All about management and leadership
As a manager, you’re bound to mentor engineers that are direct or indirect report to you. As most of us reached our position through our hard earn experience, it’s only natural that people would love to seek wisdom from those that can guide them through […]
A bit of background. Recently this has been a hot topic among the engineering leads as we talk about recruitment. Some think like this: How all this got started was the trend to make salary transparent. The goal is to help people get their fair […]
I believe this will be a controversial topic to most engineering managers or stakeholders. Nevertheless, having to experience different forms of refactoring in code and process, I like to share some of my thought here. Remove unwanted/redundant code and feature Let’s admit. Most of us […]
According to Wikipedia for the great resignation, the time scale of this event happens around early 2021. Writing this post today, make me a little late into it. But I would like to share my general thought about hiring as an Engineering Manager in Malaysia […]
At the beginning of the year, we heard a lot about “The Great Resignation” trend in the United States. From my end, business was as usual. That is, after about 6 months of lag. I soon realized that our hiring pipeline was getting hard to […]
The last couple of months has been exciting month that involves winning a couple of hackathon through personal initiative after work hours. In my current company, we have this culture of sharing. And I took the opportunity to share my experience of the virtual hack […]
In recent years, Hackathon/hack week/hack day has been the driving force behind the innovation of the large company. It also serves multi-purpose. 1) Medium for recruitment to find passionate engineers. 2) Timeout and a change of pace from the usual backlogs. 3) Builds culture and […]
For context Recently, there is a vulnerability that is found in an on-prem server that is being exploited like a wildfire. If you have not heard about it, feel free to read more about it here. It is also known as CVE-2021-26084 RCE on Confluence […]
Nowadays, a good software development company that works in a team typically will establish some sort of process for code review. One of the most commonly used examples is creating a Pull-Request (PR). Commonly used in Github and open-source projects. Therefore, it is good to […]
If you don’t know what this exercise is, search for it. You’ll get the idea, is pretty straightforward. That is to plan ahead and connect with what means to you or your company, and what impact it has made over the life span. Back from […]
