article thumbnail

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. I think many software developers share that sentiment. The post More Coders. More Diversity.

Coder 70
article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. This means that early software architecture can sometimes not work as well as the startup moves forward. One of your better developers leaves. The last 10% takes the other 90%.

article thumbnail

What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The So Cal engineering gap? I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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?

Coder 69
article thumbnail

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.

Lean 165