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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

What’s currently broken about training for software engineers? That’s why we immediately started pitching Wilco to every engineer and engineering manager we could talk to. With everything that’s happening in the industry these days, I’m more confident than ever in our choice of investors.

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

CircleCI

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. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

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.

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Diving Deep Into The World Of Data Science With Ashutosh Kumar

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Also read: Inside The Mind Of A Data Scientist HackerEarth: What are some of the mistakes/misconceptions (top 3) that you have seen recruiters or engineering managers make when hiring data scientists/data analysts? The industry needs people who can not only understand algorithms but who can also code.

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Middesk raises $57M to automate business verification and underwriting

TechCrunch

” Mack previously worked at Checkr , where he managed and built the solution consulting team. Ruppel was a senior software engineer at Zendesk before joining Checkr, where he worked with Mack as an engineering manager. Middesk provides data on businesses in the U.S. legal claims against property).

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Tech Leadership books

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The Manager`s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier. Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson.