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Scheduling Interviews Just Got A Whole Lot Easier With CoderPad’s Google Chrome Extension

Scheduling interviews through CoderPad just got loads easier. With our Google Chrome Calendar extension, you can now create and link to pads directly in Google Calendar or directly in your browser toolbar. We added this feature to help make the CoderPad scheduling process much smoother: The extension is easy to install, you can download it for free from the Chrome Web Store here . You can find the documentation on how to set up and use the extension here .

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Everything You Need to Know about All 11 CSS Filters

CSS, the language for visually styling elements on the web, has evolved to include features that can change an element’s visual effects in a website’s source code – freeing you from the need for graphical and photo editing software. Enter CSS filters. CSS filters allow developers to alter an HTML element (usually an image) appearance before it gets displayed in the browser. It provides various operations that can be performed on an element to change its visual properties — for example, increasing the brightness of an image, enhancing an element’s color intensity, adding a blur effect, and much more.

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Building a Better Future for Data Teams with Live Technical Interviews

How should data teams work smarter in the future — and can better technical interviews help them do it? These were just some of the many thought-provoking questions I recently talked through with Boris Jabes of Census on his podcast, The Sequel Show . We covered everything from the overlap between interviewing and creating collaborative tech organizations to what a perfect KPI for data teams might look like. Whether you’re a data analyst, an engineering manager, or are just interested in the changing face of interviewing, there’s something for everyone in this conversation. Here are some of the highlights.

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3 Great Technical Questions to Ask Your Junior Front-End Engineering Candidates

Senior engineers are hard to come by –so many companies have started to focus on hiring junior developers to train up rather than pay the hefty price tag for intermediate and senior developers. However, hiring a good junior front-end developer isn’t as simple as having them solve an algorithm question on a whiteboard. We’ve previously talked about how important it is to develop interview questions that accurately assess skills and match the candidate’s experience – but what does that look like for a junior front-end developer?

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A Holistic Guide to Diversity and Inclusion in the Technical Hiring Process

Today, diversity and inclusion present a major opportunity for the tech industry. Research shows that a diverse workforce leads to higher performance and more resilient companies — and we’ve all got room to improve where representation , pay , and hiring are concerned. A 2021 survey of over 2,000 early-career tech workers and 270 business leaders by market research firm Wiley revealed that 68% of polled businesses feel there isn’t enough diversity in their tech workforce. Nearly a quarter said they didn’t know how to address the issue.

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Dev Discussions: Everything You Need to Know about Monorepos with Juri Strumpflohner of Nrwl

As the Director of Developer Experience for Nrwl (pronounced “narwhal,” like the sea creature), Juri Strumpflohner knows a thing or two about monorepos. Nrwl is the company behind Nx , perhaps the most popular monorepo management tool. Juri’s job is to ensure developers like you have the best possible experience using Nx. If you’ve never heard the term monorepo , you’ll want to pay close attention to this post. Monorepos have become increasingly popular as organizations look for more efficient ways to manage and collaborate with their code bases.

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How to Run Front-End Developer Interviews That Don’t Suck

Interviewing developers is hard. Even if you’ve been doing it for 14 years, you’re spending a lot of time and energy to ensure you find the right candidate AND show the candidate why they should want to work for you. And, of course, there’s always the risk that you spend all that effort on the wrong candidate. The one who lied about their coding skills , doesn’t work well on a team, or simply doesn’t know how to communicate.

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Dev Diaries: How We Make Pair Programming Interviews Easy with Duplicate Pads

One interview early in my career left such a mark on me that it changed the way I approach technical interviews ever since. The first step: I was given a take-home assignment to write a program that would round dollar amounts to the nearest five cents. The best part about this assignment? I got to pick which language to use out of three options. Then, I submitted the assignment, somebody reviewed it, and I got called in for a live interview. They gave me the heads up to come in familiar with the code I had submitted.

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Dev Discussions: Creating Fantastic User Interfaces with Esther Agbaje of Chakra UI

Scaling user interfaces (UI) is hard. While a simple application can be thrown together, there’s a surprisingly deep level of complexity once you grow. You need tests to validate functionality and consistency in UI elements across all app screens. And don’t forget to consider edge cases. When an application gets large enough, front-end teams will regularly reach for a UI component system to make development more streamlined.

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