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Software Engineering at Coinbase vs. Robinhood

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you're a software engineer interested in joining the booming fintech industry, you have undoubtedly heard of two of the current fintech giants: Coinbase and Robinhood. Both companies are actively hiring new engineers at the moment, but which should you choose? Let's get to it! What is Coinbase?

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer.

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How Levels.fyi Brought Salary Transparency to the Tech Industry

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

We realized this was a common question and decided to build a simple visualization to compare software engineer titles across companies. Since then, we’ve expanded into Product Management , Software Engineering Management, and Product Design career tracks! What was your background before starting Levels? What’s next?

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Product Management Journey?—?Developer to Consultant to Product Manager

The Product Coalition

But towards the end of 2 years, I felt like I needed to do more than just code so I decided to pursue a Masters in Software Engineering National University of Singapore. The mobile team was functioning very much as a product organization where they had a roadmap and delivered features which lined up with the vision of the company.

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AI, Hype, And The Future Of Humanity | Rick Nucci, Guru | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

– NLP (natural language processing) another subset or field the AI there’s a ton more; there’s vision, there’s lots of things being done I won’t try to talk about all of them. Today 2018. And that’s pretty cool. What about the capacity of a frog to put that in context. This is different.

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Mike Bonamassa Joins Agile Velocity as Senior Vice President of Delivery

Agile Velocity

Mike has been a friend of AV since joining our team of partner coaches in June of 2018. “A Mike brings over 25 years of experience as a software engineer, Agile coach, and business leader. He embraced Agile methods for the first time in 2005 while leading a major re-engineering project for a large government-sponsored entity.

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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. Resolution Bot launched in October 2018 and went through a significant update (and name change) early this year, and now uses some of the most sophisticated neural network algorithms there are. Key takeaways.