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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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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Barnabas Maidics, Software Engineer

Cloudera

Barnabas is a 3 year Clouderan working as a Software Engineer in Hungary. . At the early age of 14, Barnabas was already settled on the fact that he would become a Software Engineer when he grew up. As a Software Engineer at Cloudera, Barnabas gets to experience rewarding work with emerging technologies like Apache Kafka.

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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

TechCrunch

Tonic is a “synthetic data” platform that transforms raw data into more manageable and private datasets usable by software engineers and business analysts. Tonic’s approach has the benefit of helping solve not just privacy issues, but also scalability challenges as datasets get larger and larger in size. Tonic’s team.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

Role growth: 20% of businesses have added cloud systems engineer roles as part of their cloud investments. Cloud software engineer Cloud software engineers are tasked with developing and maintaining software applications that run on cloud platforms, ensuring they are built to be scalable, reliable, and agile.

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Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases

TechCrunch

” Shamgunov, a former software engineer at Microsoft and Meta, founded SingleStore before incubating Neon at Khosla Ventures with Heikki Linnakangas and Stas Kelvich in 2021. Kelvich studied physics before joining embattled tech giant Yandex as a software engineer on the database team.

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The [Often] Overlooked Skillset: Top 8 Soft Skills for Software Engineers

Gorilla Logic

Skill #5: Creative problem solving Solving challenging problems under the pressure of time and budget constraints is all in a day’s work in the world of software development. As a software engineer, you need to identify problems, understand their root cause, analyze data, and develop solutions that meet and surpass expectations.

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What do software engineers do?

Openxcell

Software engineering jobs carry a whole lot of hype around it. Regardless of the toil a software engineer goes through, it is certainly a well-paying career profile that has a bright future. What is a Software Engineer? Application software developers. What is the average salary of Software Engineers?