Developers lack practical, hands-on opportunities to practice software engineering skills in real-world scenarios

Signals over time

2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 6 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “This is why I have always advocated for getting my software engineers away from code occasionally and out into the field into whatever domain in which we're working. We need to experience and see how the world actually works, the pain people are actually experiencing. I deeply believe we build better software that way. Have a software engineer working for a mining company that's a good candidate to drag out into the field for a bit? Get 'em out there, encourage them to ask tons of questions. Real example: my wife is a nurse who works for an insurance company to coordinate care for injured workers to help maximize their recoveries. I hear a ton about the stuff she has to do, and just having her tell me about how things work has given me a glut of ideas of how I could help her bypass all the administrivia so she can focus on helping the folks she's really passionate about helping. Wouldn't have had any idea about any of this, otherwise. Unfortunately for her, I don't work for her company so can do nothing about it, but the ideas!”

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• “Hi HN, I'm Shashank. I have curated 1000s of practical real world software engineering assessments in the past as part of my job. I felt there's a gap where if a person wants to learn to build software they have many options to learn from (learning platforms and free resources) but very few or no options to practice their skills hands on. I built Staffcoder so that developers can learn the skills while solving real world scenarios across various domains in software engineering. On Staffcoder you can select a skill, start from beginner level and move up solving real world challenges. All this within the browser tab without needing to install anything locally. Moreover we're giving AI assistant to help solve and AI agent in the IDE for agentic development skills. There are 1000+ challenges across 40 skills, covering frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps, data, and AI engineering. We offer skills like React, Angular, Django, .NET, Springboot, Redis, Kafka, Git, Kubernetes, Docker just to name a few. You can see the skills here https://www.staffcoder.com/paths We also plan to launch Practice and Compete sections for experienced users once we have some traction”

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