A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers. Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a ...

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In summer 2025, Fernando Picoral (CompSci'26) wrapped up his third internship at Google, where he learned that great engineering is as much about “designing for others” as it is about writing code.

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Conventional wisdom holds that MIT, Cal Tech, and Stanford are three of the country's best undergraduate engineering schools. Unfortunately, when conventional wisdom visits the topic of best ...

Vibhas Zanpure is an Engineering Leader at Amazon, with over 13 years of industry experience in massively scalable distributed systems. Early in my career as an engineer, I was obsessed with clean ...

When Nate Anderson from Minneapolis, Minn. was making his college decision, he was looking for two things: a smaller private Christian university and a great engineering program. “There are a lot of ...

You don't have to be an engineer to have an opinion about engineering. Husbands, wives, friends, and neighbors of engineers all form their own ideas about the profession, and about the people who do ...