Here’s what I look for with software engineers II hire.

Pragmatism: pick the right solution for the right problem. And your work should create minimal work for others.

Thirst to learn: there is always something new and exciting and there’s always a better way to do it. Look for that. It also means being open to feedback.

Collaboration instead of execution: I need my team to challenge me. For that, they need to get as much of the bigger picture as they can. That means always being able to answer “why” you do things. It also means that I expect healthy conflict with my teams. If you go from being taught to teaching me, you immediately get a bump in my list of top teammates.

No excuse: we acknowledge problems and deal with them together. (Requires a good work environment though).

As you can see, nothing I wrote is purely code related. Only thing I ask tech wise is: know your shit, where to find it, who to ask.

Also, my top resource to get people started with what it means to become a software engineer is solidbook.io.

I’m on Pcloud, server with rsync+rclone to move files from file system to cloud and use it as a unified file system.

The lifetime storage offer from pcloud has been worth it for me and I even upgraded it from 2 to 12 TB

Sorry but you are using the wrong cloud storage provider.

I’ve switched to pCloud on black Friday. It was a one time payment for 2TB lifetime (10TB is also available) cloud storage. I checked and it was ~250€ at the time.

Considering the amount of HDD I’ve burned through in the early years I’ve already saved a couple thousand dollars and I haven’t lost any file since.

Just make sure to watch their price as they currently have a sale and I don’t believe for 1 second that the initial price was in fact 1140€ for 2TB as advertised.

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