Tag: developer-skills
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Remote Work in Tech: Trends & Tools
The remote work debate didn’t end. It fragmented into something more specific and more difficult: organizations that went distributed in 2020 without changing how they make decisions are now discovering that the problems they attributed to remote are actually governance problems that the office was masking. I ran a team of fifteen in a manufacturing…
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Tech Interview Prep: What European Companies Actually Test
Most candidates assume interviews measure competence. In most European companies, they measure exposure — exposure to risk, exposure to cost, exposure to unpredictability. After eighteen years in IT — twelve inside Tier-1 manufacturing IT and six in digital agencies — I stopped treating interviews as talent discovery. They are risk compression exercises. The question behind…
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How to Write a Tech CV That Gets Past the ATS in 2024
Most engineers blame ATS. That’s convenient. It shifts responsibility to a machine. The uncomfortable reality: ATS rarely rejects strong candidates. Humans do. What ATS Actually Is Large European enterprises overwhelmingly use Applicant Tracking Systems. Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Lever — these systems dominate mid-to-large organisations. Their core function is structured parsing: extract job titles, identify…
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How to Hire Senior Developers Without Wasting 3 Months
The phrase “senior talent shortage” is repeated so often it starts to sound structural. In most European hiring processes I’ve observed over the past decade, the delay is rarely caused by absence of capable engineers. It is caused by internal ambiguity about what “senior” actually means inside the organisation. That ambiguity compounds week after week.…
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IT Career Paths: Junior to Senior Without Burning Out
Becoming a senior developer is not a matter of accumulating years. I’ve worked with developers who had ten years of experience that was really two years repeated five times — the same stack, the same comfort zone, the same ceiling. And I’ve watched people hit genuine senior capability in four years because they were deliberately…
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Skills Every Web Developer Needs in 2026
The European tech job market has specific patterns, and they’re not uniform. After eighteen years in IT — twelve corporate, six across digital agencies in Hamburg — I’ve hired developers, sat on panels, and watched plenty of people miscalibrate their preparation for the wrong market — sometimes before the interview stage, because their CV wasn’t…