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Rahmel Bailey shares his tips for passing technical interviews in the tech industry.Understanding core concepts and communication skills are crucial for interview success.Mock interviews and targeted practice can enhance preparation for coding tests. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rahmel Bailey, a 25-year-old software engineer at Amazon…
Sophia Tung rode in a Waymo for 6.5 hours around San Francisco.She says she would’ve ridden longer, but the Waymo’s battery was running low.A Waymo spokesperson says it was one of the “longer personal trips” by a public passenger. A software engineer managed to make a Waymo drive her around…
Audio engineer Theo Browne recently criticized Apple’s AirPods Max for their sound quality and price.Browne, a fan of the AirPods Pro, finds the mid-range sounds of the AirPods Max disappointing.Browne and another audio expert broke down why they suggest alternative over-ear headphones. You don’t have to look far to see…
Ali Mir and Hamed Nilforoshan believe job sites should be more focused on job seekers because both think they tend to optimize the experience for employers.Mir, previously an engineer at Meta, Rippling, and DoorDash, and Nilforoshan, a computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford University, created their own job board.First formed…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a software engineer in New York. She has chosen to remain anonymous due to privacy concerns. Business Insider has verified her identity and place of employment. It’s been edited for length and clarity.When I walk into a first date as a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Edwin Toh, a former UX engineer at Google in New York. It has been edited for length and clarity.My friend told me what I should expect at Google’s New York office before I started working there. You don’t get the vibes…
When Paden Gayle went into his first real round of tech interviews in 2020, he “failed horribly.””I thought I’d just have to know how to code, like, ‘Hello World,’ and I’ll get the job,” he said. “I kind of went in there blind, and then I realized, oh, I don’t…
A former Air Force civilian engineer who led maintenance at Robins Air Force Base removed a crucial inspection procedure that could have identified a worn propeller blade before it caused a KC-130 Hercules crash in 2017 that killed 16 troops, federal prosecutors allege in newly released court documents.James Michael Fisher,…
The videos prompted Troufanov’s family to call on Israeli officials to do more to secure his release.PIJ, a militant group that operates in Gaza alongside Hamas, released the first video on Tuesday.In the short clip, Troufanov speaks calmly and in Hebrew.He said: “In the next few days, you will hear…
22-year-old Sajjaad Khader knew he wanted to go into software engineering when he started college — but he has some advice for people considering studying AI at university.In three years, he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in computer science from Georgia Tech and finished both programs by 2022.In his…
