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Top 10 Soft Skills for Software Developers in 2022

The Crazy Programmer

There was a time when the companies evaluated the performance of a software engineer based on how quickly they delivered the tasks. But, 2022 is a different scenario in software development teams. Today called developers, professional software engineers are aware of the importance of soft skills.

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Finding a New Software Developer Job

Henrik Warne

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. One company used an IQ test from Alva labs, so I paid for a practice course called Alva Logic Cram Course from 12minprep (there were lots of vendors, but this was relatively cheap). Here is what I learnt from the process.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

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.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

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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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

Gen AI-related job listings were particularly common in roles such as data scientists and data engineers, and in software development. They can certainly educate internally, but the technology is evolving so rapidly that by the time you finish a grad school course or program, the technology is different.

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53% of IT leaders see AI replacing headcount — others question that approach

CIO

Developer roles in danger Of course, IT leaders are well aware of these arguments in favor of AI as a force multiplier rather than a workforce replacer. Up to 40% of the current software engineers may no longer be needed three years from now, as AI takes over routine tasks, he says.

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MergeStat channels open source and SQL to bring ‘operational analytics’ to software engineering

TechCrunch

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. “If it’s involved in building or shipping software, we’d like to make it possible to query with SQL.”