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AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem
A full-remote security startup nearly hired a backend engineer who doesn’t exist, after a candidate used an AI filter as an on-screen disguise in video…
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #126: Startup asks for a lot, offers little → struggles to hire
Also: Cloufflare’s self-critical, transparent postmortem, additional signs of Big Tech becoming more cutthroat, and more.
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Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India
Deepdive into the distribution of software engineering compensation, based on more than 20,000 data points from Levels.fyi
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The Pulse #125: swarm of AI coding tool launches
Anthropic, GitHub, and Google launch new AI coding tools for devs, DeepSeek bucks expectations by triggering higher GPU demand, VC funding down with AI…
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State of the startup and scaleup hiring markets – as seen by recruiters
More startups and scaleups are hiring engineers and engineering leaders. Advice for tech professionals on how to get noticed by specialist recruitment…
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The Pulse #124: Software engineering job openings at five-year low?
Data from Indeed shows software developer job openings have seen the biggest decline in five years across the US. What’s the cause, and what’s next…
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Is Big Tech becoming more cutthroat?
Is it the end of a golden age of Big Tech, when jobs at leading companies offered high-impact work, top compensation, and good work-life balance? More…
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The Pulse #122: DeepSeek rocks the tech industry
Almost unknown Chinese lab releases AI model that’s open, free, and as good as ChatGPT’s best models. Oh, and it’s also cheaper to operate. This has…
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The Pulse #120: What does Salesforce’s software engineering hiring freeze mean?
Also: how an hour-long GitHub outage is a reminder of the real cost of reliability, what Cloudflare’s recruiting statistics say about the job market…
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The Pulse #119: Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?
Also: Apple fires staff over fake charities scam, AI models just keep improving, a middle manager burnout possibly on the horizon, and more.
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How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths
A field guide that also covers why we need to rethink our expectations, and what software engineering really is. A guest post by software engineer and…
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Addy Osmani
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The Pulse #118: OpenAI shows why it’s the AI leader
Also: Devin doubles down on “AI software engineer” branding, court orders Automattic to undo unethical actions against WP Engine, and a possible middle…
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