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Software Engineer Shares 3 Top Tips for Landing Big Tech Roles

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jay Jung, 28, a software engineer from San Francisco, about landing jobs in Big Tech. The following has been edited for length and clarity.During college, I found it hard to get internships.Since then, I’ve built my career as a software…

How I Landed a Software Engineering Job at Slack Without a Degree

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeremiah Peoples, a 28-year-old staff developer advocate at Slack in Austin. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I work in software engineering as a staff developer advocate without a college degree. After my first semester in Butler University’s computer science program,…

AI Coding Tools Upend the ‘Buy Versus Build’ Software Equation

The enterprise software landscape is being quietly, yet profoundly, disrupted by the rise of AI coding tools such as Bolt, Replit, and Cursor.These services are upending one of the most fundamental technology decisions companies make: whether to buy software from external SaaS vendors or build it in-house. This once-clear distinction…