Moving from an Individual Contributor (IC) to a manager is a significant career step. This is especially true in the ever-evolving tech industry. This change brings new challenges and opportunities to
Two things are true. The first is going to sound bad in a culture where engineers are encouraged to apologize for existing while it is totally acceptable for a grifter that can't code to insist that t
My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth and how to get to the next order of magnitude scale. If they’re making $1M ARR today, they think
Synchro Shoot/Stocksy Remote work has exploded since the pandemic struck, and employees like it. In speaking to hundreds of managers about this development, one concern crops up again and again: The s
In today’s climate, large-scale layoffs are in the news often. The industry being hit the hardest right now is tech, with more than 100,000 roles being cut in 2024 so far, including from large compani
Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark ReadingMarch 8, 2024 3 Min Read Source: Roman Samborskyi via Alamy Stock Photo Cybersecurity professionals are finding it more attractive to take their talents to th
Maybe you can put it down as another post-Covid trend, such as working from home, but it’s clear something is going on. People working for a range of employers are increasingly hoping to take sabbatic
Nathan Eddy, Contributing WriterSeptember 6, 2024 5 Min Read Source: Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH via Alamy Stock Photo With more than half a million cybersecurity jobs unfilled nationwide in th
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to
Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Showcase is a potentially vulnerable app present in Pixel firmware, designed for Verizon in-store demos. The app is not enabled by default, severely limiting th
Health For men like Joe Biden—highly educated, employed past 65, strongly tied to work—stepping away can pose its own risks to health and happiness. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: creativesunda
I always considered myself not especially smart. I mean, I think I have an "eye" or a "nose" for detecting good and bad things in advance, but I developed so many different things during my career tha
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I’ve been doing a lot of swimming over the past few weeks and I’ve regularly been hitting some new personal milestones over the past year. Each milestone brings with in a huge high, an endorphin rush,
My spiciest take on tech hiring … is that you only need to administer one technical interview and one non-technical interview (each no more than an hour long). In my opinion, any interview process lon
Bookending Mandy Brown — 08 May 2024 Here’s a small trick that worked for me over the dozen years I led remote teams: at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine. Yes, all of t
Published: Wed 13 March 2024 Updated: Wed 13 March 2024 By tags: cybersecurity career There has been a lot of hype for a while now about cybersecurity careers. Cybersecurity careers are hot, they say.
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I keep a bullet journal. I'm not one of those people you see on Pinterest with the fancy spreads – I mostly just use black ink, the standard setup, and the occasional custom collection. Every time I j
Imagine this. You step into a room filled with your colleagues and they are busy working on their laptops. Confident in the compelling message you’re about to deliver, you start speaking. Message deli
I. The Bumper The trip to Delaware was only supposed to last a day. David Pokora, a bespectacled University of Toronto senior with scraggly blond hair down to his shoulders, needed to travel south to
“I was devastated, but life goes on and I feel fortunate for where I work now,” said Kiew, who never met Musk but witnessed him famously carrying a kitchen sink through Twitter’s San Francisco headqua
My Journey from Discontent to Discovery Two and a half years ago, I found myself at a crossroads. My career path was a patchwork of sales and odd jobs—from pest control to driving for Uber to moving p
The Brutality Reality of Hunting For Cyber Work A New Experience The last 3 months have been a bit of a shock to me and a first in my career. Firstly, a bit on context, as I don’t want this post to be
Maybe it’s all in what you’re used to. In fact, I’m sure it is. I grew up with two, hardworking, blue collar parents—a mechanic, and a cosmetologist. We lived in a town where neighbors looked after ne
Crafting a standout resume for a cybersecurity practitioner position not only involves showcasing your technical prowess and soft skills but also requires strategic use of keywords to ensure your appl
11 min read· Jan 27, 2024 -- Hi all! So, this is going to be a different type of post. I’ve tried to stay a little off the radar personally with my blogs and Twitter account for a lot of reasons. It’s
I’ve been thinking about all these layoffs, and wanted to capture some thoughts and speculations on the causes. Both for the existing ones, and those I think are to come. Economic pressure First, ther
Recent tech layoffs have left many questioning the industry’s stability. However, a closer look reveals that these layoffs are not a sign of economic struggles, but rather a strategic move by tech com
I spent a fair portion of my adult life working for large tech companies. In all my interactions with peers, no other topic caused as much cynicism and angst as the question of performance management
A mere 700 IT jobs were added in the US last year compared to 267,000 the year prior, it's claimed. It'd be easy to blame layoffs, but that's not all there is to it, says tech consultancy Janco Associ
By Damien Santiago I’ve created five CodeQL queries that catch potentially potent bugs in the OpenSSL libcrypto API, a widely adopted but often unforgiving API that can be misused to cause memory leak
I have a dead-simple diagnostic tool for 2024. Ask yourself how you feel about Mondays. Too many of us dread them. The meetings. The meetings about meetings. The planning that rarely turns into realit
6 min read· Sep 12 https://endgamepr.com/ In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs in 2025. Their research shows that global cybersecurity j
The following essay is adapted from a social media post. It attracted quite a bit of attention, so I decided to refine the argument here. I spent more than 25 years in tech. If you asked me for advice
By Lauren Weber | Photographs by Jovelle Tamayo for The Wall Street Journal Updated Nov. 2, 2023 at 9:49 am ET The return-to-office battle between workers and employers is entering a more combative ph
November 2, 2023 Security management Today Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith shared insight on the global cybersecurity landscape and introduced our Secure Future Initiative. These engin
Some of the biggest names in tech have unleashed layoffs over the past few days. Is this a bad sign for the tech industry as a whole? Expedia, Waymo, LinkedIn, Bandcamp, and Stack Overflow have all ma
Enlarge Google / Ron Amadeo Google used to be a company that rarely did layoffs, but this year job cuts are almost a monthly occurrence. The latest group to see cuts is Google's news division, which C
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