Gergely Orosz articles - 17 total
How to Write a Performance Review as a Developer
Watch this article as a short video on my YouTube channel. Performance reviews are coming up. I've a...
Six Principles Your Resume Should Follow - So Recruiters Will Read It
I've been a hiring manager for several years at Uber and Skyscanner. During this time, I've read hund...
What part(s) of the tech interview process would you be interested in knowing more of?
I've started writing a book to give an "inside out" view on the tech interview process. I still remem...
Ask the engineering manager: career development paths in tech companies from junior, through senior, to staff
I'm a hands-on engineering manager, with a few years' of engineering management, and a decade worth o...
The Biggest Change in the Software Development Industry the Past 10 Years
I've been a professional software developer for more than 10 years. With the decade ending, I did a r...
Readable Code
Good code needs to meet two key requirements. First, it should be correct: when executing, it should...
Don't Work Alone
One of the recurring things that come to bite me and my team is having a less experienced engineer or...
On Getting Promoted as a Developer
I've had a pretty good run with promotions lately. When I transitioned from being an engineer to mana...
Software Architecture: Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's dist...
Growing the product-minded software engineering muscle
Product-minded engineers are developers with lots of interest in the product itself. They want to und...
Hacks to Grow as a Developer: Grab Coffee with an Experienced Engineer You Don’t Know
While I do my best to keep doing networking, I have to admit that I don't think I'm that good at it....
I've worked at fast-growing startups and Silicon Valley tech companies for the past seven years. AMA.
I've been working at well-known tech companies since 2012, in London and Amsterdam: at Skype/Microsof...
Healthy teams, unhealthy teams: in your experience, what makes them so?
Team dynamics on the dev team are so important. A team that is healthy, well-balanced, everyone has a...
Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well
How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I j...
Growing as a Developer - Advice from Dan Heller
At Uber, my colleague, Dan Heller is a developer who moved to being an engineering manager, then back...
9 Tips to Ace Your Takehome Project for Frontend, Fullstack and Mobile Interviews
Takehome projects are typically one of the first steps in the frontend/mobile/full-stack recruitment...
Undervalued Skills for Developers: Writing Well
I have been coaching several developers to further grow professionally, since transitioning to being...