140,000 People Have Been Laid Off, What’s Next

Authored by: Joe Basirico

Published on February 22, 2023
Reading time: 30 minutes

A hiring manager and a recruiter’s guide to getting hired.

This post is a collaboration between me, Joe Basirico, and one of the best tech recruiters in the industry, Ellen McGarrity. You can learn more about Joe on this website. Throughout you can read Ellen’s take, in her own words in blue text

Ellen has spent her 18-year career focused on recruiting in the software tech industry at both large (Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce) and small (Tableau, Highspot) companies. She has recruited candidates at all levels, domestically and internationally. Originally based out of Seattle, she now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and 2 daughters.

A Traveler's Method of Learning Technology

Authored by: Joe Basirico

Published on May 1, 2020
Reading time: 6 minutes

My favorite thing about my career in security consulting has been the constant opportunity to learn new topics. Security weaves itself through every aspect of software, and software is everywhere. The phone in your pocket, the bluetooth chip in your headphones, your automobile, and the SCADA systems you rely upon every day execute millions of lines of code on your behalf. The idea that each of those systems gives me the opportunity to gain new knowledge is truly exciting. It can also be daunting when there is always so much to learn.

Getting to Yes

Authored by: Jason Taylor Joe Basirico

Published on August 20, 2019
Reading time: 13 minutes

In this post I want to try something new. Rather than writing an article, I’ll capture a dialog between Joe and I as we discuss a topic that interests us both.

On Joe’s recommendation, I recently read Getting to Yes , written by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton for the Harvard Negotiation Project. The book is nearly thirty years old, but it has been continuously updated and it still contains lessons worth learning. As I read the book I found that I was already using some of the techniques, but there were many more that either I hadn’t been exposed to or that I was employing only partially, and as a result I was being less effective than I could be. Even more importantly, the book taught me an overall framework for thinking about negotiation that I can now use to improve both my personal and professional life.