Secrets of SDET Success

This has been a long week – but I still found a few things worth sharing. Here they are. I think this is a must read article on The Career, Accomplishments, and Impact of Richard I. Cook I also enjoyed this article on The Real Difficulty of Engineering Leadership In today’s news, I was fascinated…

I’m just back from a trip off the grid, so probably missed a lot – but here are a few things I think are worth knowing about. Short and sweet this week – have a great weekend.

I’m two months into my 18th year at Microsoft, and I still really enjoy it – most of the time at least. My job is great, I work on amazing technology, and with people smarter than you can imagine. But, for two months or so every year, the dreaded MS review monster comes out from…

I recently ran across this article on nytimes.com from over a year ago. Here’s the punch line (or at least one of them): “We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found…

Different week – same stuff. Long time readers probably find patterns in the things I like to read (or at least the things I like to share). Here’s what I found this week. I really enjoyed this article on How Google SRE and Developers Collaborate Like a lot of Americans, I have paid a lot…

I recently read The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. This is yet another book not about testing that testers should read. Gawande is a surgeon and relates his experiences from the field of medicine throughout the book. )ne of the first chapters goes into depth on the growing complexity and…