The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 30, 2023

The company was founded by software engineers Logan Green and John Zimmer in 2012 and raised $4.9B The company is bleeding money: in 2022 it brought in $4.1B It is pretty telling that the company’s revenue was $4B in 2022 but its market cap is a mere $3.3B. In 2022, the company issued $767M in stock to employees.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Originally published on 24 November 2022. 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. I was really hoping to not report anything more about Twitter, and that software engineers at the company would get space to heal after the traumatic events, and to focus on building the product.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Three featured speakers listed at DevTernity 2021, 2022 and 2023, and JDKon 2024. In 2022, another odd profile stood out: a speaker with no Twitter handle and a weird title; Natalie Stadler “Software Craftswoman at Coinbase:” Speakers at DevTernity 2022. These people do not exist.

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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. The most common cause, unsurprisingly, is the layoffs announced during Q4 2022 at Twitter, DocuSign, Robinhood, Meta, and Stripe.

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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.” My take is a little different.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about companies laying off people. November 2022 16 November Hopin. The 3rd layoffs in 2022, combined with the transformation of the company. On 8 November, Daimler decided to shut down Beat, including letting go ~600 people, ~170 of whom were 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. Persistence.

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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

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 engineer didn’t post a negative review for a year to protect their severance.

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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 company pretty much renamed senior 2 engineer as staff engineer, and updated the titles from L6.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Image source: The Atlas story Today, it is compute that’s much cheaper than software engineers’ time. In the US, a software engineer working at a Big Tech company is compensated more than 100 times the cost of a high-end laptop, annually.    So why the sudden rise in use of remote environments?

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KDnuggets

JUNE 21, 2022

Also: The Complete Collection of Data Science Books - Part 2; The 6 Python Machine Learning Tools Every Data Scientist Should Know About; The Complete Collection of Data Science Books - Part 1; Data Science Projects That Will Land You The Job in 2022; Software Developer vs Software Engineer.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This month’s #ClouderaLife Spotlight features software engineer Amogh Desai. Here we discuss his background, how he got started at Cloudera, and his recent win at the Cloudera 2022 Global Hackathon. Check out his Blog on Medium where he discusses productivity and creative thinking around software development.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And speaking of books, this year I  finally  published the project I’ve been busy writing for years on the side of the newsletter:  The Software Engineer’s Guidebook. For reviews of earlier years, see The Pragmatic Engineer  in 2021  and  in 2022.

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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. Cognition AI is positioning Devin as a possible replacement for an engineer, and more, and so is Magic.dev, which claims its aiming for a “superhuman software engineer."

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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

APRIL 13, 2023

Source: Dealroom In 2022, Angel rounds were at the lowest by cumulative value since 2015, which is even worse than we’ve seen in the US. Source: Dealroom Seed investments have dropped since 2021, but in 2022 were around the same level as in 2020 – and well above 2019. Seed investments in Europe.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 14, 2024

However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks that software engineers find interesting, engaging, and educational. Talks about software engineering topics and managing teams. Amsterdam, engineering manager at Uber). Emad Ghorbaninia (Denmark, mobile lead engineer.)

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This article was originally published a week ago, on 3 October 2024, in The Pragmatic Engineer. To get timely analysis on software engineering industry in your inbox, subscribe. To maintain 2021-2022 valuations, companies need to increase revenue and profitability.

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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.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

AUGUST 14, 2024

However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks that software engineers find interesting, engaging, and educational. Talks about software engineering topics and managing teams. Amsterdam, engineering manager at Uber). Emad Ghorbaninia (Denmark, mobile lead engineer.)

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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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Christophe Blefari

MARCH 1, 2023

dbt is a development framework that combines modular SQL with software engineering best practices to make data transformation reliable, fast, and fun. So the analytics engineers are the one doing this. By the position of this role and the freshness of it, people are coming into analytics engineering from data analytics.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This issue was written in Oct 2022, sent out to all subscribers of The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in October 2022. I broke this news about many engineering leaders and software engineers being affected. Again, the vast majority of layoffs were not tech roles, nor software engineers.

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Christophe Blefari

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With dbt, you can apply software engineering practices to SQL development. roadmaps 2022-08 and 2023-02 ). cross-project dependencies ( credits ) Over the last few years, dbt has become a de facto standard enabling companies to collaborate easily on data transformations. Managing your SQL patrimony has never been easier.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Business Insider article was not specific to software engineers but still spread heavily within tech circles. Before un-paywalling this section, there has not been anything publicly accessible that delivers information about the software engineering side of things. Starting from 2022, they run once a year.

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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 (!!) Code review on printed paper: an excerpt from the Twitoons book A year ago, the end of October 2022 was a very turbulent time at Twitter. This one.

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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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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. Needless to say, engineers whom I talked to aren’t happy about the 3 days/week being enforced.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 21, 2024

in 2022 and is only to increase further in the future. This gives rise to opportunities for engineers to create a career in software development. It isn’t a surprise that aspiring software engineers are always looking for a chance to be part of Tesla’s talented team. Tesla owns 19.1% Just have good research.

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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. We worked on it throughout 2022, and we’ve achieved our initial goal (with continued work ongoing in 2023 and beyond).

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Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 27, 2023

Improving L4 routing consistency at Meta Aman Sharma, Software Engineer, Meta Andrii Vasylevskyi, Software Engineer, Meta Aman Sharma and Andrii Vasylevskyi talk about the design, development, use cases, and improvements in Layer 4 load balancing by developing a tool called Shiv.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

  To succeed as a software engineer, you needed to be a jack-of-all-trades. We dabbled in network engineering, database management, and system administration. The AWS re:invent conference in 2022 hosted a good in-depth overview of Amazon’s COE process. Our deployments were initially manual.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 29, 2024

Are you looking to upgrade to a prestigious software engineer role at Apple? You might be busy enrolling for the best certifications to get for Software Engineers. However, with so much talent competing for the role, a standard Apple software engineer CV won't cut it.

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Knowledge Hut

MARCH 13, 2024

Are you a software engineer seeking new horizons? The worldwide demand for tech talent has skyrocketed, and finding the best countries for software engineers in 2024 becomes imperative. Besides this, software engineers have an 87% employment rate, meaning that the profession has a lot of leverage to be explored.

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U-Next

JUNE 30, 2022

Introduction To The Salary of a Software Engineer. As we navigate the digital world, software engineers, the creative and technical minds that build and program everything from smartphones to spacecraft, are in greater demand than ever before. What does a Software Engineer do? 5,17,000 per year (Rs.43,200

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