The Pragmatic Engineer

The Pragmatic Engineer

Home
Podcast
The Pulse
Deepdives
Announcements
Archive
About

Industry trends

The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3
Which tools do software engineers use for observability, oncall tooling, feature flags, frontend & mobile work, and for developer tooling? Results from…
 • 
Gergely Orosz
 and 
Elin Nilsson
4
The Pulse #149: New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents
Also: the ACP protocol, AI security tooling, comparing interview experiences across 8 tech companies, and more
 • 
Gergely Orosz
6
State of the software engineering jobs market, 2025: what hiring managers see
Observations by 30+ hiring managers and tech recruiters about what’s happening: a flood of inbound applications means more selective hiring, there’s…
 • 
Gergely Orosz
19
How Claude Code is built
A rare look into how the new, popular dev tool is built, and what it might mean for the future of software building with AI. Exclusive.
 • 
Gergely Orosz
14
The Pulse #146: How AI is changing tech interviews
Big Tech interviewers using tougher interview questions, while startups drop algorithmic questions and takehomes. Also: new trend of devs vibe coding…
 • 
Gergely Orosz
10
How tech companies measure the impact of AI on software development
How do GitHub, Google, Dropbox, Monzo, Atlassian, and 13 other companies know how well AI tools work for devs? A deepdive sharing exclusive details…
 • 
Gergely Orosz
 and 
Laura Tacho
6
State of the software engineering job market in 2025: what the data says
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location…
 • 
Gergely Orosz
8
The Pulse #144: Rare look into AWS’s PR/FAQ process
Also: ChatGPT is potentially more efficient than 95% of in-house GenAI projects, Google cuts TLM positions, and more.
 • 
Gergely Orosz
3
The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 2
Which tools do software engineers use for project management, communication and collaboration, databases and backend infrastructure? Reader survey with…
 • 
Gergely Orosz
 and 
Elin Nilsson
6
The Pulse #142: Crazy-hours culture at AI startups
Also: Figma’s in-demand IPO could mark the end of the “tech IPO winter”, Amazon’s spec-driven development approach with Kiro, and more
 • 
Gergely Orosz
10
What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?
Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so…
 • 
Gergely Orosz
5
The state of VC within software and AI startups – with Peter Walker
How are VC funding, hiring, and founder trends shifting—and what does it mean for software engineers at startups? Extensive data discussed with Peter…
 • 
Gergely Orosz
1
1:19:37
© 2025 Gergely Orosz
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture