Play Isabelle? Use design code MO-FFJ6-048M-Q130 for a Sentry hoodie in Animal Crossing New Horizons. #swag #animalcrossing

📣 Let me know, if you’re hiring for leadership/eng management roles. 💪 I want to build happy, productive & resilient engineering teams and bring my strong technical background, community building & people management experience. 🇬🇧 London-based. RT welcome 🙂

We're excited to introduce our first featured speaker at GraphQL Summit!! Jason Lengstorf will show you that the way that we build our applications has a significant impact on team culture. Learn how your architecture can improve or damage your team's health. summit.graphql.com

I am 20 km from Konotop, a city surrounded or already captured by the Russians. Russian tanks were on the road 2 km from my house, and Russian armored vehicles were passing by my windows. Most likely, I will find myself in the occupied zone, where the law does not apply.

Just in the last 24hs, I’ve been sent invites for 1) an “overcoming impostor syndrome” event for one network of women in tech 2) a “soft skills for women” event Stop. Stop wasting women’s time. These are not the blockers in women’s careers, and they never were.

📣 Personal announcement 📣 I did something I have wanted to do for ages!! ☺️🙌 I created a personal page where I will be writing about Engineering Leadership and Tech Organisations. Check it out: ▶️ giselarossi.co.uk

Global warming should be a worry for all of us: many can feel the impact in the every day - like the historic heatwaves hitting Europe now. It’s not enough to curb CO2 output: we also need to remove at scale. Joining Stripe Climate was a no-brainier once I learnt about it.

My favourite question when I catch myself #overthinking: w h a t i f e v e r y t h i n g w o r k s o u t?

With The Pragmatic Engineer Talent Collective, my goal is to be the best place to hire world-class software engineers and engineering leaders. I hand-pick both candidates and companies both of which are standout. It's a high signal, low noise place: pragmatic-engineer.pallet.com/talent

And of course I’m not here to tell anyone how to value money. But don’t forget the other stuff important to you, and how they stacks up against making more money. The below from the end of the article blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engin…

For the first story, we have the honour of reading Clara telling us about her role in working with data. And coming from a Philosophy background, she also shares, "What can Plato teach you about data science?" Let's start weaving 🧶 giselarossi.co.uk/2022/08/02/tap…

A software engineer whose company was doing poorly signed up for my Talent Collective a few weeks ago got two offers, and is taking one with a well-known FinTech, to work on a very exciting project. More on the Talent Collective and a quote: pragmatic-engineer.pallet.com/talent/

This week, with my hiring manager hat on, I saw a CV that was 20 pages long. Advise: Don't do that! 🙏 No one has time for that. One or two pages will do. #jobsearch #hiring

Pollen went bankrupt and entered administration yesterday. Almost everyone working there is losing their job. Here is the list of (mostly) tech folks formerly at Pollen who are open to reachouts: assorted-shovel-e15.notion.site/Pollen-Availab… Pollen hired good folks. Feel free to share this list.

Internal politics for software engineers: the "bad" type of politics. If an individual contributor is described as “political”, it almost certainly has a heavily negative meaning. A few perceptions which often contribute to this:

So happy to have joined American Express UK today! Had a great day of onboarding, loads of stuff to learn! Can’t wait to see what this journey looks like 😁😁😁

Wow! This is nice!

To every person in tech that might witness a crime one day: Protecting people that committed criminal actions against others is not ok. It’s also not the same as neutrality. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

In my Talent Collective, I like to include profiles which many hiring managers would pass on - BUT I think they could be hidden gems. I add a comment why. Here's what I wrote for an engineer who's been with his company for a bit over 10 years. I think they could be a hidden gem:

If you're a programmer, I think this is a great watch. It's easy to fall into the trap of learning hard things and never once asking yourself why they're not simpler. youtu.be/8Ab3ArE8W3s