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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

But I’m hoping that will help provide clarity to engineers and give them the opportunity to pick and choose which skills they want to work on first. We also offer step promotions, such as Software Engineer 1 to Software Engineer 2, which come when the engineer is proportionally far along their way to the next title.)

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

We’ve also been able to use the new career ladder as a touchstone for people who are having performance problems. Manager-Led Evaluation The old career ladder was employee-led. Each employee was expected to take ownership of their progression by providing examples of their skills. Verdict: So far, so good.

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Sherry Zhou, Engineering Manager

Cloudera

Sherry is an Engineering Manager for the CDV (Cloudera Data Visualization) team. Her team’s objectives are to, first, make it easier for analysts to explore data, enabling them to uncover interesting trends in product features and performance. She is currently working on a master’s degree in software engineering at Oxford.

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Interview with Annie Freeman, Green Software Expert

Apiumhub

At Apiumhub , we have started a series of interviews with green software experts to raise awareness about green software. Our first interview was with Paola Annis , engineering manager at Microsoft and founding member of the Green Software Foundation , and now we had the pleasure of having an interview with Annie Freeman.

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Sustainable Software Talks and Latest News About Green Software

Apiumhub

In recent months, Apiumhub has hosted insightful sustainable software talks featuring two great speakers addressing the intersection of software engineering and environmental sustainability. Shaping Electricity Demand Freeman proposed reshaping electricity demand patterns to diminish dependence on fossil fuels.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

For example, MEDDIC —or the variant I’m more familiar with, MEDDPICC. For example, for our customer-facing web application, we might set an SLO that 99.9% By setting a shared expectation up front for how services should perform, teams are then able to frame the need for scaling and reliability work in terms of risk to the SLO.

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5 Books for QA Engineers

Apiumhub

It differs from others primarily in its attachment to the conditions of the real world, using the example of well-known Silicon Valley development companies. 2 – Testing Computer Software , by Lee Copeland. It is very detailed, and has examples of where significant testing advantage has been gained by using this technique.