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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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Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early

SoCal CTO

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. The remaining 10%, takes the other 90% of the time.

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Why Company Culture Is Vital for Every Remote Company

YoungUpstarts

Having helped countless remote web developers find trustworthy companies to collaborate with, we noticed a curious trend: remote companies with great company culture perform better. Denis Kryukov is an author at Soshace , hiring platform for remote web developers and companies.

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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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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. I’ve also run my own development consultancy (The212) for ~10 years and have built projects for numerous companies like eBay, IBM, American Express and Ogilvy & Mather. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

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Lessons Learned from a Software Developer’s First Attempt at Launching a Startup

Software By Rob

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable.

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