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Former Blue Origin rocket engine manager alleges wrongful termination for whistleblowing on safety

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The former program manager of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging whistleblower retaliation after he spoke up about safety issues. It includes a detailed narrative about program manager Craig Stoker’s efforts over seven months to […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager

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TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. Ride-hail loyalty comes at a price : Uber is phasing out its free loyalty program in favor of its subscription-based Uber One membership, Rebecca reports. ” The subscription pie is getting bigger: How to leverage usage-based billing.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. What do engineers need to thrive at work?

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Sherry Zhou, Engineering Manager

Cloudera

Sherry is an Engineering Manager for the CDV (Cloudera Data Visualization) team. I also really like the company’s Cloudera Cares program, which matches donations to charities and causes.” She adds, “They are always coming up with new and interesting programs.”

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How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a unique expense management giant

TechCrunch

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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Sequoia’s Surge reveals 15 India, SEA startups in seventh cohort

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Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Nearly half of them have a presence in the U.S. and European markets, Sequoia said.

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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

My one sentence definition of a data scientist is: a data scientist is someone who has augmented their math and statistics background with programming to analyze data and create applied mathematical models. A common data scientist trait is that they’ve picked up programming out of necessity to accomplish what they couldn’t do otherwise.