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Article: Q&A on the Book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier explores how to manage engineers and what managers can do to build and run effective teams. It helps people decide if they want to go from an engineering to a manager role and organize and improve their management activities.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

What’s currently broken about training for software engineers? You have to wait for a production crisis to naturally occur in order to learn how to handle it (I do not recommend creating your own :) ). That’s why we immediately started pitching Wilco to every engineer and engineering manager we could talk to.

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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. We hope you enjoy it.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

Or, the small crisis with engineering management. In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” The software engineering community was rethinking some long-held ideas about engineering career paths. This is good.

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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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How we interview software engineers: what we've learned, what we've changed

CircleCI

The self-guided training covers areas such as our hiring process and interviewers’ roles in it, cognitive biases and how to mitigate them, the legal side of interviewing, an introduction to our Applicant-Tracking System (ATS), and how to prepare, run, and close out an interview, as well as how to evaluate candidates.

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Top Green Software Speakers

Apiumhub

Consequently, we’ve curated a list of speakers we are eager to feature in our upcoming events and meetups, aiming to enhance awareness and catalyze a positive influence within the software development industry. Her fascination with the potential of engineers to address climate issues through green software practices began in 2021.