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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Our concern was that it would put a lot more burden on the individual managers to understand their employees and fill out their spreadsheets. As we’ve put it into practice, it’s definitely been a lot of work for managers to fill out the spreadsheets. For managers that know their employees well, the work’s been tolerable.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

They work closely with the team’s other technical leads to advise engineering managers on the capabilities and needs of the team. They combine deep expertise in several specialties with the ability to mentor and coach less experienced team members.

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Nightmares in Employee Onboarding

LaunchDarkly

What has actually happened is that your new hire spends so much time with your subject matter experts and printing out and trying to understand what the documentation actually says, which by the way your documentation is probably poorly written and definitely not organized. We’re all familiar with Test-Driven Development, right?