The tech industry is contracting. Meta is cutting 10% of headcount. Shopify just announced a 10% reduction. Snap, Stripe, Amazon, and others are following suit, with layoffs rippling through startups …
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The new manager sits across from you in the first one-on-one, asking good questions and taking notes. You want to feel optimistic. Instead, you’re wondering if they actually understand what your …
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The CHIPS Act Is Coming. Your Career Probably Should Too. Congress is moving fast on something that doesn’t usually get much attention outside of tech policy circles: the CHIPS and Science Act. …
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Right now, in May 2022, you have power in the job market that you might not have felt in years. The IT hiring season is running at full speed, remote work is finally normalized, and companies are …
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Two years ago, if someone told you that you’d be interviewing for six-figure roles entirely over Zoom from your home office, you might have laughed. Today, that’s just the job market. The …
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Three months have passed since Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 exploded across the internet, and the industry is still sorting through the wreckage. On December 9, 2021, security researchers disclosed a …
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If you’ve been in IT long enough to remember when a technical position meant at least some job security, then you already know the tables have turned completely. The Bureau of Labor Statistics …
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It’s hard to summarize 2021 in a single phrase, but “the Great Resignation” comes closer than most. We watched a tidal shift in how IT professionals think about their work, their …
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The private sector tech job market rewards velocity. Move fast, ship features, disrupt the space, jump between startups chasing the next funding round. It’s exhilarating for some and exhausting …
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The question arrives on everyone’s desk at some point in an IT career: should you go deep or go wide? Should you spend the next five years becoming the cloud architect everyone calls when AWS is …
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