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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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Looking Back on the Summer 2017 Intern Experience

As the summer wraps up and our summer interns are returning to school, we’ve asked them to reflect on their experiences this summer. Here’s what they have to say: Adam Tapper: “My summer at SEP was an unforgettable experience. I really enjoyed getting to work in an atmosphere that was fun and professional; the people […]
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Meet the 2017 SEP Interns

  Elliot Yesmunt Software Engineering Intern School: IUPUI Major: Computer Science Project: Web-based suite of management tools “I really enjoy the teamwork here. It’s easy to get stuck on single problems for long periods of time when working by yourself in software. With a team, pair-programming and mob-programming can significantly cut down on the amount […]
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SEP Named Best Places to Work Hall of Fame Company

They come from throughout the state and across 25 industries. They are the 100 honorees on the 2017 Best Places to Work in Indiana list. In this week’s announcement, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce said that nearly half (49) of the winners are from the small employer category and almost a third (32) are first-time […]
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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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The Intern Perspective

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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DevOps Guild

Although the term DevOps is fairly new to most of us I believe the culture at SEP and the practices we follow embrace DevOps, but we have not taken credit for it yet. This group will seek to deepen our understanding, technical practices, and help define strategy around DevOps for SEP. Mapping Last week we […]
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SEP Book Review of Who Moved My Cheese

SEP Book Classics

SEP Book Classics – What’s that? Well, good question. SEP Book Classics started from a discussion in an Appreticeship Patterns book club at SEP. Our group was discussing how to help new members to the company gain a shared language/knowledge of many of the books that we’ve read at SEP. The problem then, was to […]
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