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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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Affordable and Efficient App Development

The Startup Magazine

Evaluate your potential developers’ knowledge, experience, and the skills listed on their software engineer resume. Cost-savings with the more affordable developer and IT project manager salary. Additionally, some project communications may be misconstrued when you engage in internet-based communications.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. Advancement takes considerably longer, as does demotion.

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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. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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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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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.