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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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Recently there’s been quite a bit of interest in SEP adding standing desks to our workspaces. Many have cited the potential benefits of standing while working. There are also suggestions that the benefits aren’t as great as they were originally advertised to be. For now, let’s remove the scientific argument until scientists can agree and we’ll […]
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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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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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Using Game Thinking to Build Products that Delight Customers
Building great products requires focusing on your users. Chris Shinkle shares how SEP is using game theory to envision products as games, and apply gaming theories about the players’ journey to SEP products. Chris shares why considering long term user engagement from discovery to mastery is critical to delighting the customer. Long Version:
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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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SEP Named a Best Places to Work in Indiana for 7th Consecutive Year
(CARMEL) — Small companies lead the way on the 2016 Best Places to Work in Indiana list, with nearly half (48) of the 100 honorees coming from that category. “The companies selected represent some of our most outstanding Hoosier employers. They embrace the idea that a positive work culture that includes respect, communication, opportunity and […]
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Why We Mentor at SEP
We started a Formal Mentorship Program in 2013 with a really simple vision statement: Become awesome(r) faster. – Raman This statement was accompanied by a graph that looks something like this: Slope of Awesomeness Right now, we have 8 new SEPeers in process (3 fresh-outs, and 5 fresh-ins), but the mentor group still has a […]
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Go for Web Development
I have published a video series on building web applications in Go called Go for Web Development. These videos will guide you through the entire process of creating a web application in Go, all the way from spinning up a basic web server to multi-user authentication. In the end, you’ll learn how to vendor dependencies […]
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