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Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers?

The Pragmatic Engineer

When I think back on the software engineers I looked up to, they all shared this trait where they never took anything at face value. Improving your critical thinking muscle The software engineers I looked up to, who always challenged when they did not understand something: they were all, without exception, critical thinkers.

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Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders

The Pragmatic Engineer

I get asked every now and then if I offer 1:1 mentoring for either software engineers or engineering managers or leaders. I collected much of the advice I have to offer for software engineers in The Software Engineer's Guidebook.

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

The Pragmatic Engineer

There’s plenty of news and anecdotal evidence suggesting the jobs market for software engineers is cooling. But what about “hard” data on trends in software engineer hiring? The vast majority of posts are related to software engineering. To get full issues twice a week, subscribe here.

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Conversation with Sumeet, Software Engineer at Natwest Group

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Join us in this interview as Sumeet shares his background, journey as a former Data Scientist to a software engineer, and learn the captivating aspects of his current job. He provides insights into the future of data science and software engineering and offers valuable advice for career transitioners.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.

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Inside Pollen's Software Engineering Salaries

The Pragmatic Engineer

Here are a few details from the data points, focusing on software engineering compensation. Source: The Pragmatic Engineer blog. Software engineering compensation numbers I collected software engineering-related compensation numbers, grouping them for easier browsing.

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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did

The Pragmatic Engineer

The below topic was sent out to full subscribers of The Pragmatic Engineer , three weeks ago, in The Pulse #66. I have received several messages from people asking if they can pay to “unlock” this information for others, given how vital it is for software engineers. It seems a bit fishy.”

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.