YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Today, Oracle has 40,000 workers in the United States and 66,000 abroad.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). 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. Briefly: Level 8 is for interns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

And what I think you heard in that, like "I accidentally created a software development competition," is actually not quite right. The world stops being on fire, we go back to growing and we're across the United States changing lives and helping people get to that moment where they're not counting the change either.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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