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Chart: Technology job posts are on the rise in Seattle

Last week, Payscale released a report showing that Seattle is one of the hottest markets for startup technology jobs. Now,… Read More

Map: The hottest spots in the U.S. for startup tech jobs

Startup companies all over the country are fighting hard to attract and retain top technology talent — a tough chore… Read More

Good news: Jobless rate falls to 8.3 percent in Washington

We often feel like we’re in a bubble covering the tech industry, a sector which has shown resilience and strength… Read More

Why it’s so gosh-darned hard to find tech talent: Thoughts from 8 startup veterans

You’ve heard the stories of the tight labor market, and read about some of the unusual gimmicks (and even cash… Read More

Microsoft back in hiring mode: Where it’s adding new jobs

Microsoft returned to modest employment growth in 2011, adding more employees around the world than at any point since making… Read More

As talent war accelerates, venture firm hires a veteran recruiter to find top execs and developers

It’s getting much harder for startup companies to find the technical, engineering and executive talent that they need to grow… Read More

Tableau Software to nearly double staff, plans to hire 300 in 2012

Tableau Software plans to hire 300 new workers this year, nearly doubling its staff of 350 as business continues to accelerate… Read More

The Climate Corp. picks Seattle for branch office, looks to cultivate talent to crunch weather data

Over the course of the past 18 months, a number of California tech titans (Facebook, Salesforce.com, Zynga and Hulu) have… Read More

Garden gnomes and elephants: How would you answer these 25 oddball interview questions?

The tech economy is firing on all cylinders, but that doesn’t mean it is any easier to get a job… Read More

Amazon.com picks Boston for new development center

Amazon.com has been growing like a weed over the past year, hiring hundreds of engineers and developers at its new… Read More

Washington’s jobless rate dips as employers ramp up hiring

Here’s some good news for hump day. Washington’s jobless rate fell to 8.7 percent in November as employers in the… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Mariachi and margaritas mark wild year for Double Down’s Walcott, Enell

Executives at Double Down Interactive hired a mariachi band to entertain staffers at a company meeting in September — a special… Read More

Daily deal site Zulily to add up to 600 jobs in central Ohio

Zulily, the fast-growing Seattle daily deals site, is planning to establish a new distribution and fulfillment center in central Ohio… Read More

Another day, another big real estate lease for Amazon.com

Amazon.com’s appetite for office space in downtown Seattle is truly astounding. For the second time this week, word has emerged… Read More

Amazon.com continues to grow, gobbling up prime real estate

Amazon.com added more than 8,000 employees during the third quarter — a mind-numbing hiring pace for the Seattle-based online retailer.… Read More

Google hires Microsoft worker who left over Nokia tweet

Remember Joe Marini? He’s the Microsoft worker who left his job back in September after tweeting about what was then an… Read More

Jobless rate in Washington state drops to nine percent

Washington state’s unemployment rate fell to nine percent during the month of October as employers added 4,600 jobs in education,… Read More

Bain Capital to buy Physio-Control from Medtronic for $487 million

After 13 years under the umbrella of Medtronic, Redmond-based Physio-Control is getting a new corporate parent. It was announced this… Read More

Young workers prefer Amazon to Microsoft, but they really want a job at Google

Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google and Facebook constantly compete for talent, wooing employees with lucrative stock grants, big salaries or nifty office… Read More

Facebook doubling down in Seattle, moving to larger office

Facebook’s Seattle engineering office will move to a new downtown location next year, twice the size of its existing space,… Read More

Tech Moves: Sony vet hired at WildTangent; Keegan Hall joins Pirq; RescueTime and more

Mark Donohue, a former senior vice president of ad sales at Sony Digital, has joined WildTangent to oversee the Redmond… Read More

F5 Networks hires Cisco veteran to lead charge in security

F5 Networks, fresh off its blockbuster financial announcement last week, continues to strengthen its executive bench. The Seattle company today… Read More

Amazon vet Anne Krook puts roots down at Mindbloom

Anne Krook, who spent 13 years at Amazon.com, most recently overseeing disaster response and disaster recovery, has joined Seattle startup Mindbloom… Read More

Tech Moves: Isilon vet joins Skytap; Sewichi bulks up; and more

Brett Goodwin, a former marketing executive at Isilon Systems and RealNetworks, has joined fast-growing Seattle cloud computing startup Skytap as… Read More

EMC boss Joe Tucci loves being in the backyard of Amazon and Microsoft

EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci is in Seattle today, celebrating the grand opening of the company’s new 140,000 square foot… Read More

Isilon adding 200 jobs as it settles into Pioneer Square HQ

Isilon Systems, getting comfortable in its new digs in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, said today that it plans to add… Read More

Struggling to find engineers in Seattle, Apptio sets up shop in North Carolina

Bellevue-based Apptio is growing fast, so fast in fact that it can’t find enough software engineers in the Seattle area.… Read More

Amazon.com poised to take another Seattle high-rise

Seattle’s burgeoning South Lake Union neighborhood might just not be big enough for Amazon.com, at least for now. The online… Read More

U.S. high-tech industry lost 115,800 jobs last year

Don’t tell this to Amazon.com, Facebook, Google or the countless startup companies in Seattle that are struggling to find high-quality… Read More

India’s HCL arrives in Redmond with big growth plans

HCL Technologies, which has morphed from one of India’s “garage startups” into a multi-billion dollar IT services juggernaut, has established… Read More

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