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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

In a February poll by Infragistics, more than half (53%) of software developers and IT professionals said that the biggest challenge this year will be recruiting developers with the right skills. Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 million by 2030.

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The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding

Honeycomb

The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software engineering teams. Honeycomb has a well-deserved reputation for punching far above our weight when it comes to recruiting and retaining top-notch talent.

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Staffing Up Your CoPE

Honeycomb

In this post, we’ll outline a strategy that’ll help you find and recruit these colleagues. 2) Once the members are recruited, bring them together in a regular meeting to talk about the CoPE’s mandate, what they want to achieve, and why. Finding people who match those characteristics doesn’t need to be hard.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. Hiring is so hard?—?finding extremely well.

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Independent, Involved, Informed, and Informative: The Characteristics of a CoPE

Honeycomb

Don’t miss the next post in the series, where we’ll go into recruiting CoPE members, and what strategy you should employ. Let’s go even deeper next time! That concludes our discussion of the location of a CoPE within an organization.

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

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. Don’t just talk to the recruiter. Well, one, if you count me I guess.