Data Engineer Declined an Offer Due to In-Office Requirements - My Thoughts on his Decisionoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2024
A 67 Year Old Site Reliability Engineer Landed an Offer for 175k Annual Cash - Here's How He Did Itoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2024
A Talented Software Engineer Interviewed with a Series B Startup but was Immediately Rejected - Details Withinoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2024
A 22 Year Old College Graduate Landed an Offer with a Top Tier Startup Here in Austin - Here's How He Did Itoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2024
An Engineering Manager's Offer Was 150k Less Than his Last Job - I Still Strongly Endorsed the Opportunityoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2024
An Engineering Manager Breezed his Way to a Final Onsite but was Immediately Declined - Details Withinoriginal ↗
20 May 2024
A Staff Software Engineer Declined an Opportunity Because it was Not His Dream Role - My Thoughts on the Matteroriginal ↗
1 May 2024
A Principal Engineer Made it to an On-Site Interview - His Technical Performance Caught Everyone by Surpriseoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2024
An Unemployed Data Engineer Accepted 80k less Total Comp for a Startup Rather than go Big Tech - Here's the Storyoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2024
A Junior Full Stack Engineer Expressed Her Sincere Passion for a Job - It Got Her to the Onsiteoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2024
You Get What You Give - A Software Engineer's Approach to an On-Site interview that Backfiredoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2024
Some Words and an Approach I Wanted to Share with Junior/Midlevel Software Engineersoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2024
A Special Story on Title Concession as Told by an Elite Engineering Executive Here in Austinoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2024
The Subtle Yet Significant Value of Receiving Praise from Your Software Engineering Peers...original ↗
1 Jan 2024

2023

Embracing the Art of Concession in Your Current Job Searchoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2023
Tech Salaries Have Been Moving Up - But Not Everyone's Invited to the Partyoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2023
An Engineering Manager and I Prepped for His Final On-Site: I Offered Up a Non-Traditional Approachoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2023
Remembering Daniel Mahler...original ↗
30 Oct 2023
If You're Interviewing for Engineering Manager Roles Right Now, Please Avoid Leaving This Kind of Impressionoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2023
Managing Your Interview Schedule to Ensure Your Best Performanceoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2023
Software Engineers: Being Mindful of the Label "Atrophy" in This Current Labor Marketoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2023
A Brilliant Software Engineer Used His Words and Sentiment to Secure Multiple Offersoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2023
Companies Can Read Your Sentiment and Interest as Well as They Can Read Your Code...original ↗
21 Aug 2023
My Last Blog Post Was a Beautiful CTO Job Search Story - This One is a Nightmareoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2023
An Elite CTO Did an Active Job Search Here in Austin - Two Offers Inside One Month - Here's How He Did Itoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2023
Using the Good Nerves to Your Advantage in your Interviewsoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2023
An Elite Engineer Offered Up a Modest Salary Requirement - He was Rewarded Very Nicely for Itoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2023
Taking Your Job Search All the Way Back to the Core Fundamental of Job Securityoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2023
LATAM/Nearshore Hiring is Hot Right Now - It Will Eventually Run Its Courseoriginal ↗
15 May 2023
Software Engineers: We've Come Down on Money. Can We Be Flexible on Our Titles Now?original ↗
1 May 2023
A Brilliant Austin Based CTO's Observation on the Current Labor Marketoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2023
A Strong Backend Engineer Presented Himself as Low Maintenance in his Interview - It Got Him Rejectedoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2023
A Strong Machine Learning Engineer Recently Made it to Offer Stage with a FAANG Firm Only to be Thrown a Curve Balloriginal ↗
20 Mar 2023
A Strong Backend Engineer Crushed the Technical Interview but Bombed Culturallyoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2023
When Presenting Your Salary Requirements Please Reference Your Rank/Seniority at Your Employeroriginal ↗
21 Feb 2023
Three Separate Examples of Software Engineer's Lowering their Compensation Requirementsoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2023
Laid Off and Actively Searching? Please be More Flexible on Salary Requirementsoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2023
In Today's Market, Is It Worthwhile to Quit Your Current Job Without Having Another Job Lined Up?original ↗
2 Jan 2023

2022

A Solid Mid-Level Mobile Developer was Offered 122k Base and Bonus from a Corporate Employer - Here Were My Thoughtsoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2022
A VP of Engineering Wants to Ask for a Raise at his Company - Here Were My Thoughtsoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2022
An Elite VP of Engineering Was Made an Offer - He Countered and the Company Rescinded...original ↗
14 Nov 2022
A Small Etiquette Hiccup in a Virtual Interview That Led to a Candidate Dropoutoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2022
Employ Some Finesse When Asking for a Deadline Extension on Your Offeroriginal ↗
12 Oct 2022
Two Engineers Interviewed With Amazon for Eight Weeks Only to be Rejected - My Thoughts on this Experienceoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2022
In this Current Labor Market Please Don't Worry About the Short Job Tenures on Your Resumeoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2022
A Midlevel SW Engineer Making 160k Base Asked for 190k Base - Here are the Detailsoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2022
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