Knowledge Hut

APRIL 4, 2024

The demand for software engineers has been high in the past decade. As someone who specializes in software engineering, I think you need to create the best resume before you can apply for these job roles. That is why you must create a Microsoft software engineer resume that meets the needs of the company.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 26, 2023

While some of these frameworks, languages, and software engineering tools might significantly speed up and simplify your work, others might leave you with much to regret. What is a Software Engineer? The main responsibility of a software engineer is to construct solutions to issues or to meet requirements.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 13, 2024

People often associate software engineering with complex algorithms, commands, and data structures. Having worked in the software engineering field for many years, I can say that the code can sometimes seem like an alien language. What is Software Engineering?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 19, 2024

A first, smaller wave of these stories included Magic.dev raising $100M in funding from Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub from 2018-2021,) and Daniel Gross (cofounder of search engine Cue which Apple acquired in 2013,) to build a “superhuman software engineer.” I suspect the media campaign is overreaching, though.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 1, 2024

Subscribe to The Pragmatic Engineer to stay up-to-date on what is happening with software engineering, Big Tech, and startups. I suspect the media campaign is overreaching, though. I'm sharing this piece in public more than a month later, as it provides important context and analysis for the AI dev tools space.

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 19, 2023

We are living in a fast-paced tech-driven society where software development is an expanding sector with a variety of career pathways and specialties. Software engineers and web developers are two very well-liked positions in this tech industry. Who is a Software Engineer? Who is a Web Developer?

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The US, among many advanced countries, offers high-paying jobs in software. However, there is a lot more to know about the average salary for software engineers in the USA. Who is a Software Engineer, and Why Do We Need Them? What are the Various Roles of a Software Engineer and Their Salary?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 4, 2024

In October, we looked into bootstrapped companies founded by software engineers and the article resonated with many readers; I got lots of messages from bootstrapped founders following that issue. I took to social media to gather more information, and a surprising number of complaints from US tech businesses came in.

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Pinterest Engineering

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Khubi Shah | (former) Software Engineer Intern, Shopping Content Mining This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to intern at the one and only Pinterest from the new engineering hub in Toronto! Team Placement I joined as a Software Engineering Intern on the Shopping Content Mining team (SCM) based in Toronto.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 3, 2023

I have collaborated with a tech recruiter - they’ve asked to be anonymous - who’s been running some very interesting queries on LinkedIn for software engineers. Although AWS and Salesforce also hired during this period, both have announced cuts which include software engineers.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 1, 2023

I’d like to share a story about an educational side project which could prove fruitful for a software engineer who’s seeking a new job. Juraj Majerik is an Amsterdam-based software engineer who decided to improve his applied knowledge of containerization, multiprocessing and observability.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 26, 2024

Zuzanna Mroczek, a software engineer on Meta’s Media Platform Team, joins Pascal Hartig ( @passy ) on the Meta Tech Podcast to talk about how her team, which owns the entire flow from serving images from the CDN to displaying them on your device, is driving up image quality across apps, platforms, and devices.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 9, 2023

As a first peek, let’s cover how we arrive at the numbers, like those in this set: “Median employee” vs a senior software engineer The data we share today is for “median employee compensation.” Looking only at engineering, senior engineers are somewhat above the median.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The DevTernity conference is organized “by a small team of software engineers from Singapore, Estonia, and the Netherlands,” as per the website. Is there even a real female software engineer behind the “Coding Unicorn” account, and does a developer with the name Julia Kirsina exist?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Today’s newsletter closes with a full chapter from this book, visualizing when Elon Musk demanded all Twitter software engineers print out their code on paper (!!) For engineers, it was a little trickier: he needed at least some of them to keep the site running. Fourteen years at Google as a software engineer.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2021, an impressive 67% of graduates got a software engineering job within 8 weeks, and in 2022 this number was 74% and close to 100% after 6 months, with a $124K average base salary. Tech is still eating the world and we still need top notch software engineers. I asked him how 2023 compares.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 30, 2023

The company was founded by software engineers Logan Green and John Zimmer in 2012 and raised $4.9B It was only in 2020 that Lyft was paying top of the market entry-level software engineers than any other company in the US. Why did GitHub fire its engineering team in India?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 20, 2023

Until early 2022, the software engineering levels at Uber were: Engineering levels at Uber, 2014-2022 Back when I was at Uber in around 2020, I saw statistics about the spread of these levels. The full The Scoop edition additionally covers: Meta’s second round of engineering cuts.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 3, 2023

Based on information from insiders, Google’s coding competitions engaged more than 300,000 software engineers external to Google, annually. These coding competitions assisted in the hiring of thousands of software engineers each year, who were directly sourced from these events. A follow-up.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

” From that moment on, things sped up for many software engineers at Twitter. On Friday, they were told to print out their code for Musk and Tesla engineers to review it. Other engineers were told to prepare for “code pairing” with Musk, in which they would sit with him and review code together.”

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Chronosphere was actually founded by two former software engineers: Rob Skillington – the CTO of the company – and Martin, acting as CEO. It’s not common to have only engineering founders at a company: my gut feel is that at infrastructure startups, such a setup can make a lot more sense.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

APRIL 6, 2023

Several software engineers rose to the occasion by doing precisely this over the past few months. The average salary posted for a ‘Machine Learning Engineer’ job title is 19% higher than for a ‘Software Engineer’ job title!” Comprehensive.io crawls job sites and parses the data.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The company made changes so all software engineers will work from the same location—Bishopsgate 22—and they are renting an additional three floors so all the software engineers will fit. Needless to say, engineers whom I talked to aren’t happy about the 3 days/week being enforced.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Talks The Netflix Data Engineering Stack Chris Stephens, Data Engineer, Content & Studio and Pedro Duarte, Software Engineer, Consolidated Logging walk engineers new to Netflix through the building blocks of the Netflix Data Engineering stack.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JUNE 8, 2023

Across tech, it’s not that common to issue stock to all software engineers. Of course, Big Tech and most “tech-first” companies at which software engineering is a profit center, do this. Making key employees who create value into shareholders is a common practice, as it aligns interests.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 22, 2023

Q: “I play video games, and I was wondering how building games compares to more ‘standard’ software development. I’d love to get a glimpse into the game development world, and how it compares to the software engineering approaches at tech companies.” So, let’s start with the basics.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MAY 11, 2023

I wanted to find the truth, so I tracked down software engineers at the company. I can confirm this, having talked with both current and former software engineers at Coinbase who shared details of what happened. Why was Netflix lower down the list than many software engineers expected?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2022

I decided to publish this section for everyone to read after the Business Insider article claiming that 15% of Facebook employees - 12,000 people - may lose their jobs started to spread within the media. The Business Insider article was not specific to software engineers but still spread heavily within tech circles.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I broke this news about many engineering leaders and software engineers being affected. I also broke this news and my sources report those let go include product managers, leadership and a few software engineers Zillow – a real estate tech company, let go 300 employees as per TechCrunch.

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Knowledge Hut

JUNE 26, 2023

Having knowledge of real-world software applications or projects are very essential for any projects for backend developers aspiring software engineers or developers. Social media project You can build a backend for a social media site with the help of this project.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Between 2010 to 2021, one of the best strategies for maximizing your total compensation as a software engineer was to follow this recipe: Identify late-stage, fast-growing, private companies which seemed close to going public. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. Competing with Big Tech.

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Pinterest Engineering

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Liang Ma | Software Engineer, Core Eng; Scott Beardsley | Engineering Manager, Traffic; Haowei Yuan | Software Engineer, Traffic Figure 1 — HTTP/3 at Pinterest Now Pinterest operates on HTTP/3. Improved latency/throughput are critical to large media features (such as video, images).

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Some software engineers who worked over the weekend to ship the Verified functionality on a tight deadline were let go. Another software engineer refused to do any work during the weekend and was expected to be fired, but they were not. I talked with another software engineer based in Europe whose manager was let go.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

According to internal chatter, about 30% of software engineers have asked for an exception, and managers are still unsure how many of the exceptions will be approved. I’ve been talking with software engineers and managers at a variety of companies which have all mandated returning to the office during the past weeks.

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Knowledge Hut

JUNE 20, 2023

They are responsible for developing, designing, testing, writing, modifying, and debugging software based on specific requirements. Therefore, there are many software skills to learn which will help a software aspirant to succeed in this field. Many small businesses desire to benefit from online and social media advertising.

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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. A software engineer who was given this severance agreement contacted Glassdoor to complain about their employer, but never heard back. To get full articles twice a week, subscribe here.

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Engineering at Meta

JULY 17, 2023

From a product perspective, we need to ensure that HDR is correctly preserved through our entire media pipeline to provide a quality user experience all the way from the creator’s device through our server-side video processing/storage and, ultimately, view-side delivery and playback.

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