Seattle is top U.S. city in global talent ranking of software engineering hotspots Seattle technical recruiting startup Karat ranked the top cities around the world for hiring the best software engineers, and Seattle… Read More
Ballmer Group invests $3M in CodePath to help boost diversity in tech education The Ballmer Group, co-founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is investing $3 million in CodePath,… Read More
Serena Williams investing in Karat to help startup prepare more Black engineers for tech interviews Tennis star Serena Williams has made an investment in Karat, the Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews. While… Read More
Amazon expanding ‘upskill’ training for software developer roles to workers outside of company Amazon announced Tuesday that it is expanding one of its so-called “upskilling” programs to people outside of the company who… Read More
Geek of the Week: With laser focus, Jon-Tait Beason embraces iOS engineering at Glowforge When Jon-Tait “Jazbo” Beason moved from Jamaica to the United States 15 years ago, he was pursuing his goal to… Read More
From prison to Google: Seattle software engineer found hope working in a computer lab behind bars Gareth Small seems like any of the many thousands of people who have moved to Seattle in recent years to… Read More
Glassdoor data shows Gen Z workers attracted to high-paying tech jobs and Seattle’s top companies Generation Z wants a piece of the tech pie — the jobs, the companies and the cities — according to… Read More
Geek of the Week: Yi Yang’s love for video games taught him English, so he wrote a book about it Students in China who wish to study in the U.S. can often find the advanced vocabulary English tests to be… Read More
Blind software engineer taps into his ‘superpowers’ to write and fix code at Amazon Plenty of people look at code and have no idea what they’re seeing. It all just looks like a bunch… Read More
Highest-paying jobs in tech: Seattle tops list for software engineers, analysts Seattle is the best place for software engineers, data analysts, and quality analysts to earn a living. That’s according to… Read More