A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month. Commvault names Pranay Ahlawat as chief technology and AI officer Ahlawat will oversee the company’s product vision and development life cycle as they embrace more AI technologies. Previously … continue reading
In today’s tech landscape, engineering talent is one of the most valuable assets that an organization can have. However, increasing attrition rates among developers means that retaining quality developer talent is also one of the biggest challenges for business leaders. Even despite sweeping layoffs in tech, engineers are still in high demand. At the center … continue reading
Rapid growth is a great measure of a company’s success, but it comes with potentially serious growing pains that can hurt collaboration and overall effectiveness of your teams. Here, rapid scaling means hiring more people to maintain a consistent growth rate, since headcount growth follows revenue. For instance, hiring more developers to build new features … continue reading
CompTIA, provider of vendor-neutral IT certifications, today announced the Tech Job Posting Optimizer, optimize.comptia.org, in order to help employers expand their pipelines and seek out overlooked or untapped talent. The free, web-based platform offers a range of tech job templates and data tools intended to optimize postings for skills, qualifications, and inclusivity oriented to the … continue reading
Our company didn’t start out as a company. We started by building an app for the Broadway show “Hamilton” – the first commercial Flutter app built outside of Google. It was a feature-rich, multi-platform, shoot-the-moon, very fast effort, and its success put us on the map. So our DNA isn’t “Let’s start a business to … continue reading
The world has gone through a lot of changes over the past two years, and the technical interview process is just another thing that had to change due to COVID-19. Rather than going into an office and doing a whiteboard interview where you are literally writing code, companies had to shift tactics to be able … continue reading
CodeSignal, a technical recruiting company, announced today new advanced hiring assessment capabilities. The release features the new IDE designed to test candidates’ technical skills with real-world assessments. According to CodeSignal, the new IDE works as a flight simulation of the coding environment. This allows for employers to fully assess a candidate’s skill set while also … continue reading
From mask mandates to seeing coworkers and associates through video calls rather than in person, the coronavirus has completely altered the way we work. The way we go about running a business is not exempt from this, as more and more companies transition from in-person workplaces to virtual formats. There are many benefits and disadvantages … continue reading
After a year of pandemic-related job losses in the U.S., it might seem out of place to talk about the huge talent gap in our domestic tech industry. The reality is that the pandemic drove demand for digital customer experiences and products in an unprecedented way. In retail, for example, McKinsey reported that e-commerce skyrocketed … continue reading
HackerRank announced at its HackerRank.main() virtual event today a new pillar to be added to its developer hiring solution. Rank, the company’s fourth pillar, was designed to benchmark developer candidates and give hiring managers more confidence when bringing on new talent. “The purpose of this pillar is to help you build up the confidence in … continue reading
The world may seem like it is on pause as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but technology is still advancing and the skills gap between talent and job requirements is widening. Microsoft estimates that there will be 149 million new technology jobs by 2025. There will be 1 million new jobs for privacy and trust, 6 … continue reading
Go to any IT conference or class and you see the attendees chatting with each other about their organization’s hardware, software, and networks. But you almost never hear them talk about their staff. What is surprising about this is that study after study has shown that, of all of IT’s assets, staff is the most … continue reading
