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More Coders. More Diversity.

Feld Thoughts

Techtonic Academy provides underprivileged youth, minorities, women, and veterans both technical training and mentorship to become entry-level software engineers and pursue a career in the technology field. The post More Coders. Reach out to Heather if you’d like more information. More Diversity.

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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. One of your better developers leaves. The last 10% takes the other 90%.

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Election Postscript – That’s Pride Talking

Growthink Blog

As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers. And the rising powers of our age, the Brazils, the Indias, the Chinas, fight not with tanks and guns but with bits and bytes and rent-a-coder and hard work and hustle. This challenge?

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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. I’m not saying that a software engineer candidate shouldn’t code at an interview. Well, you get my point. I want to see a blog and/or a Twitter account.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Roles, such as software engineer, user experience designer and product manager, come with narrow and explicitly-assumed responsibilities. For example, software engineering write code. Conversely, input on coding decisions have also become open to non-coders.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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