If you have interviewed an candidate for software engineer/developer role chances are you have ask or been asked: “Is this candidate a good culture fit?” It is important to be aware how we may unconsciously be applying biases and discriminating against candidates under the guise of “Culture Fit”. Some seemingly innocent, but dangerously wrong explanations of “Culture Fit” I have heard from people: Would I want to to be friends with this person?

Automated Software Testing is a discipline that every person who writes code professionally should practice. I will not argue the merits of testing here, because plenty of other people make very convincing arguments. Tools: There are a variety of testing frameworks that are offered for the different languages and frameworks that are used software engineers. [JUnit] (http://junit.org/junit4/) for Jvm languages Minitest for Ruby Go Test for Go Each of these libraries/frameworks provides a functionality to create tests, run tests, and make assertions