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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. Quick Background I was born in Nigeria, but mostly grew up in Dallas, TX. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

at 2:29 pm 2500 covers rent,day care for 1, and 2 car notes in dallas. 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. As a former software engineer I hate to admit that sometimes the easiest thing to do is build the software.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

They recognize the average lifespan of a client is 3-6 months, so they implement a strong sales team to consistently search for new clients. Shaw, Dallas Web Design Inc ! #15- Agencies often work in a sort of ‘churn and burn’ fashion in the digital marketing space, which is totally fine. Thanks to Brad M.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. Joe enthusiastically led Perot Jain’s support for Capital Factory’s Dallas $100,000 Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge. We provide space and we promote them to our community.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. LOL, I just realized the search on your site is powered by Bing… I believe this is what we call irony. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. As somebody who is about 50/50.NET

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