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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

I’m hoping that over the next few months, I will be able to find more time to write and document some of this learning so that it is available not only to K9 founders but also to founders elsewhere whom I do not have the time or the privilege to engage with. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary.

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How to Build an All-Star Remote Technology Team

The Startup Magazine

Remote software development teams work from the same office space in any part of the world, whereas a distributed team suggests team members working away from each other without sharing the same office. Remote teams work from the same office and include a wide range of specialists – UX designers, solid software engineers and project managers.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

The categories also correspond closely to standard US corporate compensation practices as documented in this book by Michael OMalley. Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. Briefly: Level 8 is for interns.

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How Algorithms Rule The World

www.fastcompany.com

It’s people who are able to write code, not just any code—you’re average developer’s going to make a nice salary—but if that person innovates with code that “solves a problem” the opportunities are huge. It’s incredible; people don’t realize how many software engineers Wall Street takes off the market. Theyre all. ADVERTISEMENT.

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

“You Don’t Need Rockstar Engineers” with Dan Murrel Jr and Karen White @ BigCommerce Once upon a time in computing, it was thought that in addition to junior and senior software engineers, companies needed superhumans that could do the work of many: the mythical rockstar engineer. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. at 2:47 pm $2500 is enough to live on for most people, but it doesn’t even replace half of a decent software developer’s salary. 10 Rob on 11.19.08

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

In the project, they upload multiple documents to be translated. Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. The system counts how many words are in each document. The announcement shows how many documents, how many words, and a price. The translator rejects or approves. The translator rejects or approves.