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The Tech Talent War Is Global, Cross-Industry, and a Matter of Survival

OPEXEngine

This expanding talent crunch encompasses more than just the well-documented need for data scientists, software engineers, and other technical roles (see Figure 1). As a result, the war for technology talent is getting fiercer and spreading to new fronts as demand for crucial roles skyrockets. talent platform (see Figure 3).

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How Google’s Search Engine Really Works (A Peek Under The Hood)

Neil Patel

For example, in 2010, Google’s algorithm “ might have up to 10,000 variations or sub-signals ,” according to Search Engine Land. You Googled “software engineer jobs” last week. So now Google knows what type of “engineer salaries” to show you, even though you never explicitly asked for “software engineer salaries.”.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. million apiece.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When Patrick and John in 2010 were at Y Combinator and spend their days doing office hours with the whole Y Combinator and a little water in the valley. In the world where tech talent is so hard to find and to recruit, what are your software engineers spending their time on? This is kind of the founding story of Stripe.

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How to Bottle Community Lightning Like Datadog

OpenView Labs

Datadog was founded back in 2010 on the idea that operations teams and developers needed a common language. According to one open source software engineer who moved from Datadog customer to employee, the company’s open source commitment was key to his interest.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Exactly 10 years ago today—May 10, 2010—I slinked through office doors that opened to my first day of work at a “real job.” Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Boomi is a cloud integration company that I worked on and built for 10 years and was acquired by Dell in 2010. It is very different than traditional software engineering. Rick : Guru was born out of a pain I personally lived at my last startup, Boomi, which I started back in 2000. It is very hard to do. How did we learn it?

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