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

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's shipped this stuff at scale. Spots are capped at 10 per cohort: https://parsity.io/ai-dev

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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