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Vulnerability in the workplace: A career differentiator for women in software engineering

Sprout Social

But when I entered the professional engineering world, I was surprised at how difficult it was to be open, authentic and vulnerable, and the sweeping difference that culture and representation could make. Starting my career as a woman in software engineering. Sprout Social’s engineering culture.

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Lessons learned as an entry-level software engineer

Sprout Social

If you asked me a year ago what a software engineer did, I would have said something along the lines of “solving problems through code.” For engineers on product-driven teams, these problems could include how to implement a new feature that customers have been asking for , or how to improve the performance of existing features.

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How We’ve Changed Our Engineering Mindset to Become Builders Again

Buffer Social

I've been working at Buffer since 2014, and even before I joined, I was always impressed by the Buffer team's product and engineering culture: how quick they shipped improvements and how close everyone was to the users (not uncommon to see engineers responding to comments on Twitter!).

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Navigating an Engineering Internship During Unusual Times

Pixlee

This meant that we would be meeting Pablo, Pixlee’s Director of Engineering, for the first time at the airport. Every Day Matters as a Software Engineering Intern. The day of a software engineering intern seemed more or less the same as that of a full-time engineer at Pixlee, which gave us a lot of room to learn.

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How to supercharge your marketing strategy with AI automation

Sprout Social

It also reduces the risk of miscalculations common when analyzing complex data manually for patterns and trends. Similarly, AI automation identifies financial and legal fraud by scanning outliers in data patterns to support compliance.

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Summer Engineering Internships at Sprout

Sprout Social

What’s it like to spend the summer as an intern on Sprout Social’s engineering team? From day one, engineering interns at Sprout are part of the team. Interns are also matched with a mentor, typically a senior engineer, with expertise in their areas of interests. Megan, a student at Washington University in St.

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Search Engine Optimization with SEOette.com: Track Your Google Rankings

Bill Hartzer

We all want to track our Google search engine rankings. There are lots of search engine optimization tools out there that will help you perform search engine ranking checks. But there is one in particular that looks very promising, called SEOette. Once your campaign is created, it’s pretty self-explanatory to get around.