Cultures focused on performance We’ve been told that you can’t achieve great success without hard work. Some of the tech companies,...

Psychological safety is proved to strengthen Agile values and practices. Some of the practitioners even claim that psychological safety...

In April, Blind—a tech career community—surveyed 7,300+ software engineers in the US about their salary expectations [1]. The survey...

Mentoring is a gift that is given to us (mentors) by the mentees, not the other way around. Let me share you why! 1️⃣ The mentor learns...

"I have everything: a loving family, many friends, an interesting and well-paid job, but I don't feel happy." Sounds familiar? If so, do...

In a culturally biased system, you do not have to get empowered by someone to feel empowered. What you need is a value proposition that...

More than a year ago, we sat down with Eligijus from “Kodinu” to talk about programming and everything around it: career, motivation,...

What is grit? I define grit as "passionate perseverance despite failure". Research shows that grit is associated with career success,...

For a long time, I was thinking of getting a tattoo, but I always wondered: what will my employers (now clients) think of it? 😶...

People are increasingly switching their careers to the IT field, especially programming. 💻 Oftentimes, they cannot answer why they want...

If you work in a new field, be careful. Just because you feel more productive or confident in new tasks over time doesn't mean you're...

Remember: If something is not working anymore, just stop doing it and try something else! A close person of mine was fired from her job...

While more and more often annual interviews are being abandoned, let's face it, it's still very popular in many larger business...

A Gallup survey claims that 23% of employees feel more likely to be burned out than not [1]. 😯 It means, more or less, for every fourth...

Job interviews are not only about the questions we ask candidates. Equally important are the questions that we direct to our potential...