Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2016

Rather than paying thousands in tuition or fees, qualified individuals can get their foot in the door to a tech career while earning a salary from their very first day. They work with senior developers to gain coding experience on real client projects under careful guidance and supervision while earning a livable salary.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Rigid union contracts constrain salaries, work schedules and promotions.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

So began Developer Boot Camp. The initial class, taught mostly by Bishay and a group of volunteers, produced 21 students, 15 of whom got job offers (with an average starting salary of $79,000) as developers at the end of the program. Bishay also wants to dispel the myth that software engineers are some type of super people. “I

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Compensation is probably between $0 and a ramen salary. This is an area that varies widely and can significantly impact how much equity a technical cofounder receives (if they take more salary). 6a] Salary upon funding -0%: No extra equity for getting a salary upon funding. Especially a company based on your vision.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. at 12:41 pm Rob, just a hypothetical question here: what if there were the equivalent to the iPhone app store for server software? Except for one thing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Whereas, taking the job at X company, advancing to Y position, attaining Z salary, didn't feel natural. And what I think you heard in that, like "I accidentally created a software development competition," is actually not quite right. Software development. I think that one of Irma's real gifts is that.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. The best people are either getting offers from or already working for, an 800-pound gorilla that won’t even notice a salary that might break your bank. Hiring local talent will force you to pay more than you can afford.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. It is clear that good software engineers avoid you.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.

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