Landing Your First Data Science Job
Touted as the “next frontier for innovation,” data in the business world has been exploding in recent years, and…
Top Tech Companies Prioritize These 4 Programming Languages
In a world with hundreds of programming languages, keeping up with the latest in-fashion language could be a full-time…
4 Skills Every Successful Engineering Manager Has Mastered
While engineering is sometimes thought of as a solitary craft, building modern technology products requires cohesive and collaborative teams…
Running Effective Meetings: An Engineer's Guide
If you’re the leader of a software development team, chances are good that your engineers spend more time than…
Five Tips to Level Up Your Programming Career
As programmers, we’re heads down coding so much it’s easy to forget about career growth. Feeling unmotivated at work…
Balance Between Breadth and Depth of Learning Software Development
As a junior developer, you probably feel as if there are endless new technologies, languages, and practices being developed…
Do You Need a Technical Background to be a Great Product Manager? The Answer is No
If you’re tempted by a product management career but worried about a lack of technical skills, don’t despair, as…
3 Ways to Stay Relevant as an Experienced Software Engineer
This piece is a part of ‘The Career Strategist’ blog series Unlike other industries, tech can be seen as…
How Sharing Context Early (and Often) Engages Your Engineering Team
There's a common misconception that software developers just want to write code. Their co-workers are wary of annoying them,…
Work Smart: Efficient Learning as a Junior Developer
Progressing professionally in software development requires that you figure out how you learn. This field changes quickly and dramatically,…
How to Work with Product Designers as a Software Engineer
So you’ve joined a new team, and now you get to work with a product designer, or maybe you’ve…
Planning for and Responding to Software Failures
You’ve probably heard Murphy’s law: “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.” That sounds hyperbolic, perhaps because it’s a…
Want To Stand Out Amongst Software Engineers? Try Competitive Programming
In a world full of established talent and up-and-coming self-trained coders, it can be difficult to stand out as…