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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

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Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It turns out that being able to write software is only a small part of the job.

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How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a unique expense management giant

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So it’s natural to think a company in the expense report management business would keep it simple and play it by the book. But one look at Expensify is enough to tell you that this is a company that never even looked for the book. We have a very unusual internal management structure. We’re an incredibly small company.

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The Ultimate Guide to High-Potential Identification in Tech Hiring

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Customizable technical assessments HackerEarth provides a wide range of coding challenges and assessments tailored to different job roles, from software engineers to data scientists. For example, in a tech startup, HiPo software engineers might stay longer due to the exciting opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code

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Ithaca, New York-based Mintlify was co-founded in 2021 by Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee — both software engineers by trade. “Documentation is the lifeline for junior engineers and those jumping into new codebases. For public-facing and open-source products, documentation has a direct impact on user adoption.”

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Jellyfish aims to ‘do for engineering what Salesforce did for sales’

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As more companies become software companies, what is being created still needs to align with business objectives. Jellyfish believes this can be done by giving software engineering leaders the data and insights they need to do that. In total, the company has raised just over $114 million. billion in 2011.

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

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On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” Ervin is a software engineer by trade, having held roles at AR/VR startups Metaio, Liminal AR and Occipital.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

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As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced.