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We had a great time this week in Denver, CO! ✨ The week was filled with insightful sessions, thought-provoking discussions, and amazing cross-team collaboration 🎉 We're looking forward to what's next!

Demand for engineering managers will increase 21% by 2028 🤯 To fill this gap on your engineering team, you’ll need to foster career growth and leadership from within. Check out the five critical soft skills that propel developers to the next level ⤵️

Happy Friday! 💫 Let's wrap up the week with a quick poll 👇

Ready to transform your leadership style? 🌟 With interactive AI role-plays, you'll master the skills you need to inspire ownership, set ambitious goals, and confidently steer your team to success. 🚀 Dive into our Leading High-Impact Engineering Teams learning path ➡️ https://bit.ly/3zpzqv7

How often do you step back to think about the importance of candidate experience in your hiring process? 🤔 Every interaction with a candidate matters more than you might realize. In fact, 83% of job seekers say a negative interview experience can completely shift their view of a role or company they were once excited about.

We’re so excited to welcome Stéphanie Durand to the team as our new VP of Strategic Partnerships! 🎉

We test more than 1,750,000 engineers every year as part of pre-hire assessments for some of the top technology and finance brands. We ran some of the most cutting-edge LLMs (including 🍓) through the same tests and found some mind-blowing insights. 1/ Our benchmarks show OpenAI’s 🍓 (o1-preview) dramatically outperforming all other AI models. However, the race between all other models is incredibly close with Claude Sonnet beating GPT4o in absolute score and GPT4o getting the upper hand in solve rate (i.e. getting to a fully working solution). 🏎️ 2/ While top AI models outperform most engineers in coding, the top 20% of engineering candidates can't be challenged even by the all-mighty o1 model! 💪 3/ AI performance improves drastically with multi-shot settings (especially for `o1-preview` and `o1-mini`), too many shots can lead to diminishing returns. The sweet spot seems to be 3-5 shots for models like 🍓 and GPT-4o. Also, some models can go off the rails when given too many shots. 💉 4/ The future of software engineering and technical assessments? Human-AI collaboration. 🤝 We’re building tools to ensure engineers are ready to co-pilot with AI, where the synergy between human intuition and AI strength will drive innovation. See comments for a link to the full research. #technology #innovation #future #artificialintelligence

Interviewing for a senior software engineering role? Your ability to lead and mentor a team will be just as important as your technical skills. Here’s what you can expect ⤵️

I just had a great learning experience with a soft skills course at CodeSignal. The majority of the course involved real-time conversations with AI. Another AI evaluated these discussions, assessing how well I applied the concepts we covered. Highly recommend trying it out! #CodeSignal #InnovativeLearning #AIEducation #SoftSkills

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