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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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Women in engineering: How I found and started my career as a software engineer

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I made it through with top grades and decided that from then on, I wanted to make sure women in engineering would not have the same experience as me. I started to get more involved in outreach programs and activities that allowed me to connect with other women in engineering. Finding Sprout Social. Starting a Business Resource Group.

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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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Meet Team Sprout: Shweta, Senior Software Engineer

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She has a knack for taking complicated data ideas and translating them in a way that her audience can understand, whether that is another engineer or a less tech-savvy person, such as myself. Name: Shweta Kapur Department: Engineering Started at Sprout: February 2017. I’m a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Ingest squad.

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Meet The Macedonian Software Engineer Fighting Air Pollution With An App

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But a Macedonian software engineer is hoping to make vital environmental change- with an app. Macedonia’s Tetovo and Skopje lay unenviable claim to being Europe's two most polluted cities in 2018.

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Software engineering personalities: the Teslas and the Edisons

Sprout Social

While reading up on these two individuals, it struck us at Sprout Social that these two working styles can teach us how to build a healthy engineering culture consisting of Edisons and Teslas. We’ve found many software engineers, regardless of background, fall into one of the two personality profiles.

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Learn How To Develop Custom Software Fast From Scratch

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There are several steps to learn how to develop enterprise custom software applications from scratch. Bespoke software development is the processes of analyzing business needs, brainstorming possible solutions, and developing custom technology to address pain points. Frame The Entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).