Friday Links: Layoffs, outliers, and interviewing
13 Jun 2025 #mondaylinksHey, there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. The day I “was let go” last year, I was told it was because of how tough the economy was doing. High interest rates? AI? But this news article shows the real reason behind layoffs in the tech sector (10min). Spoiler alert: nothing to do with AI.
#2. With AI, our job is to know when to introduce outliers (4min). “In a sea of fish, you want to be a narwhal.”
#3. Like coding, interviewing is another skill to master. Yes, I agree the tech interview is broken and we don’t know how to fix it. But if you’re actively interviewing, here are 8 dos and don’ts to ace your next interviews.
#4. At some point we all as coders have to make a choice: stay technical or jump the management track. The thing is being an engineering manager has never been harder (5min), too many hats to wear.
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about 10 steps I’d take to build a profitable brand from scratch (4min) and 10 lessons I learned from the worst moment of my career (4min). Not much about coding this week.
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See you next time,
Cesar
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