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SEP Selected as a Nominee for TechPoint’s Innovation Mira Award
TechPoint has announced the nominees for its 25th annual Mira Awards, highlighting the most innovative companies, universities, and organizations in Indiana’s tech sector. The awards celebrate achievements across various categories, including the Innovation Partner of the Year. Nominees in this…
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I like to think that after 5 internships, I hold a few records at SEP. For instance, I have had more first-days at SEP than anyone else, and consequently I have had the most exit-interviews as well. I am the resident expert on New Hire Cookouts and receive more E-bucks every year than a full-time […]
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Meet the 2016 SEP Interns
Jessica Vaughn Software Engineering Intern School: IUPUI Major: Informatics Project: Web-based Management System for Construction Equipment “I chose SEP because of the opportunities as well as the culture. SEP cares about its employees and wants them to grow and learn and feel comfortable. There are also a variety of projects, which means lots of different technologies […]
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Leveling-up Our Intern Program – With Self-Selection
With our guiding purpose of “making it easier to hire full-time engineers”, we chose to try out a self-selection process for our intern program. As I mentioned in my post about our intern program, we are expecting 7 interns for this summer. For 2016 we decided to level up our intern program with self-selection. Why Self-Selection? We believe […]
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Leveling-up Our Intern Program – With Purpose
Over the last few years we have been making incremental changes to level-up our intern program. For previous summers we have solidified the purpose of our internship program…we have defined the outcomes we want to see from our program…and we have collected some goals that we want to shoot for while our interns are with […]
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A Few Words About the SEP 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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Software Producer: What’s in a name?
SEP had an interesting time establishing the title of Software Producer. We wanted it to mean something, like “Software Engineering Professionals” is not just our name; it’s who we are. Not a Product Manager When looking into the activities that our Software Producer perform, there is a lot of overlap with a Product Manager. That title is […]
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Meet the Software Producer
It isn’t every day that a new title is introduced around here. And I get to have the fun of helping define it, because I’m one of the few on the block with that new title: Software Producer. Why do we need a new title? SEP grew out of an engineering focus from its inception. Do the […]
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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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BoilerMake: A Weekend of Hacks, Hackers, and Dodgeball or a New-aged Career Fair?
I went to my first university-based hackathon: BoilerMake. A hackathon is straight forward, but BoilerMake was no simple hackathon. Students from across the country came together to build something/anything in one weekend. Projects ranged from modifying household electronics (microwaves that can respond to text messages, and robotic vacuum cleaners that can lay dominoes in a pattern), […]
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