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In this industry (industries) and this global culture, it is just impossible to find someone with integrity, intelligence, discipline, and rigor. I consistently find Orosz to be one of the few, and he has insights and visibility into the tech workplace, tech corporations, and tech operations that I am not aware of anyone else matching (and publishing).

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Gergely Orosz has built an absolutely amazing resource for the software engineering industry, The Pragmatic Engineer. I believe that if you are a senior+ level engineer, this is one of the most invaluable resources you can have, and is worth every penny.

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Really enjoying @GergelyOrosz’s Pragmatic Engineer newsletter.

There’s of tech content on strategy, fundraising, and CEOs’ thoughts on Chesa Boudin but very little about operating in the techno-bureaucracies that make the world go round.

It’s an important gap to fill!

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I consider the insights that you share in your newsletter as a map for the maze of software engineering careers. Any “pragmatic engineer” should have it in order to avoid wasting time in that maze ! Thank you !

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The Pragmatic Engineer is one of the few engineering management publications that I reference routinely. If you’re an engineering leader and not yet subscribed, try it out for a month. There’s a list of all the past year’s articles in the post below.

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I do! I don’t comment much on Twitter about your newsletter, but thank you for taking the time to put them out there. So much great info in them. Keep up the great work!

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Nice Gergely! The Pragmatic Engineer is one of the rare newsletter I gladly pay for. The information is super valuable for engineering managers and to understand better the tech industry in general.👍

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After years of following his tweets and nodding along, finally became a paid @GergelyOrosz newsletter subscriber and it’s very good. Here’s a snippet on coming into a new team’s engineering culture. (btw he did not pay me to write this tweet and don’t sleep on it)

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