Adrian could feel his throat tightening on the subway ride home from work. Earlier that day, he had started visibly shaking when a coworker tried to talk to him. In the moment, he tried to apologize for all the things his coworker couldn’t have known. That he had grown up with cerebellar ataxia.
There's a reason the Great Recession is in full swing. Many people are burned out by heightened workloads, ever-shifting conditions and expectations, and increased levels of uncertainty. Johnny, a senior developer and member of the G2i collective, knows this all too well.
Michelle felt like a hamster on a wheel, constantly doing taxing tasks with no clear purpose while working for a large corporation. The software developer knew she was unhappy, but didn’t realize at the time that what she was experiencing was burnout.
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To support the technical community in Ukraine, G2i started an initiative to support Ukrainian developers in need of new work.
ReactJS library is one of the most popular solutions to build great web applications, but it’s not the only one. There are libraries similar to each other in terms of problems they are trying to solve and there are libraries trying to solve a specific problem. After reading this article you’ll get a better understanding of ReactJS and how to answer interview questions properly.
What is React portal? From the definition in the React docs, portals provide a first-class way to render children into a DOM node that exists outside the DOM hierarchy of the parent component. Before we try to understand why we need React portal, let us review how React renders a component.
What did you miss at the first-ever React Miami? Specialists in Web3 took the stage to divulge information about this growing technology.
What did you miss at the first-ever React Miami? Level up your design, branding, and marketing prowess with these talks from React Miami speakers.
Most React developers might have seen this error before. Although the error doesn't make it very clear what mistake was made, it states a clear rule: You can't use JavaScript Objects as a child in React.
Although React and React Native share the same core principles, what’s behind them couldn’t be more different. Before we get into React vs. React Native let's take a look at how and why we ended up with React in the first place.
If you're looking to hire a React Native developer, here are both the hard and soft skills you should be looking for.
In order to simplify dependency management, code reuse, and collaboration across teams, many projects have sought out to use the Monorepo structure.
Another use case of You.i Engine that is leveraging component reusability on any form factor (mobile, tablet, or TV).
Learn how we were approached to help build a streaming video app and delivered a high-quality cross-platform video player using React Native
Digging down deep to talk about the best features and advanced techniques of Focus Management with React Native.
Gatsby, Contentful, Netlify work well together and provide a great alternative to traditional CMS; we call them a triple threat.
Alem Tuzlak's story is not just about a boy from Bosnia who loved video games; it’s about a relentless drive, a pursuit of excellence in the tech world, and the audacity to carve his own path when faced with adversity.
João Barbosa and Rafael Lebre had not crossed paths until they joined G2i. Based in Brazil, they were both looking for interesting projects with international companies while maintaining a remote workstyle.
ReactJS library is one of the most popular solutions to build great web applications, but it’s not the only one. There are libraries similar to each other in terms of problems they are trying to solve and there are libraries trying to solve a specific problem. After reading this article you’ll get a better understanding of ReactJS and how to answer interview questions properly.
I’ve seen many bad interviews. Sometimes, only a few questions are bad, but usually it goes further than that. Bizarre questions, like “what’s the difference between a number and an array,” are just a symptom of deeper issues.
This blog post will help you understand front end interviews and provide a sampling of common questions, as well as correct answers.
Hiring is risky, so obviously we can’t pick a developer at random. You have to talk to them and test their knowledge to mitigate the risk of hiring someone that isn’t a good fit for the position.
A couple of months ago, I was hunting for a new job. I found myself going through lots of interviews and stressing a lot over preparing for them.
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Harry Gandhi has talked to hundreds of founders and served as an advisor to countless company leaders since 2017. He’s worked with two VC firms and is adviser in residence at the 1517 Fund. Through these roles, and his own personal experiences with burnout, Harry’s developed a unique perspective on the challenges founders and developers face in the workplace.
The first step is acknowledging that you won’t ever be able to know everything. So set your sights a little lower and focus on knowing just enough to be dangerous. That is, you should be able to hold a conversation about a new technology, and more importantly, identify when it may be appropriate to start learning more about it in earnest.
Even if they are well-compensated and are working a manageable amount of hours, a lack of recognition and appreciation can still leave a developer feeling unmotivated and exhausted.
Guillermo Rauch clearly knows how to build a successful startup, founding Vercel in 2015 and building it into a frontend developer platform that raised $150M in a funding round last year that saw its valuation double to $2.5 billion. He shares how he got there in a conversation with G2i’s Michelle Bakels and Gabe Greenberg.
Adrian could feel his throat tightening on the subway ride home from work. Earlier that day, he had started visibly shaking when a coworker tried to talk to him. In the moment, he tried to apologize for all the things his coworker couldn’t have known. That he had grown up with cerebellar ataxia.
The top athletes in the world understand that their health impacts their performance, and are willing to spend lavishly on their wellbeing to reach peak results. Why don’t we?
Looking back on her experience with burnout, Mari-Megan wishes someone had shaken her and told her to snap out of it—yet she also recognizes that, like so much in life, we have to come to meaningful realizations on our own.
Becky has always been able to use exercise to unwind and clear her mind. Yet for a long time at the height of her burnout, the software engineer couldn’t relax at all.