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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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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. What will Wilco’s impact be if our “flight simulator for engineers” works at scale?

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Sherry Zhou, Engineering Manager

Cloudera

Sherry is an Engineering Manager for the CDV (Cloudera Data Visualization) team. There she interned and then enrolled in a coding boot camp, which included training and aid in job placement. Software development is a creative outlet for me,” she said. It even had a place to sleep as students had intense project schedules.

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

CircleCI

We also design all our roles and job descriptions and evaluate candidates based on our Engineering Competency Matrix. Last year, we introduced interviewer training for all our interviewers. Our interviewer training is made up of a self-guided training and interview shadowing. Providing a positive candidate experience.

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Top 20 Female Speakers in Software Development Events

Apiumhub

Mentorship and Training: Providing mentorship and training opportunities for aspiring female speakers can help them develop their public speaking skills and build confidence to speak at software development events.

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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.