Helpful reads for software engineering leaders.

Focus on these six areas to evaluate software engineers and hire the best, most qualified person for your team.

April 15, 2022

HackerNews Hot Takes With Wes Part 2: Senior Engineers Don't Want to Take Code Quizzes

Senior engineers don't want to take code quizzes. Should they have to? Let's hear Wes' response to a HackerNews post where a candidate is feeling burnt out from the interview process.

April 14, 2022

HackerNews Hot Takes With Wes Part 1: Are Recruiters Lying About Remote?

Are Big Tech recruiters lying to candidates to fill open roles? Wes weighs in on this week's contentious HackerNews topic.

March 25, 2022

New Feature Drop: Mark Candidate As Hired

Woven's new feature – Mark as Hired – allows you to track the status of candidates during technical interviews. It even updates Slack when you change the status to "Hired".

Tech Interview Platform Woven Launches "Woven Match" and Lands $8m Investment to Make Hiring Developers Radically Better

Today, Woven, a tech interview platform for hiring engineers at software companies, announced that it’s launching “Woven Match”.

Managing Mental Health, With Micah Weaver

By Kevin Huynh

According to the Stack Overflow 2018 Developer Survey, nearly one in five developers say that they struggle with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or both.

Leveling The Playing Field For Software Engineers

By Kevin Huynh

As a company that provides technical assessments, he says to try not to judge software engineers by their resumes. When hiring tech talent, degrees are less important than previous work experience and personal projects.

Joe Montana Scored 168% More Than His Entire Career Football Earnings On This One Deal

After hanging up his cleats, Montana found his way into venture capital and has spent the past six years investing in startups. Her's how he helped deliver a $42m touchdown.

Hooks added to Woven React Scenario

Hooks showed up with React 16.8. They’ve since become the modern standard to use state and other React features without writing a class

Fake Paul Graham's 8 Habits of Highly Innovative Startups

Paul Graham is a computer scientist, venture capitalist, and essayist who has launched over 500 startups. I asked a GPT-3 AI tool what Paul Graham would say the key is to startups, and the response was...surprising.

12 Places to Find Remote Software Engineers