Why AI Video Interviews Beat Resume Screening for Technical Roles
A resume tells you what someone wrote. An interview tells you how they think. Most technical hiring still starts with the resume. A recruiter spends…
Testing & QA
⚑ Report a ProblemLatest Testing & QA news from Tech News
All topics
agents
ai
api
architecture
automation
backend
beginners
career
claude
cybersecurity
devchallenge
devops
discuss
javascript
llm
machinelearning
mcp
node
opensource
performance
productivity
programming
python
security
showdev
softwareengineering
testing
tutorial
typescript
webdev
The Portability Audit Take-Home: Grade Environment Assumptions, Not Features
A take-home that runs on the reviewer's laptop grades features; a take-home that runs anywhere grades engineering discipline. The task below asks a…
Level Up Your FAANG Interview: A 3‑Month Training Montage Inspired by Rocky
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember the first time I opened LeetCode and felt like I’d stepped into the Upside Down from Stranger Things —…
The Cold-Start Budget Packet: A Take-Home Where the Free Server Is Allowed to Vanish
A take-home that never simulates a host restart measures almost nothing about cost discipline. The packet below asks one question: after the machine…
The forward-deployed engineer bootcamp · 1. What a forward-deployed engineer is, and why the role exists now
The forward-deployed engineer bootcamp · Chapter 1 of 12 · Career · new chapter every Saturday morning By the end of this chapter: Describe the role…
60 Claude Certified Architect Exam Questions & Answers (CCAR-F)
Which exam are you preparing for? Architect Foundations (CCAR-F) Architect Professional (CCAR-P) Associate (CCAO-F) Developer (CCDV-F) All 60 origin…
CompTIA Project+: How to Turn a Small IT Project Into a Successful Delivery
Imagine a small company decides to replace its old spreadsheet-based system for tracking IT support requests with a shared ticketing tool. At first,…
Good Engineers Have Opinions
One trait I have started noticing in good engineers, regardless of seniority, is that they are opinionated. Not argumentative for the sake of it. No…
Decoding recruiter silence
Applying for jobs often means navigating a void of information. The application goes out, and then... silence. This quiet can be frustrating, leadin…
Separate the Spec from the Scratch Pad
You open the take-home on a Thursday night. The README is smooth. A demo script prints three green lines, and a note at the bottom says a model "han…
Move the Box, Keep the Contract
You send the take-home on Friday. By Sunday the candidate has not touched the bug. They are still hunting a model key that will not 402. The packet…
Why 9 Out of 10 Product Ideas Fail Before Manufacturing (and How to Avoid It)
Quick question: have you ever had an idea for a physical product and no clear idea how to get it made? If yes, you’re not alone. Software teams ship…
Put a Meter in the Take-Home
You open the submission on a Monday and the README still has a public URL in it. The health check answers. A debug header sits in the response, chee…
Negotiating Your Salary Like a Jedi: One Technique That Works
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I got a job offer after months of interviewing. The recruiter threw out a number that f…
I built an AI that finds and scores my next job
Every week my tooling sweeps around twenty job sources and pulls in a few hundred postings. A single recent LinkedIn sweep returned 112 results. Ove…
Stop scripting interview answers. Build a panel.
Most interview prep fails for the same reason: it happens in your head. You read sample answers, you nod, you feel ready — and then someone asks "te…
How Much Does Custom Software Development Cost in 2026? (An Honest Breakdown)
I run a custom software agency — ZahrionTech — and this is the question I get asked most, usually in the first five minutes of a call. So here is th…
REST API Interview Questions (With Model Answers)
These are the REST API questions that actually come up in backend and full-stack interviews — grouped by topic, each with a short model answer and a…
Scrum Master to Agile Coach: Navigating the Next Career Step
Scrum Master to Agile Coach Transitioning from a Scrum Master to an Agile Coach is a natural progression for many professionals who want to deepen t…
The Pros and Cons of Working in a Team
Working in a team can be one of the fastest ways to learn, build projects, and gain experience. But let's be honest: teamwork isn't always as produc…
Which check in your pipeline has never fired?
I went through every automated check in my publishing pipeline this week and sorted them by how many times each had ever caught something. Four of t…
What AI labs pay developers to review code right now (data from 236 open roles)
AI labs need code that is correct, readable and safe, and they need people who can tell the difference. So they pay developers by the hour to review…
Why I Finally Rebuilt My Portfolio in Angular 22 (And What Jumping from Angular 12 Taught Me)
A few weeks ago, I opened my personal website and felt that familiar pang of developer guilt. My site was frozen in time—running on Angular 12 and s…
I didn't love coding. I loved building.
I considered myself an excellent developer. Modesty aside, I imagine most people reading this do too. I cared about clean code, SOLID, architecture,…
What 99 merged pull requests taught me about contributing to big open source projects
I recently passed 99 merged pull requests across 41 organizations: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, NVIDIA, Netflix, Samsung, Uber, plus projects lik…
Prove the bug before you fix it
An architectural review of go-tool-base came back with twenty-one critical and high findings, which is rather more than I fancied working through on…
7 Benefits of AI-Assisted Programming for Teams in 2026
Originally published at nlocoding.com 71% of developers now rely on AI-assisted tools daily—up from just 18% in 2023 (GitHub, 2026). AI isn’t a side…
Hiring managers skim in six seconds, then reread
Why the first glance matters Hiring managers spend only a handful of seconds on any new application. In that fleeting moment they are looking for a…
🔥 How to become an SEO (AI) specialist in the coming 2027 #2
Hi again 👋 Four years ago I wrote my first post here: How to become an SEO specialist in the coming 2022 #1 . Today I'm back with part two, because…
Blue Prism DEV01: Where the 60 Questions Come From and How to Spend 75 Minutes
The Blue Prism Developer exam (DEV01) gives you 60 questions in 75 minutes, and 70% of its weight sits in two objectives: Object Development and Pro…