Helping tech recruiters vet client requirements and job candidates for technical roles by blending 20+ years of Engineering & Recruiting experience.
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Yo. I didn't think I'd have to send this email for at least a few more days, but here we are. Social QA Bootcamp is full. Sold out. Last seat was taken at 7:06 AM CT today. That said, you better believe I'm already thinking about the relaunch 🔥 ​ If you tried to buy the course after 7:06 AM today, you were met with a waitlist signup page. I just updated it to include information about what's next. ​>>> Sign up for the next cohort​ ​ tldr; I'm adding API test automation and test data management with Playwright ​ Not this month, not even next month or the month after. We're talking April or May 2025 for the relaunch. Haven't nailed down a date yet, because honestly, I'll mostly be focused on helping students and losing weight during the next couple of months. Anything I build is going to be for fun. Just wanted to give you a heads-up, though. Sorry if you didn't make the cut this round, but there will be another chance when the 2nd cohort launches. ​ Til then, you've got my emails and whatever other content I decide to cook up. ​ Cheers, Steven |
The Better Vetter Letter
Helping tech recruiters vet client requirements and job candidates for technical roles by blending 20+ years of Engineering & Recruiting experience.
Reader, Hey again. It's Steven, the QA Engineer who thinks he can talk about recruiting (I kid, that's what Jaclyn's here for lmao). Story time. While on the job hunt -- between November and January -- I interviewed with a productivity SaaS I shall not name. You'd know who they are, probably (maybe not, some folks I talked to hadn't heard of them). Anyway. I got all the way to the end of their interview process but flunked their Leetcode challenge. I almost wrote about this interview...
Reader, In Part 1, we talked about a bad tech assessment. Let's see how it could be better, 1 skill at a time. Recall that this was the list of skills they needed to assess for the role: is screencapping our own newsletter considered "newsletter-ception"? QA Automation (Playwright & POM) These fall under the QA Automation umbrella in the 1st item. Like I said in Part 1, they did a good job of testing the candidate on Playwright best practices. But they can do better. Instead of asking the...
Reader, Steven here. So, let's talk tech assessments. I was recently on the hunt for a new job thanks to my previous employer making some questionable business decisions in 2025. One of the first interviews I got was for a "field service management SaaS" company. AKA, they serve landscaper business owners who need help managing their operations. (No names 😉) But you're here because you want to know what their tech assessment looked like. It was a 2-parter: 1. Playwright expertise (refactor a...