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

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. Unblock bottlenecks?

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Why Engineers Should Participate in Discovery

Product Talk

Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan , in Inspired , argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.” And, sadly, many engineers make this mistake themselves.

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What Does a Security Engineer Do?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

This article is part of our series on Security Engineering. If you're interviewing for engineering roles, don't miss our Complete Software Engineering Interview Course. This is not only because of the importance of the discipline but because the supply of qualified security engineers is too little.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower - Product Management

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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Digital Sustainability: A Growing Frontier in Software Development

The Product Coalition

That’s why these skills can prove to be useful when consulting with software engineers and other specialists in deciding which languages to use when energy efficiency is a priority. Data Accuracy and Reliability: Prioritize software with reliable data collection methods and an up-to-date emission factors database.

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Onboarding with the Amplitude Engineering Team: Q&A with Eric Wang

Amplitude

Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. I’m a software engineer on the product engineering team. I help build the platform where our users explore the data they send to us.

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How Quality Assurance Protects the Software Development Process

The Product Coalition

Enhances user experience: User experience is the element in the success or failure of a software product. Better quality assurance, better performance of the software, fewer bugs/errors, which increase user retention.