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

<p><em>Learn to build AI systems that companies actually pay for: RAG, agents, production LLM apps. Not YouTube tutorial toys. Real projects with a dedicated mentor who&#39;s shipped this stuff at scale. Spots are capped at 10 per cohort: </em><a href="https://parsity.io/ai-dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><em>https://parsity.io/ai-dev</em></a><em></em></p><p>Who should software engineers marry? Not another software engineer, apparently.</p><p>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.</p><p>We get into:</p><ul><li>The 2 traits that separate good engineers from average ones (spoiler: it&#39;s not knowing every tool)</li><li>Why &quot;learning ability&quot; beats technical knowledge in the AI era</li><li>The age group struggling most with AI adoption (it&#39;s not who you think)</li><li>What the data really says about junior devs getting replaced</li><li>The new job roles coming by 2027: AI orchestrators and agent managers</li><li>Why engineers should learn an art form (seriously)</li><li>His weirdly practical advice for introverts: dress up and go to Target</li><li>Who software engineers should actually marry</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Samir went from mining engineering a thousand feet underground to building AI career tools. If you&#39;re trying to make sense of a chaotic job market, this one&#39;s full of stuff you can actually use.</p><p><a href="linkedin.com/in/sameerranjan009" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Connect with Samir on LinkedIn and check out Catenate.</a></p><p>Connect with me:</p><ul><li>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjenney</li><li>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@brianjenney</li></ul>