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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

Bandwidth sufficient for efficient communication was unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower. In other words, the most compelling reasons for NOT relying on remote engineering talent to build software no longer apply.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Engineers are expensive and have better things to do than read resumes all day.

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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

They met high demand for affordable homes with a single, replicable solution. Most companies don’t have the cash or bandwidth to support long development cycles and hire boatloads of developers. This is the model we see at software companies that are doing exceptionally well.

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3 Reasons to Benefit from the Coming Wave of 5G

The Startup Magazine

Both cases will cause an increasing demand for highly skilled data network and software engineers. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation technology (QAM) is used for creating a single channel and doubling the bandwidth by means of changing the amplitudes of 2 (two) data streams. 3 Improved Innovation.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially. Toyota is a software company. Johnson and Johnson is a software company. Many more companies have realized they need to become software companies; otherwise, they risk becoming the Nokia or Blackberry of yesteryear.