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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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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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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 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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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.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Budgeting and longer-term planning Researching our competitive space and industry trends Meeting with customers and prospects, for a variety of reasons: to help a key prospect get excited about Honeycomb, to share best practices, or even to apologize for downtime or issues and communicate our plan for future improvement (thankfully rarely needed) Public (..)