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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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Why Company Culture Is Vital for Every Remote Company

YoungUpstarts

The struggle of establishing a company’s identity (and, by extension, its culture) is even more real for remote companies: without the luxury of face-to-face communication, remote workers may grow disconnected and dissatisfied – and their sudden change of heart will forever remain a mystery to the company’s managers.

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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I also teach Front-End Web Development at General Assembly.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. Vancouver has long been considered the tech center of Canada’s western provinces. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable.

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Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design

crowdSPRING Blog

Modern content management systems (like WordPress) make it easy to manage such content. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. Although some freelancers can do both, the skills for design and development are typically different and you may want to leverage different people for each part of the job.

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7 Steps to Optimize Your Blog Posts Like a Pro

Duct Tape Marketing

I’m a content manager; my background is in public relations with a little bit of marketing strategy and graphic design. I’m not a web design guru; I’m no software engineer or web developer. Kala Linck is the Community and Content Manager at Duct Tape Marketing.

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