Reasons why onboarding junior engineers may be unsustainable for young companies — People I talk to tend to be surprised (and often personally offended) when I tell them that my company doesn’t interview junior engineers. It’s an understandable reaction; a blanket policy of not hiring juniors implies certain negative things. It can imply arrogance: I think I’m so smart and talented that…

How to avoid the plateau and continue to grow — Congrats! You’ve settled in at your first job. You’ve made it past the initial wave of impostor syndrome and have some idea of what you’re doing and what you’re good at. You might’ve even received a promotion or two. You’re no longer wildly floundering every day and are able to…

You can be a great engineer without a CS degree — I dropped out of grad school in December 2015 after two and a half grueling years. I left with practically nothing — no first-author publications, no degree, not even a single completed research project under my name. I hated my life so much that to me, losing a quarter of…