Software Engineering

“Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.”

“Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.”

“How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean.”

“To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.”

“Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.”

“In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.”

“By combining cutting-edge hardware engineering of computer chips that can perform billions of operations per second, with state-of-the-art software engineering that applies the newest data processing techniques on the world's most powerful servers, American farmers are among the most efficient and productive in the world.”

“Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.”

“Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.”

“In our firm's earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.”