https://www.ct-unlimited.org/Technical experimentation, discovery, and musings.enThu, 04 Sep 2025 03:49:01 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/hackerrank-diatf/The Villain<div><p>If you think HackerRank is a fair way to evaluate engineers, you are wrong. It is not about skill, it is about memorizing trivia and tolerating a broken environment. Real engineers rely on references, real tools, and real workflows. HackerRank strips all of that away and calls it a test.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/hackerrank-diatf/">Read more…</a> (2 min remaining to read)</p></div>EngineeringHackerRankHiringRanthttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/hackerrank-diatf/Tue, 02 Sep 2025 05:45:00 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/mishandling-interviews/The Villain<div><p>Welcome back! Let's continue our dive into some issues that we see trending in the hiring process at companies as changes continue to disrupt the industry. We began our journey identifying the issue of companies failing to recognize talent that exists beyond <a class="reference external" href="https://www.tipranks.com/glossary/f/faang-stocks-definition">FAANG</a> engineers. In this post, we will look at another common issue: mishandling interviews.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/mishandling-interviews/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>InterviewingLeadershipOpinionTipshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/mishandling-interviews/Sun, 03 Mar 2024 04:30:00 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/we-have-a-problem/The Villain<div><p>Looking for work after downsizing at your former employer? Feeling depression take over and losing yourself to the negative feelings and emotions of what seems to be a hopeless job market? <strong>You are not alone!!!</strong> We have a problem, and it needs to be addressed.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/we-have-a-problem/">Read more…</a> (3 min remaining to read)</p></div>InterviewingTipsToolshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/we-have-a-problem/Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:30:00 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/tech-industry-depressing/The Villain<div><p>Addressing the challenges faced by individuals in the tech industry is not a pleasant topic, yet it is increasingly vital to shed light on the prevalent issues. A growing number of individuals within the industry are grappling with heightened levels of depression, amplified by long working hours, job uncertainty, and the soaring costs of living.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/tech-industry-depressing/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>InterviewingOpinionToolshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/tech-industry-depressing/Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:26:00 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/interview-pressure/The Villain<div><p>It's not often I find myself completely disappointed in myself like I was right after this interview came to a close. I interviewed with a company and was totally excited for the possibility. They by far have the most impressive architecture I have ever seen a company accomplish, especially as a young company.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/interview-pressure/">Read more…</a> (3 min remaining to read)</p></div>InterviewingTipshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/interview-pressure/Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:00:00 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/cli-1password/The Villain<div><p>I spend a lot of time on the cli... Since you're here, I assume you do too. In this post, I am going to show you a couple of my bash functions that greatly simplify my (work) life..</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/cli-1password/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>Toolshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/cli-1password/Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:40:00 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/nikola-v8-and-solarization/The Villain<div><p>Wow! That's a different look.... Yes, yes it is! Thank you for noticing.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/nikola-v8-and-solarization/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/nikola-v8-and-solarization/Thu, 17 May 2018 07:28:22 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/get-scrappy/The Villain<div><p>Startups -- it's time to get scrappy! But what does that mean? Well, I suppose I could call it gettin' grizzly... But that still doesn't really explain what I'm talking about. Fortunately, it does start to get you thinking and imagining where I could possibly be going with this...</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/get-scrappy/">Read more…</a> (4 min remaining to read)</p></div>InterviewingOpinionSelf-HostingStartupsToolshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/get-scrappy/Thu, 10 May 2018 18:24:00 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/better-windows/The Villain<div><p>In many engineers' minds, Windows had fallen off the face of the earth (like my blog!) as a viable engineering platform. With MacOS as a solid mainstream player, and many hardcore linux engineers like myself, what was Microsoft going to do to get engineers to take them seriously again?</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/better-windows/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>LeadershipToolshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/better-windows/Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:37:00 GMThttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/wordpress-migrated/The Villain<div><p>Wow, lot's more content, right? Sorta, but not really. I finally got around to migrating the content from my old site over to this one. For the most part, everything is the same. I did make one exception, the 'Hero-Villain' post isn't a post anymore. Now, it has become part of 'About' and is titled 'Villain Lore'.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/wordpress-migrated/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>CareerToolshttps://www.ct-unlimited.org/posts/wordpress-migrated/Fri, 09 Oct 2015 07:45:00 GMT