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The Broken Technical Interview Process: When Theory Overshadows Practical Skills

The technical interview process in the software industry is broken. As someone who has been on both sides of the interview table, I’ve noticed a concerning trend: companies are testing candidates on complex algorithmic problems that rarely appear in day-to-day work. The Current State Picture this: You’re a seasoned developer with years of experience building scalable applications, writing clean code, and solving real business problems. You apply for a position, and what do you face in the coding challenge? Questions about implementing a Red-Black tree, solving complex dynamic programming problems, or optimizing an algorithm to find the nth Fibonacci number. ...

January 9, 2024 · 3 min · 558 words · Ashish Santikari

Member of 1MB Club

Just a little post to brag about 😉 1MB Club is a growing group of people who are running websites less than 1mb in (unzipped)size. Read more about them by clicking on the name. Submit your entries here if you want to join the club. It’s super easy with git send-mail.

May 16, 2023 · 1 min · 51 words · Ashish Santikari

CKAD Exam Experience

Yayy!! 🎉🎉🎉 I am finally a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer(CKAD). Hello Kubernetes, my friend My first encounter with Kubernetes was at finleap connect. I was building the frontend for Categorisation platform. The platform used supervised machine learning to categorize transactional data. The Backend and the BFF built on Python, and the Frontend written with React/Redux stack. The platform gets deployed to finleap cloud using kubernetes, something I didn’t knew at the time. I wrote my first lines of python using flask as well to create the BFF. ...

May 8, 2023 · 3 min · 580 words · Ashish Santikari