Bill Johnson2023 Personal OKRs2 years ago I started to set yearly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for myself to both get more comfortable using the OKR framework as…Jan 22, 2023Jan 22, 2023
Bill JohnsonDouble-Blind Coding InterviewsIf you have done a coding interview at any point in the last 20+ years, you have likely been provided a problem to solve by the…Apr 10, 2022Apr 10, 2022
Bill Johnson2022 Personal OKRsin 2021 I attempted to set (and meet) a collection of personal Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). This was an exercise in both getting more…Jan 3, 2022Jan 3, 2022
Bill JohnsonLearning By Interviewing On-Call EngineersRecently in our organization we’ve been doing interviews with our on-call engineers across the teams. The goal of these interviews is to…Oct 21, 20211Oct 21, 20211
Bill JohnsonMy Running Mantra: PBRWhen I’m not doing computer-y type stuff, I’m typically out running (preferably on Cascade Range trails). As I’ve run longer and longer…Jun 17, 2021Jun 17, 2021
Bill JohnsonSRE Cultural ValuesRecently in our Site Reliability Engineering organization in Azure, we established a set of cultural values that we hold ourselves and each…May 28, 2021May 28, 2021
Bill JohnsonEarth Day 2021Thursday April 22, 2021 is Earth Day and as I think back on the last year, one big theme for me has been the value of individual…Apr 19, 2021Apr 19, 2021
Bill Johnson#LetsGreenTheWeb Together!Every website you use runs on a machine somewhere that pulls power (and likely cooling) to do its job and render the page on your screen…Feb 19, 20211Feb 19, 20211
Bill JohnsonSustainability in Software EngineeringWe are quickly approaching an inflection point that introduces a third dimension to the software engineering field: Sustainable EngineeringMay 29, 2020May 29, 2020
Bill JohnsonFirst Seven JobsEarlier this week I tweeted out my first seven jobs (like, basically, everyone else). Before tweeting, it took me a few minutes to…Aug 13, 2016Aug 13, 2016
