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TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2021
Expensify founder and CEO David] Barrett, a self-proclaimed alpha geek and lifelong software engineer, was actually Red Swoosh’s last engineering manager, hired after the failure of his first project, iGlance.com , a P2P push-to-talk program that couldn’t compete against Skype.
Honeycomb
AUGUST 3, 2023
So-called “tech debt” could amount to more than two thirds of the different types of work an engineer might touch , if you apply the label broadly. Of course all of this work could make up a significant portion of a responsible engineer’s quarter or year. And there is a business need behind each type.
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CircleCI
OCTOBER 25, 2021
This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. What is a personal retrospective?
LeanEssays
JULY 14, 2019
He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
JUNE 26, 2020
Sachin: Yeah, that’s super inspiring for our audience and, like you correctly said, you got to seek those opportunities, and of course you need a little bit of luck, but if you’re willing to take those risks, doors do open. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people.
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
Software engineering productivity cant be measured. I said, If we had the best product engineering organization in the world, what would it look like? Imagine were the best product engineering org in the world. For example, Associate Software Engineers are hired fresh out of university. So I told the truth.
LaunchDarkly
JUNE 12, 2020
But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. I’ve honestly only gone larger and larger over the course of my career.
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