TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Commit , a Vancouver, Canada-based startup that has a unique approach to matching up engineers looking for a new job to early-stage startups that want to hire them, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round. They raised money, but their biggest challenge was getting an engineer to join them,” Gunn explained.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Metafy , a marketplace for video game coaching, laid off 23% of its staff last week, primarily impacting product, design and engineering teams, founder Joshua Fabian confirmed in an e-mail to TechCrunch. June was our best month ever across GMV, AOV, game distribution and total active coaches. You’re in good hands.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Byteboard founders Sargun Kaur and Nikke Hardson-Hurley were working at Google when they recognized a fundamental problem with the way engineers were being hired. They thought engineers should be judged by their ability to code and do the job on a daily basis, so they started a company to create a different kind of engineering job interview.

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CIO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

He points to one of his staffers, a senior engineer who for many months would not use gen AI for coding because the technology wasnt accurate enough for his needs and its tendency to hallucinate was higher than he could tolerate. Downing has seen the importance of taking that approach over the past year.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

the second release of the agentic AI platform, which comes just two months after the first version was released, gets new features and capabilities, such as the option to switch to an updated reasoning engine, new agent skills, and the ability to build agents using natural language. Christened Agentforce 2.0, Agentforce 2.0

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

Even if you feel you don’t have time, Shadi Rostami, senior executive vice president of engineering at Amplitude, recommends making the effort to find some, even if that means pushing your initiative back a little. “If This was presented by Max Landsberg in the Tao of Coaching. Why are we doing this? It wasn’t broken! Why fix it?’”

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

To drive democratization, we follow ECTERS, which is educate, coach, train the trainer, empower, reinforce, and support, which helps nurture and embed internal AI talent. For empowerment, weve introduced prompt engineering guides and access to an AI knowledge hub, and we reinforce training through AI forums about high-value use cases.

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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

The agile coaches are concerned with making the organization agile on a process level. And in some transformations, the team also has an agile technical coach who teaches the team new practices and techniques from Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and SRE. Start coaching your architects.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. No rights for them.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

And to ensure a strong bench of leaders, Neudesic makes a conscious effort to identify high performers and give them hands-on leadership training through coaching and by exposing them to cross-functional teams and projects. The new team needs data engineers and scientists, and will look outside the company to hire them.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 1, 2022

It has been seven years since Rent the Runway posted their engineering ladder , kicking off a veritable trend of engineering teams open sourcing their ladders. Senior engineers should be able to work across larger areas of the organization. At first glance, “area of scope” does seem to make sense. This doesn’t seem fair.

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Dzone - DevOps

JUNE 16, 2022

In fact, when we asked our community what issue they would want professional coaching on, it was this: How to improve the impression of your work. Unfortunately, until the person you report to achieves omnipotence, you’re going to have to make sure their perception of your work lines up with the quality.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Software developers and engineers have rarely been in higher demand. But what happens after a developer or engineer lands that sweet gig? To put it bluntly, many developers and engineers stink at managing their own careers. To put it bluntly, many developers and engineers stink at managing their own careers.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 15, 2021

There is very little formal guidance for new engineering managers. When I first moved from an individual contributor (IC) to an engineering manager (EM), I found myself struggling to find training resources. I want to change that - and I hope this article will serve as a small start in that direction.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

More importantly, it’s contributing to the scarcity of engineering talent and, in turn, the rising people-related costs of building companies. When you think you need another engineer, pause and consider whether what you really need is a manager to get more out of your existing engineers. You also need coaching — early!

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 4, 2020

From a wide range of engineering degrees that the numerous colleges in India offer, computer science (CS) engineering is the most common branch of engineering, whereas Software engineering (SE) is sometimes considered a sub-branch to it. How to become a Software Engineer in India? Love for programming.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The All-22 tape is perhaps one of the most valued tools for professional football coaches because it allows the viewer to see all 22 players on the field at the same time. It improves a coach’s line of sight and, most importantly, helps avoid missing a critical motion or player. The upshot: It removes the blind spot.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

By centering the customers in every process, we identify key customer problems and re-engineer existing processes using technology to better them. Nikhil comments, A McKinsey study stated that companies that use data to make decisions are 6 times more likely to keep existing customers, and 19 times more likely to be profitable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The startup’s focus has shifted quite a bit since its initial YC debut, when it announced a service called Visor that would analyze video of esports gameplay and coach users on how they could improve their performance. Other backers include Accel, which led the startup’s Series A in 2018, Afore Capital and NextGen Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

HealthifyMe’s products include HealthifySmart, which uses AI-based tech to customize diet plans for users, and HealtifyCoach, which includes live conversations with coaches. It has about 1,500 trainers and coaches on the platform, with plans to add 1,000 more to support its expansion. Today in the U.S.,

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 12, 2022

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits for organisations to have leadership roles that are focussed on technical enablement and support. By Nicky Wrightson.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Founded in 2015, the Boston-based startup started making waves a few years back as a spinout of MIT mechanical engineering students. Invest more in training and development to support team members to become Head Coaches. The startup notes, “our Spyce restaurants will stay open at this time.” Terms were not disclosed.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Become a motivator Most business leaders expect IT to be the engine that propels enterprise success. Only aiming to meet defined business needs is selling IT short,” says Aviv Ben-Yosef, an independent tech industry executive consultant and coach.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Some work best for engineers and architects, and others for coaches, trainers, or those in more senior roles. SAFe Agilist The SAFe Agilist certification works best for a program or project manager , Scrum master , team lead, release train engineer, change agent, or others who are part of a Lean transformation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The modules were customed designed by “leaders in business and team agility,” according to ScrumAlliance, and they employ approved educators who can demonstrate years of “real-world experience and success” coaching others and implementing agile in the workplace. To earn your CompTIA A+ certification you’ll have to pass two separate exams.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Ken Norton, former director of product at Figma who recently left to solo advise and coach product managers, says companies can start by defining what PMs are not: The CEO of the product. The best candidates, then, have some sort of technical experience as an engineer or otherwise. Define the role and set your expectations.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

Developers receive peer coaching during development to create better architecture. Historically, the role of passing down the wisdom that comes from developer experience has been delegated to the system architects, lead developers and engineering managers. Developers and Engineering Managers are not able to teach every topic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Edge Pathways is a for-credit, first-year program built in collaboration with universities to help aspiring engineers navigate entrance into the confusing, and often intimidating, field of science, technology and education. million job openings out there for engineers, Sommer tells TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Mitchell describes it as a set of tools for talent and development, specifically teams-based coaching, in an organization. It will take the best practices that coaches and facilitators offer top teams and make them available for any manager. Mitchell positions Valence as an affordable alternative to professional coaching.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

. “I realized that combining LLMs trained on code with my research on neural memory and reinforcement learning might allow us to build an AI software engineer that feels like a true colleague, not just a tool. within the next year) is to grow the team to 25 people with a focus on the engineering, product and go-to-market sides.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

The merger brought Ginger’s therapy and coaching offerings together with Headspace’s mindfulness and meditation services. We’re thrilled to bring together our technology, engineering and design expertise to help advance Headspace Health’s efforts to democratize high-quality, affordable mental healthcare around the world.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Pariti’s principal product is the Recommendation Engine, where founders submit their companies for review and feedback from experts on the platform. Then the engine suggests personalized next steps for the founders to take in areas where the company needs help. You’re fostering a certain mentality of ‘we will get further together.’

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say how many engineers we have, so let’s just say “lots,” but not “tons.”

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Xebia

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This is an important technique in prompt engineering, known as a "few-shot prompt", where we ground the model’s response with some examples. In prompt engineering, we usually favour positive examples over negative examples, but in practice you need to include guardrails and limitations. The writing coach enters the room.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

They assist with operations such as QA reporting, coaching, workflow automations, and root cause analysis. MaestroQAs existing rules engine couldnt always answer these types of queries because end-users could ask for the same outcome in many different ways. For example, Can I speak to your manager?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Starting out with just a handful of people on her team, Ricks told TechCrunch that she plans to use the seed round raise to build out the startup’s engineering and sales team to help protect companies from identity theft and phishing attacks.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 30, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus talks with Rich Archbold, vice president of engineering at Intercom.io, about developing an inclusion and diversity plan for his company. What Rich has been learning about diversity and inclusion in engineering teams (1:22). Episode 43. Show Notes. Why diversity isn’t enough (3:33).

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