NDC London 2017

This year I was lucky enough to attend NDC London for the first time. I was sponsored by my employers and they opted to send me for the 2 days of pre conference workshops too. I had 2 colleagues along with me, Jamie was here for the full week (the same Jamie who won NDC tickets at DDD North), while Paul would be arriving on Tuesday evening for the conference proper.

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Interview Coding Screen

Recently the company I work for started another round of recruitment for a mid-level software engineer. One of the things that surprised me from the last round of recruitment (my first) is how many professional software engineers out there simply can’t code. By this I don’t mean that they have good experience with another language but not so much with our weapon of choice (C#); I mean that they just can’t write a simple algorithm.

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