The Pulse

Keeping a pulse on the software engineering industry, every Thursday. Insights, patterns and trends within Big Tech and startups. Exclusive analysis of what is happening, and why.

The Pulse #146: How AI is changing tech interviews

Big Tech interviewers using tougher interview questions, while startups drop algorithmic questions and takehomes. Also: new trend of devs vibe coding…

Sep 18 •

The Pulse #145: More clarity on the tech jobs market

Also: Google lawsuit win, OpenAI buys two startups, LLMs deleting stuff in prod, and more

Sep 4 •

The Pulse #144: Rare look into AWS’s PR/FAQ process

Also: ChatGPT is potentially more efficient than 95% of in-house GenAI projects, Google cuts TLM positions, and more.

Aug 28 •

The Pulse #143: Creative ways to fund open source projects

Also: Microsoft’s US compensation bands leaked, Tailwind CSS team gets burnt using Claude Code, Meta and OpenAI in talent & comp war, and more

Aug 21 •

The Pulse #142: Crazy-hours culture at AI startups

Also: Figma’s in-demand IPO could mark the end of the “tech IPO winter”, Amazon’s spec-driven development approach with Kiro, and more

Aug 14 •

The Pulse #141: Replit AI secretly deletes prod – oops!

Also: mystery solved about dozens of outages on 10 June, reflections on a year at OpenAI, and more

Jul 24 •

The Pulse #140: Does Cursor make developers less effective?

Also: the complicated story of the Windsurf sale, beginning of the end for VC-subsidized tokens, and more.

Jul 17 •

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