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

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? How do we fix it?”

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Calling future software engineers: Learn about UL’s equity, diversity and inclusion scholarship, funded by Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

We’re excited to sponsor a new equity, diversity, and inclusion scholarship for students of the University of Limerick’s Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) course – valued at €10,000. Software engineering will play a crucial role in the future of business, society, and even our planet. Investing in education.

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How To Build A High-Performing Team And Retain Top Talent with Snowflake Global Director of Market Intelligence Guan Wang (Video)

SaaStr

As someone who grew Snowflake by 300% in the previous two years with a 0% turnover, you’ll want to hear his tactical strategies for those in leadership roles. . In the kickoff for Workshop Wednesdays last week, Wang chatted with the community about how to build a high-performing team and keep it. Stage 3: Employee Development.

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5 Stats That Prove Ignoring Remote Work is a Business Failure

SaaStr

If you told me there was an employment strategy that would improve my company’s employee retention, hiring, and productivity — yet I ignored it — I bet you’d question my leadership. . The same could be true for a software engineer at her home office at 9:00 pm at night. . It’s simply not true anymore.

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Edmond Lau and Jean Hsu on engineering more leaders and better working relationships

Intercom, Inc.

Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case. They’ve now started a company together, Co Leadership , to help pave the road for engineers to become leaders.

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Who is Ant Murphy? Background, Newsletter, Podcasts, and More

User Pilot

After graduation, he worked as a software engineer for around 3 years at different companies such as IMC Pacific and Macquarie Group. Following his brief career as a software engineer, he transitioned into a Business Analyst and worked in this role at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and then the Australian Securities Exchange.

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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. He willed Instacart into a market leadership role with the help of his early executive team, including Nilam Ganenthiran, Ravi Gupta, Sagar Sanghvi, and many others who contributed enormously over the years.