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Episode 99: Developer Health and Whiteboard Interviews

March 09, 2018 32:42 31.39 MB Downloads: 0

Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

  1. Do you have any recommendations for maintaining physical health in a software developer role? For example, strategies to maintain good posture, reduce eye strain, etc.
  2. Is the practice of asking interviewing developers to regurgitate 20 year old algorithms on a whiteboard a recent trend or is this something new? Can you make sense of this madness?

This is a pretty good summary of some of the health effects of sitting.

Here is the tweet Jamison talked about.