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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. But what if the trainees can not afford the program in the first place?

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How to Hire Great Software Engineers – Standards, Tips & More

The Crazy Programmer

Software engineering is one of the most sought-after careers in the current labor market in today’s world of digital transformation and technological advancement, where the demand for specialized technical skills is constantly increasing, and the need for developing custom software solutions flourishes.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023. 1 option,” he says.

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Landed tackles hospitality employee turnover with end-to-end recruitment matching tool

TechCrunch

The company touts itself as the “first end-to-end recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries,” by automating the process of candidate sourcing, engagement and interviewing. Workstream raised $48 million in Series B funding for its text-based recruitment approach. That’s where Landed comes in.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Amogh Desai, Software Engineer II

Cloudera

This month’s #ClouderaLife Spotlight features software engineer Amogh Desai. It also happens that the cloud providers update their instance types and deprecate them all the time leading to installation failures, making the customers feel that the software is faulty when truly it is the hardware.

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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Krishna Birla, Software Engineer

Cloudera

Krishna is a Software Engineer working on our Compute Platform and operates out of Bangalore, India. His primary responsibility is to develop, test and maintain software applications that provide compute services to various Cloudera products. Technology and design are his major interest areas.