The Mad SWE

A Senior Software Engineer trying to keep some sanity…

Recent posts

Apr 12, 2023
I Am Senior... I guess... am I? I was casually chatting with a coworker on Slack, I asked her for help with some credentials that were not working for a database her team maintains, she took ages to reply……
Apr 9, 2023
A Side-note on Side-projects Man, I’ve been coding for a long time now, I can do it fluently in 3 languages and not so fluently in about 8, I love learning new things but I believe I long passed the phase of coding just for fun, like going to hackerrank or leetcode and grinding on problems in my spare time and for some reason, in every interview I get asked about my github profile and what repos are interesting there, honestly, NONE!…
Apr 6, 2023
My Boss the Asshole I used to work at a very fine and nice company, it was a huge brand in the region and, I loved it, people were great and work was fun, until it wasn’t.…
Sep 2, 2022
My Friend the Politician Back in uni, I was young(er?), with a lot of energy and passionate about always doing the right thing and helping people, full of ideals… the perfect target for politicians and parties……
Aug 22, 2022
The Un(der)?paid Undergraduate All companies are different, not every company hires undergraduate programmers, you know, engineering students who are looking to gain some experience while earning a few bucks, this, of course, wasn’t one of those companies.…
Aug 5, 2022
Hello World Hello world! I’m The Mad SWE, SWE stands for Software Engineer. This will be my space to rant about different aspects of the tech industry, specially the human factor.…