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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Software Engineering. Reads tech/programming/software engineering blogs and listens to podcasts regularly. 2 n (Level 0) n 2 (Level 1) n (Level 2) log(n) (Level 3) Comments. source code version control Folder backups by date VSS and beginning CVS/SVN user Proficient in using CVS and SVN features.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Unfortunately, in the world of software engineering, that’s a very real risk. A great platform to consider is the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Java, PHP, Python, Ruby? Tags: How To Strategy Technology business start-up tips small business smallbiz software startup. And that’s it for Part 2.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., One example I’ve seen is when someone executes an exercise in code and they forget a basic function of a list in Java, for instance, which is something you should remember as essential. office, right in the heart of MIT.

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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. I’m not saying that a software engineer candidate shouldn’t code at an interview. Java, Ruby, Python and C will be available. Far from it.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. Or, what do you do if you’re just coming out of school and all you’ve done is Java coursework? Why do I say that? Build an app, get it into the App Store.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!).