Hello. My name is Syd Polk. I am a software engineer, and jazz musician. I am also an amateur baseball analyst, mediocre Argentine tango dancer, numismatist, and Star Trek fan, among many other things.
I have been writing a blog for several years at https://recruitedby.tech . The focus on this blog has been on my experience interviewing for jobs in the tech industry the last 35+ years. That blog is written from an anonymous viewpoint.
However, I started this substack to write other stories, mostly about tech, but largely autobiographical in nature. This is more of a passion project; I am not planning on doing much monetizing on this platform. However, at some point, I would like to collect stories from both platforms and put together a book.
Hopefully, you will enjoy my writing here. I can’t guarantee any particular frequency. And any stories I write about interviewing at companies, I will also be posting at Recruited By Tech.
Please let me know what you like and don’t like. I will ruthlessly weed out comments that are hateful, abusive, or discriminatory, but I hope that if you decide to engage with me, we can have good, productive conversations.
Thanks in advance for reading!