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Building Better Interview Processes: Lessons From the Candidate’s Side
Lessons from over twenty interviews across startups, scale-ups, and big tech — and what they reveal about how companies value people.
 • Andre Nobre
Foundations #2: The Birth of REST
How Roy Fielding’s 2000 dissertation reshaped the web by embracing its constraints.
 • Andre Nobre
The Disappearing Skill: Why Intuition Still Matters in an AI World
How the rise of AI is threatening the experience we need to build intuition, and what we can do about it.
 • Andre Nobre
Foundations #1: The Proposal for Relational Databases
I’m launching a series of posts called “Foundations,” which will present the roots of well-known technologies, patterns, or solutions that quietly…
 • Andre Nobre
Winning Hearts and Minds: Persuasion Strategy for Engineering Leaders
In the end, it's not about selling an idea; it's about inspiring a movement.
 • Andre Nobre
Riding the Wave First: The Ups, Downs, and Loop-de-Loops of Being a Software Development Trailblazer
First-Mover in Software Engineering: Navigating the Balance Between Innovation and Prudence
 • Andre Nobre
The Double-Edged Sword of Positional Power in Tech Organizations
Positional power, the inherent authority that comes with a specific title or position, can be a game-changer in technology organizations, especially in…
 • Andre Nobre
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