We're finding our stride in Episode 2, even though one of us is slightly under the weather. This week's discussion focuses on a recent trending article about modern challenges with hiring and technical interviews: we talk about technical tests, coding interviews, and how many rounds is too many. Plus there's loads of comments from our glorious listeners, we couldn't do this without all of you.

If you're here for the off-the-cuff asides, we've got plenty of those: we mull over the idea of recording an episode from within a videogame, and Neil makes plans to hack his new Peloton bike for the benefit of the podcast. Also, by complete accident, we're completely swear-free this week!

We're sponsored this week by CookMyGrub.com who have kindly offered to give away a £20 Amazon voucher to one lucky winner - tune in to the episode to find out how to enter!

High-fives to our new Patreon supporters this week: Dan Billing and Gilles!

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start

01:45 The Stand-Up

07:15 Social Engineering

16:24 This Week's Epic

42:08 News Bytes

50:47 Competition Time

52:59 The Wash-Up

STORIES FEATURED THIS WEEK:

Better Programming: If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a software engineering job?

Quora post: If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a software engineering job?

Docker: Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions

BBC: Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k

BBC: Banksy was warned about website flaw before NFT hack scam

Better Programming: Bored of VS Code? Try Lite-XL

CSS-Tricks: Introduction to the Solid JavaScript Library