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☆ 10 Things in Tech: Best side hustles, Tesla Roadsters, and ChatGPT stylist
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

After just a few short years of hype, the metaverse is already headed for the graveyard of failed tech ideas. The metaverse, according to Zuckerberg, was supposed to be the next evolution of the internet and our tech lives. But the rise and fall of the metaverse can teach us some important lessons about the tech industry as a whole. All the tech companies citing AI in their layoff announcements. Many major tech companies like Google and IBM even mentioned AI in their layoff announcements.

☆ A senior software engineer dies after falling from the 14th floor of Google's NYC headquarters
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A software engineer died after falling from the 14th floor of Google's headquarters, NYPD confirmed. Police responded to a 911 call on Thursday reporting an unconscious person lying on the ground. The 31-year-old senior software engineer's name is being withheld pending family notification. A 31-year-old senior software engineer has died after falling from the 14th floor of Google's New York City office building, the New York Post first reported. The name of the engineer hasn't been released pending family notification, the NYPD said.

☆ Google and OpenAI will lose the AI arms race to open-source engineers, a Googler said in a leaked document
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google and OpenAI are not positioned to win the AI arms race, a Google engineer said in a leaked doc. A document written by a senior Google engineer suggests the open-source community is rivaling them. Google and OpenAI are not positioned to win a hotly contested AI arms race as the open-source community is "lapping" them, a senior engineer at the search giant has said. Sernau said open-source engineers were doing things with $100 that "we struggle with" at $10 million, "doing so in weeks, not months." He cited challenges around running AI models on a phone as one such major issue, which he said open-source engineers have managed to do on a Google Pixel 6.

☆ Broad Pay Ranges Can Hamper Cybersecurity Hiring
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Kim S. Nash | Catherine Stupp | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +3 min

Companies that list wide pay ranges in cybersecurity job descriptions risk setting false expectations and kindling unrest among existing staff. Seven other states have required pay transparency for the past few years. In cyber recruiting, in particular, broad scales can hamper hiring, said Joyce von Seldeneck, founder and chair of Philadelphia-based Diversified Search Group. The last thing a company wants is to go bring candidates through an entire process and disappoint them at the end.”Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors. While some management consultants say pay transparency can light a fire under employees to work harder for higher compensation, Matthias Muhlert, chief information security officer at gummy-bear maker Haribo GmbH & Co., isn’t so sure.

☆ Siemens investigating report employee worked for Russian hacking firm
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

ZURICH, March 31 (Reuters) - Siemens (SIEGn.DE) has launched an investigation after Der Spiegel reported a former programmer from Russian IT company NTC Vulkan - which has reported links to Russian security services - worked for the German engineering and tech company. Der Spiegel reported on Friday that more than 90 former staff from NTC Vulkan worked for a several other European companies. The magazine said NTC Vulkan maintains close ties to all three major Russian intelligence services: FSB, GRU and SWR. Its so-called "Vulkan Files" said the company builds cyber programmes for the security services aimed at attacking critical infrastructure facilities. NTC Vulkan did not respond to requests for comment.

☆ 10 in-demand remote jobs paying $100,000 or more that companies are hiring for now
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Even though fewer people are working from home now compared to two years ago, it's still not a bad time to find a remote job — and some of the most in-demand roles companies are hiring for come with a six-figure paycheck. To examine where remote hiring is happening the most for high-paying jobs, FlexJobs identified the occupations with the highest number of remote job openings on their site between January and March 2023 that pay more than $100,000. Here are the 10 most in-demand remote jobs companies are hiring for and how much they pay, according to data from FlexJobs and Payscale:1. These three fields have seen significant remote job growth in the last 12 months despite recent layoffs rippling across the tech and finance sectors. While technical skills such as coding and web design are in demand in our increasingly digital world, soft skills, such as communication and problem-solving, are just as important for remote hiring managers.

☆ Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

The group includes people who were approved for or are currently on maternity leave, baby bonding leave, caregiver's leave, medical leave and personal leave. Early last year, Google announced it would be increasing parental leave for full-time employees to 18 weeks for all parents and 24 weeks for birth parents. Pichai said U.S.-based employees would receive 16 weeks of severance pay plus two weeks for each additional year they worked at Google. The Laid off on Leave group sent its first email to executives in January, and shared specific examples of Google employees impacted by the job cuts while on their previously approved leave. The company didn't address whether it would cover full medical leave on top of the severance payout.

☆ She was weeks away from maternity leave at Twitter. Then Elon Musk took over
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

Twitter now reportedly has fewer than 2,000 employees following more cuts late last month, down from around 7,500 before Musk took over. CNN“We were on the Twitter-coaster, the Elon Musk chapter, for seven months,” Ali said. De Caires is one of the former Twitter employees taking legal action against the company following mass layoffs after Musk took over. Jeff Chiu/APInstead, Twitter employees say they heard very little from their new leader in the days immediately after his takeover. Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan is representing around 1,500 former Twitter employees taking legal action against the company following Musk's takeover.

☆ 4 senior Twitter managers were previously on a 'do not fire' list, but they were fired anyway, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk fired four Twitter managers who were previously on a "do not fire" list, per Platformer. The managers, including Esther Crawford, worked at Twitter for just over two years, per LinkedIn. Twitter fired the four senior staffers over the weekend, the report said. The layoffs impacted a range of roles, including product managers, data scientists, and engineers, per Platformer. After the news broke about her job cut, Crawford tweeted that had no regrets about going "all-in on Twitter 2.0."

Meta's LLaMA, short for Large Language Model Meta AI, will be available under non-commercial license to researchers and entities affiliated with government, civil society, and academia, it said in a blog. Large language models mine vast amounts of text in order to summarize information and generate content. "Generative AI is a new application of AI that Meta has less experience with, but is clearly important for the future of their business." It described its 65-billion-parameter LLaMA model as "competitive" with Google's Chinchilla70B and PaLM-540B, which are even larger than the model that Google used to show off its Bard chat-powered search. Meta in May last year released large language model OPT-175B, also aimed at researchers, which formed the basis of a new iteration of its chatbot BlenderBot.

☆ How Moonhub, an AI recruiting platform, raised $4.4 million from OpenAI-backer Khosla Ventures and Google Ventures without a pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Moonhub is an AI startup aiming to make the recruiting process more automated and less biased. The company scrapes billions of public data points and makes them easily searchable for recruiters. The startup recently raised $4.4 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures and Google Ventures. OpenAI-backer Khosla Ventures and Google Ventures were equally enthusiastic about Moonhub's mission, recently providing the startup with $4.4 million in seed funding. Luckily, she was able to leverage her network to raise the round in less than two weeks, she said.

☆ A Google engineer said a 'beautiful day' was overshadowed after she found out she'd been laid off hours before giving birth to her second child
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On January 20, Nesiba lost her job at Google and went into labor with her second child. "What was supposed to be a beautiful and exciting day of labor was really overshadowed by all of this shock and terrible news," Natasha Nesiba told Insider. His position was unaffected but he checked his wife's email and saw she'd lost her job. Nesiba told Insider she's going through "a very difficult postpartum experience." Nevertheless, although she's "very hurt" right now, Nesiba told Insider she's still grateful for her time at Google.

☆ Laid-off Google engineer says he was in 'a state of shock' after being locked out of work emails at 3 a.m.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Google engineer said he was shocked to find out he was laid off at 3 a.m. on Friday. Chris McDonald told Insider he was locked out of work accounts 20 minutes after reading the notice. Chris McDonald, who was working as a senior software engineer at Google, was one of around 12,000 employees who lost his job. McDonald then logged onto his company laptop, checked his work email, and saw the same employment notice from Google. Within 20 minutes of logging onto his laptop, he was locked out of the company system and couldn't access his work emails.

☆ Satya Nadella doesn't expect spending to be very strong for the next couple of years, says Gil Luria
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSatya Nadella doesn't expect spending to be very strong for the next couple of years, says Gil LuriaGil Luria, senior software analyst at DA Davidson, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss expectations for Microsoft's earnings report, the payoff for Microsoft's investment in OpenAi in the short and long term, and the potential consequences of antitrust litigations against Google.

☆ An engineer laid off after over 16 years at Google said 'faceless' tech giants see staff as '100% disposable'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An engineering manager laid off by Google said the tech giant sees staff as "100% disposable." Justin Moore said on LinkedIn that he was laid off through an automatic account deactivation. Justin Moore, an engineering manager at Google, was one of the 12,000 people affected by Google's layoff last week. "This also just drives home that work is not your life, and employers — especially big, faceless ones like Google — see you as 100% disposable," Moore wrote in the post. On Friday, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google's parent Alphabet, sent an email to staff saying it was laying off around 12,000 staff, roughly 6% of its global workforce.

☆ Alphabet or Microsoft? Analysts predict which stock will come out on top
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Analysts say the platform could be a threat to Google's bread-and-butter search business . Alphabet and Microsoft compete in the cloud business. Neither stock did well in the past year, with Microsoft dropping more than 20%, and Alphabet tumbling over 30%. According to FactSet, analysts covering the stock gave it 21% upside on average, while 91% gave it a "buy" rating. According to FactSet, analysts covering Alphabet gave it 35% upside on average, while 92% gave it a buy rating.

☆ Twitter deliberately suspended Tweetbot and other third-party apps, forcing people to use the platform's official app, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter revoked access from third-party apps on purpose, The Information reported, citing messages. The report speculated Twitter may have suspended the apps because they don't boost ad revenue. The Information reported there was speculation that Twitter could have suspended the apps because they failed to bump up ad revenue. "Third-party app suspensions are intentional," a senior software engineer wrote on Thursday in an internal Twitter Slack channel, The Information reported. One employee asked when Twitter would provide a list of "approved talking points" for partners of third-party clients who had been suspended, The Information reported.

☆ These are some of the most popular jobs in tech right now and what they pay, according to a new website that tracks salaries at 700 firms
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A new website compiles salaries at 700 top tech companies, including industry giants like Amazon and Google. Using pay data from Comprehensive.io, Insider identified some of the most popular tech jobs available and what they pay. It tracks salaries at 700 top tech firms and startups, compiling pay ranges for various jobs based on figures that many companies are now required to list in job posts thanks to pay transparency laws in tech hubs like New York City and California. Using pay data aggregated on the site, Insider identified some of the most popular tech jobs right now, measured by the number of openings currently listed for a particular role, as well as their average pay ranges. The figures below were accurate as of the time of publication, but they may fluctuate, as the salary tracker updates daily as more job posts become available.

☆ What Apple, Google and other Big Tech companies are paying, based on new salary transparency data
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

It just got a lot easier to see how much some of the biggest tech companies in the world pay, thanks to a rollout of new salary transparency laws across the country. As of Jan. 1, California and Washington joined New York City and Colorado in legally requiring employers to post salary ranges on their job ads. Data is based on job posts from over 700 of the top tech companies and startups, accounting for more than 53,000 active listings. As of this week, Comprehensive.io says 39% of tech companies are complying with California's new salary range law. In New York City, which rolled out its legislation on Nov. 1, 63% of tech companies are complying.

☆ Fanatics salaries: Pay data shows how much the merch giant offers for tech and other jobs, as it expands into sports collectibles, betting, and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Colin Salao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Recent work-visa data shows how much the company offers to pay certain staffers. Salaries in the data ranged from $57,100 to $233,200 for mainly tech jobs in its retail division. It included base salaries for mainly tech jobs in the retail division, ranging from a data engineer position that would make $110,000 per year to a director of product management that would earn between $201,968 and $231,750 per year. For example, the data included a pay rate of $125,486 to $130,000 for an experimentation strategist position. Here were the salaries for jobs at Fanatics SPV:Director, Influencer Relations : $195,042 to $200,000: $195,042 to $200,000 Senior Platform Engineer: $144,726 to $165,000This story has been updated to reflect the latest available data.

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☆ Warner Bros. Discovery salaries revealed: Pay data shows how much the company recently offered for jobs at HBO and more, despite waves of layoffs and cuts
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

Insider analyzed new pay data from the entertainment companies, now merged as Warner Bros. Recent salaries ranged from $55 an hour to $300,000 a year for jobs at HBO and other units. The salaries ranged from $55 per hour to $300,000 per year, with a median annual salary of $143,000 to $170,000. For example, Discovery offered an ad sales account manager between $131,458 and $149,000 per year, according to the data. Associate Manager, Brand Marketing/Publishing: $92,518 to $130,011WarnerMedia DirectData Architect: $162,400 to $200,150 median; ranging from $159,800 to $205,000WarnerMedia Services

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☆ Meta staff are hitting out at Mark Zuckerberg in Blind reviews because they think his metaverse obsession will 'single-handedly kill' the company
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta employees are posting negative comments about Mark Zuckerberg on anonymous forum Blind. Some reviews, posted on Wednesday – the day Meta laid off 13% of its workforce – are negative, although others are more positive. Some 44 employee reviews of Meta were posted on Blind on Wednesday and Thursday this week. They added: "Mark Zuckerberg will single-handedly kill a company with the meta-verse." Meta employees have posted almost 6,000 reviews of the company on Blind since 2020 and it has a rating of 4 out of 5 stars.

☆ TikTok is still hiring despite the tech downturn. Here's how much it pays for hundreds of engineering, marketing, and other US jobs.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +42 min

Insider analyzed US work-visa data to gauge salary levels at TikTok and parent company ByteDance. The data show TikTok and ByteDance offered staffers on US work visas $30 an hour to $400,000 a year. And TikTok has begun to get into its stride with advertisers who are now taking it more seriously as a marketing platform. Based on the data, TikTok and ByteDance offered from late-2020 to mid-2022 base salaries ranging from $30 per hour to $400,000 per year for various roles. TikTok's median annual base salary was roughly $184,000 per year, based on data from 319 foreign-labor certification applications.

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☆ Elon Musk says he's not 'super worried' about Twitter staffers quitting in droves because the ‘best people are staying’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted that he's "not super worried" about Twitter staffers leaving. Musk said "the best people are staying," in response to a tweet by Barstool founder Dave Portnoy. Musk tweeted on Thursday evening that "The best people are staying, so I'm not super worried," in response to a tweet by Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sport's founder. Hey Elon Musk wanna do a Twitter space with me? Musk went on to tweet a series of memes joking about Twitter staffers exiting the company on Thursday night.

☆ A fired Twitter engineer urged remaining employees to 'disobey' Elon Musk, calling it their 'moral duty' to challenge the new billionaire owner
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A former Twitter employee urged those still left at the company to "disobey" Elon Musk. The fired employee said Twitter workers had a "moral duty" to keep the site's new owner in check. Since Musk took over Twitter a few weeks ago, thousands of workers have reportedly been fired. "Tweeps that are still employed, at this time: If your personal situation allows for it, it is your moral duty to disobey. According to Platformer's Casey Newton, Twitter fired roughly 20 employees overnight who had publicly and privately challenged and pushed back against Musk since he took over the company in late October.

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