Career

Posts about job hunting, workplace dynamics, professional development, hiring, management, and navigating a career in tech.

2025-11-21Looking for Work
2024-12-08Two Roads, and a Third
2024-10-11How to Be Interviewed
2024-07-01Python Software Foundation Board Nomination
2024-06-02Why Are You Still Working?
2024-04-29A New Job at Plotly
2024-04-05Moving On
2024-01-14Angry for Myself
2024-01-06My Academic Flyby Revisited
2023-10-30Career Planning
2023-10-15Directions
2023-01-20What Would Entice Them?
2022-08-10Hard Problems
2021-09-27Current Project List
2021-09-13IQ and Personality Tests
2021-04-19First Day with Metabase
2021-02-20Asteroids and Dinosaurs
2021-02-12Last Day at RStudio
2020-03-30SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
2019-12-13Synchronous Online Active Classes
2019-12-13Rates
2019-11-25How I Teach Today
2019-10-17So You've Been Fired
2019-10-17Timeline of a Conversation That Never Happened
2019-09-27Managing a Queue of Learners
2019-07-27Doing Good and Getting Paid
2019-06-13Martha's Rules
2019-05-13Buzzfeed on DataCamp
2019-04-22DataCamp Clarifications
2019-04-15An Exchange with DataCamp
2019-04-14The People You Have
2019-04-05The Worst Behavior
2019-03-27You Should Talk to HR
2019-03-24Occupations
2018-11-24Afraid of Change
2018-09-04Joining RStudio
2017-02-18Resignation from Shopify
2016-12-14Next Steps
2015-06-29What is a Research Software Engineer?
2015-06-09People You Don't Want On Your Team
2012-06-29That Seems Simple to Me
2011-05-29My New Job
2011-05-26How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
2011-05-16Greg's New Gig
2011-03-20The Kind of Job I Want
2010-06-18People You Don't Want On Your Team
2009-10-17Take Pity On Your Poor Boss
2009-10-09Licensure
2009-09-22Grant Proposal
2009-06-15Crunch Mode and Burnout
2009-04-28NSERC Should Just Give the Money Away
2009-04-17Zero for Six
2009-04-15Getting Ready to Wag the Dog
2009-03-31Reassurance Cuddles for CEOs
2009-03-22What I'd Like To Do Next
2009-01-03Graduating in a Recession
2008-08-07Managing Meetings
2008-03-17The Struggles of New Graduates
2008-01-28First Figure Out What You Want to Change
2006-04-19Making Money from Better Software
2004-09-07Better is Harder than New