Saeed Gatson

Author: Saeed Gatson

  • How to Ace a Non-Technical Interview

    How to Ace a Non-Technical Interview

    In my experience, developers often overlook the non-technical interview. I’ve been the company culture guy during quite a few interviews. The task is simply to answer one question: “Is this person a good fit for our team?” Some have been great, and others have flopped. What do top developers do to ensure they’re hired?

  • Finding What To Learn Next

    Finding What To Learn Next

    Being able to learn things quickly is an amazing skill to have—even more so for developers because of speed of technology. Most people change careers 15 times throughout their life. Not jobs, careers! So it’s safe to assume that the average developer will have multiple jobs throughout their career. Each job change has the potential…

  • What Software Developers Can Learn From Arnold Schwarzenegger

    What Software Developers Can Learn From Arnold Schwarzenegger

    When you think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, software development probably doesn’t come to mind. Ok, I’m one hundred percent sure Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t come up during a normal discussion about software development. Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped from the bodybuilding stage to the silver screen, becoming one of the most prolific movie stars in history. He redefined the…

  • How To Avoid My Business Mistakes

    How To Avoid My Business Mistakes

    The final text was sent. I lowered my head  and let out a long sigh. Looked up at my wife and said, “It’s done…”. I had just shut down the business I had started almost 2 years ago called Samson. For those of you who don’t know, Samson was a service that allowed Barbers to manage their schedule…

  • Growth Hacking In 4 Deceptively Simple Steps

    Growth Hacking In 4 Deceptively Simple Steps

    How did companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Dropbox have rapid growth while going against tough competition? Ryan Holiday would say it’s because they use a new set of marketing strategies called growth hacking. He explains how in his book Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising. I recently finished reading Growth…

  • Avoiding A Push Process

    Have you ever thought about how much work your automated test actually help you do? I mean real honest work. Don’t worry if it’s low, because for most teams it is. There can be a lot of waste in the automation creation process. Creating unnecessary automated test cases is a huge waste for Test teams. Multiple scripts…

  • Daily Practice Chart

    I’m a big fan of James Altucher and his writing around a concept called The Daily Practice. This chart will quickly show you what it’s all about.

  • From Peer To Peer Lending To Online Ordering

    I was finally done! I had taken my last order, chopped my last potato, and washed my last red plastic tray. After my final shift at In-N-Out (yes I’ve worked at In-N-Out), I thought I would never be in the restaurant business again.

  • To Be A GREAT Programmer Learn History

    If you want to learn how to be a GREAT programmer, not just good enough to program an app application, but good enough to be GREAT, study machine language. Study 1s and 0s. Study the history of the computer, learn how to make an operating system, and Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, Lisp, C, C++, all the…