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Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?

SaaStr

"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI." In general, I find most start-ups want to keep engineering comp fairly flat. But it has created a two-tiered comp system for engineers.

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Gordian Knots in Software Engineering

Tom Tunguz

Measuring engineering productivity is a Gordian knot. How does a manager measure the performance of an engineer? LinkedIn selected three metrics for most engineers & they all revolve around speed. Lines of code or number of commits focus on components of the engineering process. Great code is succinct & clear.

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The Convergence of Data & Software Engineering in the Age of AI

Tom Tunguz

The patois of data teams has become a dialect of modern engineering teams because the commonalities in the stack. Data teams receive tickets from their internal customers & develop data products that serve both internal & external users, much like a classic product management & engineering team.

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How to prepare for software engineering interview questions

Intercom, Inc.

Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. General software engineering interview questions. Questions about your background.

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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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Building “Minicom”: How our engineering interviews illustrate our values

Intercom, Inc.

The engineering interview presents a unique opportunity to showcase your company’s engineering culture and values to potential new hires. It struck me that most of these interviews were so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. At Intercom, the interview process is different. We teach what we preach.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower SaaS

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.