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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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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Information systems analyst and consultants start at a median salary of $74,048. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

The most popular options are: Hostgator ; InMotion Web Hosting; GoDaddy. Building a software product, the massive part of your budget is the developers’ salary. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product. In average, the hourly rate for software engineering services reaches $47 per hour.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Once you start censoring the Web, you restrict the ability to imagine and innovate.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

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. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

What is the average salary of an entrepreneur? IT/Software Engineering/UX or UI Design. What is the average annual salary of an entrepreneur? According to a study from American Express OPEN , the average entrepreneur pays himself or herself an annual salary of $68,000. What is the job outlook for an entrepreneur?

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.