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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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How Data Analytics Influences (and Can Better Influence) Your Business

YoungUpstarts

For most, however, they appreciate the ease of a suggested playlist rather than a search for the songs or videos themselves. In a recent report, the BLS includes new management, teaching, and software engineering positions that focus on data analytics. Data analytics keeps developers on top of ever-changing markets.

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Why Software Development Estimations Are Regularly Off

Diego Basch

This view has been debunked decades ago; this analogy was frequently seen as an aspiration for the future when I did my Master in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon in the late nineties. Long journeys by foot are something people have done for millennia, and all the knowledge you need is one Google search away.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. developed the Ojibway People and Language App.

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How to Build an All-Star Remote Technology Team

The Startup Magazine

In this article, we will talk about all-star software development teams and some ways to build one. Hiring a unicorn like that may involve pushing your search outside your region like hiring Ukrainian developers. With remote teams, you can hire a vendor if you don’t want to hire engineers personally.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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These engineers quit their jobs to start LeChat

Hunter Walker

For years we’ve worked in small, distributed engineering teams and we’ve always struggled to find the right tool for communication. We primarily use chat because software engineering is very text-oriented. We wrote the search function and multiple layouts first. None worked well for us.