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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…
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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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SEP Celebrates Employee Ownership Month
This October, SEP along with the ESOP Association and the employee ownership community, will be celebrating Employee Ownership Month, which is a tribute to the incredible spirit of employee ownership. Employee Ownership Month is an opportunity for ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) companies across the U.S. to educate employee owners and the public about the […]
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SEP Ranks as the 6th Best Place to Work in Indiana for Medium-Sized Businesses
May 1, 2014 (INDIANAPOLIS) — Companies setting the standard with their workplace practices were honored May 1st before a crowd of more than 1,200 at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis. There, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce unveiled rankings for the record-tying 100 companies from throughout the state that made the 2014 Best Places […]
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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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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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SEP Walks for a Cure
“We make monetary donations to JDRF each year, but it feels a bit impersonal,” begins Engineering Vice President Raman Ohri. “I want SEP to feel personally connected to the causes we support.” It’s a personal cause for Ohri, who captained the SEP’s team that participated in last Saturday’s JDRF Walk to a Cure. “My wife […]
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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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My Summer Experience at SEP Thus Far
Austin Hunkin is a Business Intern and a student at Indiana University studying Finance at the Kelley School of Business. Why SEP? I asked myself that question when I interviewed with the company in April. I knew they were a successful, private software engineering company in the heart of Carmel, but I knew nothing of […]
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3 Hard Steps on How to Fail (you probably can’t do them)
I have many friends who cannot help but win. Everything they do seems to blossom, and sometimes I wonder if they might not be descended from King Midas in some ethereal way. Here’s how to prevent yourself from being another victim of Pervasive Success™. 1. Avoid things you’re good at Being good at something takes […]
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