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Front End Engineering Spectrum Poll Results
The results of my poll are in. Thanks to everyone who filled it out and shared it. It’s much appreciated and it gave me some insight into where we are in terms of roles, organizations size and maturity and, probably most interestingly to me, what we’re called on out business cards. Let’s look at the…
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On Interviewing Front End Engineers: Be Prepared (or at Least Pretend You Are.)
On more than one occasion I’ve been interviewed by someone and they’ve told me, point blank, that they “didn’t prepare at all for this” or “didn’t even look at your resume.” Really? While this is lame no matter what industry or role, with front end engineers it’s incredibly frustrating. Throughout the “Ajax era” any other…
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Interviewing Front End Engineers: The Technology Breakdown
Two caveats before I dive into this one. For starters, the following is what I’m generally interested in when doing an interview. It doesn’t represent in any official way what my current employer and my boss might be looking for in a candidate. It’s not my group, so this is only part of the picture.…
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The Front End Engineering Spectrum: The Roles
Following up on my previous post about the generic types of front end engineers, this post will deal with the common roles that I see people trying to fill. Unlike the previous list which was written solely from the perspective of a front end engineer, looking at the actual skill sets of the people whose…
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The Front End Engineering Spectrum- The Three Generic Types of Front End Engineers
As both a hiring manager and as a potential employee, I’ve seen both sides of the interview/hiring process and have noticed some definite categories when it comes to the type of people filling the roles and the roles themselves. This post deals with the types of people. I’ll follow up with a post outlining the…