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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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ONE THING on Leading without Authority

Product Culture

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Continuous Improvement: How It’s Important for Software Developers

The Product Coalition

Incremental = inexpensive: This principle also involves software developers’ bases. Most software engineers work in custom software development firms, so it’s easier for them to see which parts need continuous improvement. Little incremental changes are often inexpensive.

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Remote Work Is Changing Tech Salaries In The Era Of Coronavirus

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

High pay, the California dream, and snack bars are just a smattering of images that pop in your head when you think of software builders working for big-name tech companies in California. Software Engineers , data scientists, and project managers are smart people. Will that change at the end of the coronavirus pandemic?

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams

The Product Coalition

Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Goodhart’s Law Back in 1975, the British economist Charles Goodhart first published the idea that would carry his name, when he wrote about monetary policy.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. Here we asked Will to tell us a little about the four archetypes of staff roles, namely architect, tech lead, solver, and right hand.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Kaitlyn : Honesty is really the best policy. There were 68 different systems that they were using, from notepads to wikis to Google Drive folders to a SharePoint site, to you name it. It is very different than traditional software engineering. That’s how we think about chatbots here at Guru. You can do amazing things.