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Kotlin was the big topic of the year in the Android community. Many of us are talking about it or have started using it. In this blog post I will share a few tips and tricks we’ve learned while converting our application to Kotlin.

Deliveroo is growing fast. We want engineers to come work with us. In this post we’ll go through our interview process and tips to prepare.

Rebase is one of git’s most powerful features. Most-commonly used to rewrite history by squashing related commits, and for keeping your branch up to date with master (without introducing unrelated merge commits), it can also facilitate some pretty clever workflow tricks which when used judiciously can let you factor out parts of your work into separate pull requests.

You work in a medium or a large team and you find yourself tapping your fingers waiting for someone to review your PR. Days pass and nobody volunteers. Your code gets stale, version control conflicts emerge. What to do? Convince your team to start playing Pull Request Roulette. It’s fun and it works!

Passwords are a pivotal tool in customer account security, however they are frequently at risk from “reuse” - people choose one or two passwords and then use them everywhere, which brings a host of security problems…

The Deliveroos rose from the ashes of the experimental fire. Their war to grow the product had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight…

Our applications generate a lot of interesting data, but it’s not always simple to find the right way to collect it. We wanted to make it easier, so we went to the drawing board, and here’s what we’ve come up with.

A story of how leaving your laptop unlocked can lose the entire morning.

Friends, engineers, fellow food enthusiasts…lend me your ears. Before my interview with Deliveroo in November, I read some articles from the engineering blog and I promised myself that when I did start working for this amazing company, I would participate and write an article about all things QA…. I also had a little bet with Troy Harris. He fulfilled his end of the bargain so I’m fulfilling mine. In this blog, I’m going to talk about my Deliveroo Interview experience, the current QA process, taking responsibility, my typical working day and Brown Bag sessions.