Dream job video, software quality and annoying engineers

A great video from Google with a nice twist, four categories of software quality and way to annoy engineers (not just senior engineers as the title says).

Video: Dream Job

Being a dad, I thought this ad by Google was really clever and quite moving.

Software Quality

I like the way software quality has been broken down into four categories: process quality (like code reviews, test coverage, …), code quality (maintainability, testability, …), system quality (performance, security, …) and product quality (user experience, …).

8 great ways to annoy your senior engineer

I have experienced most of these at some point in my career. Hopefully I haven’t done too many of them to my teams.

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