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How We Connect Our Engineers Directly To Buffer Customers with Customer Engineering Days

Buffer Social

While connecting the team to our customers has always been a priority for us at Buffer, how the team has connected with customers has changed quite a bit over the years. During these sessions, our Customer Advocates would provide support for the entire Buffer team as they answered customer emails.

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

Sprout Social

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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An Honest Look into our Engineering Team Engagement Survey

Buffer Social

It’s been a busy season for our engineering, product, and design teams at Buffer — what we collectively refer to as EPD. A few key takeaways: Engineering teammates have very distinct and differing needs depending on their tenure at Buffer (6+ years, 2-6 years, less than 2 years). That’s a lot of change.

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10 AI marketing tools your team should be using in 2023

Sprout Social

Companies are investing in these tools to get more out of their efforts. According to our 2023 State of Social Media Report , 97% of business leaders agree that AI and machine learning (ML) will enable companies to analyze social media data and insights more effectively and use it to improve their overall marketing efforts.

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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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Annual Social Media Budget Planning For Companies And Bloggers

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Whether you work for a Fortune 100 company or a blogger who relies on revenue from your content to supplement your income, it’s important to think about what goes into your social media headcount. How big your marketing or social media team is will define how many licenses, tools, and headcount you need to secure funding for.

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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.