I’m a 38-year-old software engineer making $200K a year. I grew my salary by moving to the US and plan to retire soon in Mexico.
Carlos Santana Roldán is a 38-year-old software engineer living in California.Business Insider has verified…
I dropped out of college and now earn $159,000 as a software engineer. Lifestyle creep left me $30,000 in debt.
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The engineer who became Anthropic’s political secret weapon
When Anthropic found itself in a high-stakes standoff with the White House over its…
I’m a senior principal engineer. I use AI at work, but some tasks you should do from scratch — here’s how I decide.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brandon Pedersen, a 41-year-old senior…
Software engineering legend Kent Beck says coders need to learn people skills to survive AI
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A veteran chief engineer building a flying taxi shared the one piece of advice he’d give his 25-year-old self
David King is the chief engineer at Vertical Aerospace, a British company developing an…
I left my job as a software engineer to be a baker. I joke that I threw my master’s down the drain, but my choice has paid off.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sabrina Lim, a 28-year-old former…
A DeepSeek engineer’s viral post on talent, power, and humanity is a rare snapshot of work at China’s frontier AI labs
A DeepSeek engineer who helped write a key component of the company's latest model…
I moved to the US from Pakistan for college. Here’s how I landed a job at Google — and why AI doesn’t worry me.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aimen Moten, who has worked…
I’m a KPMG forward-deployed engineer. AI has moved my job beyond writing code.
This is a conversation with Justin Johnsen, the lead technical architect at KPMG.This conversation…
I was a software engineer who couldn’t get excited about AI. Now I’m studying to be a nurse.
This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with 33-year-old Cristina Estupiñán of New Providence,…
An engineer’s viral post captures the soul-crushing downside of AI coding
A software engineer's viral post about AI coding has set off a debate over…
A Meta software engineer shares what it takes to keep up with AI — without letting it think for him
For Meta software engineer Rohan Kulkarni, keeping up with AI no longer ends when…
A former distinguished Meta engineer says promotions eventually stopped feeling like wins, so he sought a demotion
A top engineer for Big Tech asked for a demotion at the peak of…
A Google engineer made $1.2 million by insider trading on Polymarket under the name ‘AlphaRaccoon’: DOJ
The DOJ said a Google software engineer made $1.2 million from insider trading on…
I’m a Microsoft software engineer. AI makes hitting my deadlines much easier, but I’m still skeptical it will replace me.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rahul Devikar, a 34-year-old senior…
