The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 9, 2023

Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation. We cover two out of seven topics from today’s subscriber-only deep-dive on Compensation at publicly traded tech companies. During this time, I’ve collected data on 100 tech companies.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 11, 2023

The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. The company made $1.67B revenue in 2022, circa $140M per month. However, analysts attend these calls whose bread and butter is crunching the numbers and figuring out what a company might be trying to hide.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 23, 2023

In October 2022, I wrote about the start of a Big Tech hiring slowdown. Then in December 2022, I collected insights from tech recruiters , concluding that the market had slowed down from the frenzy of 2021-Q1 2022 and noted that every recruiter had shared there was some slowdown in the number of positions companies were hiring for.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

  He then worked at the casual games company Zynga, building their in-game advertising platform. Joshua is currently VP of Product & Strategy at VMware, a cloud computing and virtualization technology company. Joshua has remained technical while working as an executive. With that, it’s over to Joshua: 1.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 2, 2023

A year ago, I spent months doing an investigative report on how UK events tech company Pollen had its staff work for free, as it had run out of money but still kept operating. The company kept promising that missing wages would arrive – but they never did. The company went bankrupt, and the details I uncovered were troubling.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 13, 2023

Such a steep decline in the volume of angel rounds is concerning, as it may mean we see fewer companies ‘graduate’ into seed rounds when they validate there’s a problem space worth solving for. This report shares data and analysis on quarterly US VC dealmaking, exit and fundraising activity. year low in the US.

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Christophe Blefari

APRIL 5, 2024

MDS Fest is a free virtual 5 days conference about Modern Data Stack topics, a lot of awesome speakers, there are a few talks I can't wait to watch. On my side I'll talk about Apache Superset and what you can do to build a complete application with it. I'll speak at the  MDS Fest 2.0 next week on April 10.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 13, 2023

In case you somehow missed it: we went through the fastest bank run in history, in an event that impacted about half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK. Half of all venture-backed companies in the US used SVB, making the bank the most important financial institution in the US startup tech sector.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 21, 2024

Other shipped things include  DALL·E 3  (image generation,)  GPT-4  (an advanced model,) and the  OpenAI API  which developers and companies use to integrate AI into their processes. For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does it work?

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Data Engineering Podcast

APRIL 23, 2023

Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management RudderStack helps you build a customer data platform on your warehouse or data lake. How have the focus and goals of the platform and company evolved over the past 2 years? Can you describe what Meroxa is and the story behind it?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 3, 2023

How software engineer populations have changed across Big Tech: The percentage change in software engineer roles at various companies, between Oct 2022 and Jan 2023. I hear TikTok is hiring aggressively, mostly in the US. It has also hired some engineers in Poland, where the company opened its first European R&D office in 2021.

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Cloudera

APRIL 11, 2024

Having worked across marketing teams from companies in food delivery to software development, Lan understands the importance of partner success to support positive customer outcomes. Partnerships are not just about mutual support; they are the catalyst of innovation at Cloudera. How do they impact the work happening at Cloudera?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A Google Cloud region (europe-west-9) went offline for about a day, and a zone was offline for two weeks (europe-west-9-a.) ( incident details ). The largest AWS region (us-east-1) degraded heavily for 3 hours, impacting 104 AWS services. We did a deepdive into this incident earlier in AWS’s us-east-1 outage.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 25, 2023

I got a message from a software engineer working at a company which laid off 30% of staff in December 2022. The engineer wrote: “My company is removing Glassdoor reviews because their rating has gotten so low. The company’s score went to 2.3 The company’s score went to 2.3 and they started doing this.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Microsoft was the first major company to come up with a specialized testing role which went well beyond manual testing. Surprisingly, even this year I heard of a Silicon Valley-based company where a developer team has the test team write unit tests! The best part of this change was that there was no more “us vs them.”

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The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Disclaimer: I’m an investor in this company, having invested due to knowing Willem so well after working together for years. I thought this a great time to ask about his experience between working at a startup, and working at a large company, as it’s the second time Willem has gone from a large company to startup.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 13, 2023

To show the complexity of this choice and the ways tech businesses approach it, this article brings the inside story of one large tech company that’s decided against onboarding to the cloud – at least for now. What are the use cases where the company already utilizes public cloud? Agoda in numbers Agoda lists 3.6M

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The Pragmatic Engineer

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Apple was the first Big Tech giant to mandate a proper return to the office and back in September 2022, this initiative was in full swing, being rolled out in the US and with 3 days per week in the office mandated in the UK. When RTO started, the company had several smaller offices across the city.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Before jumping to the news there are a few events I want to write about. Next Wednesday I will participate to a Data Night Talk a open discussion about AI & data engineering with other content creators. I working on a 10-minute light talk about data engines (🦆) and a funny game. We will do it online / in-person.

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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 11, 2023

Sorting all the eggs of the landscape ( credits ) Dear readers, this week Data News lands on Saturday and will be a little bit different than usual because I found less relevant article and as promised last week I wanted to speak about the MAD Landscape. Evolution between 2012 and 2023. Which is kinda broken.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

See the tech whistleblower guide Quit the company, ensuring he did not further aid this activity  The smart thing would have been to do #1. See the tech whistleblower guide Quit the company, ensuring he did not further aid this activity  The smart thing would have been to do #1. FTX collapsed in November 2022.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JULY 13, 2023

I receive and validate plenty of interesting information from insiders at these companies, but my main focus is analyzing what’s going on in our industry; the implications of that and the opportunities for software engineers and tech businesses. The company started making waves in 2017, when it raised a €4M seed round.

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Tweag

APRIL 17, 2024

If you’ve never heard of cloud native computing before, it has a number of definitions online, but the simplest one is that it’s mostly about Kubernetes. For one, the schedule included a security track, with a fair share of talks being about SBOMs tying back into the problem of containers that ship an opaque content without inventory.

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Snowflake

APRIL 22, 2024

While this acquisition was a strategic fit for Magnite, integrating the two companies’ data platforms presented a unique set of challenges. Magnite was operating its Snowflake data platform on AWS US West, whereas SpringServe had its presence on AWS US East.

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 26, 2024

Let us dig deeper and understand every aspect in detail. It is about being adaptive to change and pivoting at the right time to be in sync with the changing environments. Let us discuss them in detail. It helps them get familiar with the basics of agile methodology and use it to deliver high-quality end products right on time!

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Precisely

APRIL 25, 2024

Hello Jean-Paul, could you tell us a little about your background? This is how I created iValue Consulting, where I have supported a good number of companies in defining and implementing a “data strategy” with data governance and quality as its cornerstone. Leaving someone by the wayside is not an option!

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 26, 2024

Also called data storage areas , they help users to understand the essential insights about the information they represent. Every problem statement we are dealing with comprises of data, which helps us better understand the problem and draw better insights from data by applying ML methods. In the real world, data sets are huge.

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 23, 2024

SQL developers are in high demand in various parts of the world, and SQL developer salary is based on the company that is hiring you, the location of the job, and the skills you possess. The salary majorly depends on several factors like industry, company, location, experience, and education. The minimum salary that you can earn is Rs.

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Cloudera

APRIL 26, 2024

Let’s hear what Antoine had to say about allyship. It’s about listening more and judging less, creating space for diverse voices to be heard and respected. How does Cloudera support allyship across the company? How do you use elements of these pillars every day? What does allyship mean to you?

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 16, 2024

Especially the management students who are landing up managerial jobs in the reputed multinational companies must be aware of the stiff competition that they have to face in the corporate world. Know more about importance of project charter. The main aim is to do the primary check about the foundation of the management career.

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Cloudera

MARCH 26, 2024

Companies must act now in order to stay in the AI Race. What about security, privacy, and trust concerns? It is more important than ever for companies to support the deployment of customer AI use cases, which is why I am excited about Cloudera’s Enterprise AI Fast Start. Don’t wait any longer!

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ThoughtSpot

JANUARY 16, 2024

At ThoughtSpot, Selfless Excellence is the heart of who we are as a company. Each quarter, we recognize an employee who embodies the values of Selfless Excellence: hardwork and integrity; solving meaningful problems; and caring about colleagues, partners, and customers. Read all about what this win means to him. Congratulations!

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 25, 2024

With increasing cyberattacks, companies must choose cyber security services to save themselves from data breaches. Also, you need to know about these alarming 10 interesting facts about cyber security to understand cybercrimes. Also, the company might have to pay if a hacker successfully steals data.

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Robinhood

MARCH 26, 2024

Today’s announcements at Robinhood Presents: The New Gold Standard bring us one step closer to the goal of giving everyone better access to the financial system,” said Tenev. We built Robinhood to be a new kind of financial services company—one aimed at helping everyone build toward their financial goals. Robinhood Credit, Inc.

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Snowflake

MARCH 4, 2024

Welcome to Snowflake’s Startup Spotlight, where we learn about companies building their businesses on Snowflake. In this edition, we’ll hear how Maria Marti, founder and CEO of ZeroError , used her experiences as an engineer and an executive to build a team and create the AI analytics assistant she always wanted — but never had.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 22, 2023

There are numerous IT companies in the USA since last few decades. But who is the leader among IT companies in the USA? Or Which companies have successfully grabbed a position in the list of top IT companies in the USA? Why are IT companies in the USA flourishing? But there are several reasons behind it.

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ThoughtSpot

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In this blog, we will learn more about our recent hire Kelley Jarrett who joined us as SVP Strategy, Operations and Enablement Kelley Jarrett recently joined ThoughtSpot as SVP Strategy, Operations and Enablement, and is based out of Charleston, South Carolina. Here’s what she has to say about #LifeAtThoughtSpot.

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