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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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Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science

The Crazy Programmer

Although these fields initially appear comparable, their variability quickly becomes apparent when several studies are performed. Both software engineers and computer scientists are concerned with computer programs and software improvement and various related fields. What is Software Engineering?

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Software Engineer Performance Reviews Explained

Toptal

Software development is a complex process and evaluating the performance of software engineers can be too. It is important that you find the right balance between that complexity and practicality in software engineer performance reviews.

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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

TechCrunch

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. Decagon runs a six-month software engineering program and selects its candidates based on merit. For its equity financing, Decagon raised money from Kepple Africa and Timon Capital.

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Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers

TechCrunch

For one, they wanted to offer personalized training to help people not just learn to code, but to become “exceptional” software engineers. But the problem is that only about 55% of bootcamp grads are getting a job as a software engineer, and of the ones that do, their median salary is only about $65,000.

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Harness Acquires Propelo to Surface Software Engineering Bottlenecks

DevOps.com

Harness this week announced it has acquired Propelo, a provider of an analytics tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Getting Started with OKRs in Software Engineering

Allstacks

Software engineering aims to provide value to end-users, which is a shared goal with the rest of the company. But we all know it is infinitely more complicated than that, especially for engineering. Measuring software engineering at the rolled-up level that OKRs require has historically been difficult, if not impossible.