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Career Hacks for Software Engineers

Career Hacks for Software Engineers

How people in the technology industry can get paid better and get their dream job by learning from my career mistakes.
Presented at The University of Edinburgh Artificial Intelligence and Computing Society and TechMeetup Edinburgh in 2014.

Mike McQuaid

March 26, 2014
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  1. career ! “an occupation undertaken for a significant period of

    a person's life and with opportunities for progress”
  2. hack ! “a strategy or technique adopted in order to

    manage one's time and daily activities in a more efficient way”
  3. Fail? ! Stay in Edinburgh forever? Write a book? Make

    drastic changes to a popular open-source project?
  4. Win? ! Stay in Edinburgh forever? Write a book? Make

    drastic changes to a popular open-source project?