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What Actually Gets Engineers Hired, From a CTO Who Measures It

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Who should software engineers marry? Not another software engineer, apparently.

Samir Ranjan is the CTO and Director of Data Science at Catenate, where he built a patented platform that measures soft skills and personality to predict career outcomes. Translation: he has receipts on what actually gets engineers hired, promoted, and passed over.

We get into:

  • The 2 traits that separate good engineers from average ones (spoiler: it's not knowing every tool)
  • Why "learning ability" beats technical knowledge in the AI era
  • The age group struggling most with AI adoption (it's not who you think)
  • What the data really says about junior devs getting replaced
  • The new job roles coming by 2027: AI orchestrators and agent managers
  • Why engineers should learn an art form (seriously)
  • His weirdly practical advice for introverts: dress up and go to Target
  • Who software engineers should actually marry


Samir went from mining engineering a thousand feet underground to building AI career tools. If you're trying to make sense of a chaotic job market, this one's full of stuff you can actually use.

Connect with Samir on LinkedIn and check out Catenate.

Connect with me:

  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjenney
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@brianjenney

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