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I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software. Here’s What I Learned.

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. From these conversations, I learned a ton about what devs are looking for in a software website, in developer documentation, in onboarding, and even in sales interactions.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Mid-stage startups. ” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company. The people who spend their days writing software are not called software engineers. They are called product engineers. Best in class public companies (e.g.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

” I talked to a staff designer, reached out, and actually staff.design is a website with interviews with staff designers, and it’s like, what is a staff designer? And one of the areas I work in is AWS cost management, and snacking there is so easy. Infrastructure costs don’t matter at all.”

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Vishal Sunak. Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality. I got the infrastructure, I got the AWS bill, don’t worry about it. Check them out. Don’t worry about it.”

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

These types of experiences will allow you to show up strongly when it comes time for the interview because you will have examples and experiences to demonstrate your skill set. It was my seventh interview for my first leadership role. Katie Carty Tierney is an Area Vice President for the Americas at BMC Software. Asia Gladden.

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