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Is there a drop in software engineer job openings, globally?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Here’s how the number of postings have fluctuated over time: The number of companies posting on the monthly Hacker News “Who is Hiring” post, between Dec 2012 and Mar 2023. We see a noticeable dip in April 2020 – when Covid-19 lockdowns began – when the number of companies hiring dropped from 670 to 480.

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Lyft in Trouble

The Pragmatic Engineer

The company was founded by software engineers Logan Green and John Zimmer in 2012 and raised $4.9B Lyft is a rideshare platform that’s a direct competitor to Uber, operating in the US and Canada. in funding before going public in 2019, at a value of $29B.

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Continuously Improving Developer Productivity at Snowflake

Snowflake

In 2012, Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes founded Snowflake. Snowflake was embarking on a remarkable transformation of developer productivity, and I had to jump on the rocket ship as it was taking off! Lets start from the beginning. Our founders believe every engineer should write code, regardless of seniority.

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The job market for new grads: worse than in 2008, but better than 2002

The Pragmatic Engineer

Despite being early in on the coding bootcamp fad back in 2012, I never bought into that approach, mainly because of my traumatic early years. 'I learned that no matter how amazing the job or company, it was all about my own abilities. 'That uncertainty also had a significant influence in how I built Launch School.

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Robinhood Forges Strategic Partnership with KLUTCH Sports Group

Robinhood

Paul founded KLUTCH in 2012, specializing in the representation of NBA clients. About KLUTCH Sports Group Founded in 2012 by CEO Rich Paul, KLUTCH Sports Group is a premier agency representing some of the world’s biggest athletes across major professional sports.

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How to get started with dbt

Christophe Blefari

In terms of paradigms before 2012 we were doing ETL because storage was expensive, so it became a requirement to transform data before the data storage—mainly a data warehouse, to have the most optimised data for querying. First let's understand why dbt exists. This switch has been lead by modern data stack vision.

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Snowflake’s Fully Managed Service: Beyond Serverless

Snowflake

Snowflake has embraced serverless since our founding in 2012, with customers providing their code to load, manage and query data and us taking care of the rest. . "Serverless computing" has enabled customers to use cloud capabilities without provisioning, deploying and managing either hardware or software resources.