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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…

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Study Groups – Learning Together is Better

As I’ve mentioned before, professional development is a big deal at SEP. I love learning with other people. We’ve recently kicked off a new way (for us) to learn with other people: Study Groups. What are Study Groups The idea is to go through an online course, class, book series, or other structured or self-directed […]

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Professional Development at SEP

You’re always behind the curve. You can never catch up. There is no leading, you’re always chasing. That is what it feels like as a software engineer these days. Technology is moving at breakneck speed. Five new React competitors came out this morning. Rails is old; Elm is new. Elm!? Back in my day that […]

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Starting Full-Time At A Place That Is Hard To Define

I knew I could grow there—fast. That’s how I respond when asked why I chose to work for SEP. Subsequently, my co-workers later told me they felt they ‘just knew’ I was a fit for this culture and the work we do here when I asked them why I was chosen. Knowing which job to […]

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An SEP History Lesson: When an Enthusiastic Newbie Convinced Us to Get a Fishtank

I’ve had several people tell me they liked the new fishtank design (thank you!), and it was suggested that I do a write-up about the tank. I’m always happy to talk about it! I’ll start with some history… How it Began It all started around 10 years ago. I was interviewing for a position at SEP, […]

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ESOPs – Why They Work

October is employee ownership month and we’re celebrating our ownership throughout the month here at SEP. When we became in an ESOP in 2010, I didn’t quite know what this would do to our culture. We were already a pretty unique company that did great things for our employees, but would it change us? As […]

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Be a Summer Software Engineering or Business Intern at SEP!

Smart. Fit. Get things done. Each describes characteristics SEP explores with potential candidates when hiring, even with interns. “When looking for interns, we look for the same qualities we do with a full-time hire,” explains Project Manager and Recruiting Team Member Kyle Pinches. The interview process focuses not only on in-class performance. “We want to […]

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SEP Selected as 2014 Best Places to Work in Indiana Finalist

For the fifth year in a row, SEP has been named by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce as one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana. The honorees list boasts 100 companies as more applicants than ever before participated in the voting process. This is the 9th year for the Best Places to Work […]

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Hello World: Do Something!

As I kickoff 2014, I’m declaring my mantra for the year to be “Do Something”! This all starts with my first blog post. It’s my job to encourage SEPeers to blog and it’s my job to make sure it happens – yet I don’t blog. I know, it is wrong, so that’s why I’m doing […]

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Beware of Solving Things Yourself

There’s one recurring thing I’ve seen new hires at SEP struggle with over the years. Most commonly, this is something we see in hires that are fresh out of college, but sometimes it shows itself in hires that come to us with years of experience in the industry. While we try to eliminate it in our new […]

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