I have been interviewing recruiting and coaching engineers since early 2013. During that time I have developed frameworks, onboarding strategies, and interviewing workshops that help folks succeed in recruiting. In this post, I wish to share with you one process for the technical screening, commonly known as the phone interview,

Stepping into ES2015 Here is a starter guide I had put together to help people get to know at least some of the more common constructs found in ES2015 / ES6. It references some of my favorite materials I have come across and sets up a few questions for you to

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In this tutorial will make the following assumptions: 1. That we have a document set we are acting upon that is provided the Schedule symbol to be acted against. This is common in Meteor.js applications. 2. We are using ES2015+ 3. The code you are about to see is

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I Love the Term ES6 It easily rolls off the tongue and is slicker to write about. ES2015 sounds clunky and is hard to say. I always want to abbreviate it in conversations. I would say "ES15" or "Modern JS" or "ESNext", which of

Good Developers are a Rare, and Expensive Commodity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Developers time is best spent doing the work that really makes a difference for your team and your product. While there are many topics to cover for how Developers may manage their time, there are things we can do to

Why Code Reviews Are Important Getting on the soap box #tldr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever written some code, or an entire application, that you came back to a month later and thought > What the heck was I doing? Maybe you hope for the opportunity to refactor, rebuild or otherwise

It was Time for Redesign Previous State of Affairs During the last four weeks I have been on a mad rampage to rebuild and redesign my website. I have been neglecting jjmasse.com [https://www.jjmasse.com/] for well over three years. My tutorials are old and unpolished by todays