I’ve been thinking about moats a lot lately. And how they apply to career and personal growth. For those who have never heard the term, it’s common terminology among the investor folk. Warren Buffet m

When workplaces are remade by a tectonic shift — women flooding into the work force, the rise of computing — it typically takes some time for economists, psychologists, sociologists and other scholars

Here’s an uncomfortable topic, especially in the Bay Area. Covid and a near recession has taught companies that they don’t like lifestyle employees. Or what I’m calling “casuals”. These are people who

For the second year in a row, inflation outpaced growth in U.S. engineering salaries, according to the IEEE-USA 2023 Salary and Benefits Survey. That’s the first multiyear dip in real income since the

Workers who telecommute tend to be more aware of cybersecurity threats than those who spend most of their time in a physical office and are more likely to take action to ward them off, according to ou

When Rowan Rosenthal heard about Grindr’s return-to-office mandate during a virtual town hall meeting in August, anxiety, confusion and anger set in. The principal product designer lived within a 25-m

But despite previous transparency around the cost-cutting measures, employees inquiring about how the budget cuts have impacted their performance review will now be fobbed off. According to leaked gui

I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you

Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforc

Tech workers are debating if the days of $500,000 salaries are over. Sesame / Getty Images Tech workers on anonymous networking site Blind debated whether the end of $500,000 salaries is here. While t

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Adam Jackson, a founder of Braintrust, a decentralized talent network that runs on a blockchain. “All this buzz around ChatGPT, it’s mostly just sizzle,” Jackson said. “It’s not changing how companies hire.” He said people are irreplaceable for jobs that require understanding human needs, such as…

This is my third cycle of industry-wide layoffs in tech. I landed my first computer job in the late 1990s. Soon after, I moved to the US and waltzed right into the middle of the dot-com crash. We crac

Last Tuesday, I posted a social media poll soliciting topics for the next article. Alongside some reasonable choices, I jokingly included “life advice from an infosec has-been”. This option ended up r

Watch The toll of layoff anxiety 6 February 2023 Features correspondent Getty Images As companies around the globe slash positions, many workers are steeping in worry that they’re next. “Every morning

Why are so many people in tech getting laid off at once? Image: The Verge There’s an eerie similarity to the statements tech companies have made about their recent layoffs. Mainly, if the press releas

Guest Essay The Era of Happy Tech Workers Is Over Jan. 19, 2023 Credit...Eva Redamonti By Ms. Rawlinson is a former chief people officer at Slack. 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版Leer en español Silicon Valley as we kn

Although Tiara Richardson read news articles warning of looming Big Tech layoffs, she still hoped her job as a content designer for Meta would be safe. She had been with the company for four months an

I suppose one could say that I’ve been doing this far too long, and I’ve gained some knowledge about how the cybersecurity industry works, and how people succeed or fail at the field. To give back to

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Large, traditional business networking events are a time-honored institution. They have been a staple of aspiring and successful professionals for so long that most networking advice focuses not on wh

I’ve been writing for most of my adult life. It helps me think. Joan Didion, a noted writer, had a similar take: "I write … to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, … and what it means”. Th

I recently discovered “Hot Ones” on YouTube. If you haven’t seen any of the episodes, you should (because they really are fantastic). This isn’t really a controversial opinion: their YouTube channel h

Layoffs are happening across the board in tech, media and other industries. Microsoft became the latest to announce layoffs after several other tech companies including Meta , Twitter , Lyft, Stripe a

2022 is the year where Tech Compensation drops for the first time in decades. You hear non-stop about the rising costs associated with inflation, rents increasing ,and higher mortgage interest rates.

Getting your foot in the door or finding your next gig in cyber security is sometimes a daunting task. Just like hacking, a methodology is needed to succeed. Here's how I see the core components (this

In this post I’m going to convince you why everyone needs a blog. Here’s the TL;DR: People used to be defined by where they work, and now they’re defined by their knowledge, capabilities, and opinions

Disclaimer: if you are looking for a strictly technical article, the ones I usually write, you will be disappointed. This blogpost is mainly my two cents on the way we, cybersecurity professionals, us

One of the reasons I have some modicum of credibility when I talk about AWS is that I strive for fairness. When I say something AWS has done is good, people believe me because I’ll also call out when

Microsoft plans to “nearly double” its budget for employee salary increases and boost the range of stock compensation it gives some workers by at least 25%, an effort to retain staff and help people c

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. A friend of mine recently turned down a job promotion that included a raise of $100,000 a year. He

This is an internet re-post of a piece by Bryan Goldberg that is no longer available online. – by Bryan Goldberg About a year ago, my sales operations team needed to hire an Account Manager. We had a

T he change started about a year ago. I had just finished cooking my Thanksgiving turkey. I’d picked up smoking meats as a hobby during the first year of the pandemic, but that day, I couldn’t really

22 August 2021 - 14 mins read time Tags: culture I’m burnt out. Or, I was. I was recently unemployed - fortunately, by choice - and I was struggling to get out of bed by 10am, struggling to work out,

In his book, The Art of Science and Engineering, Richard Hamming says the key to a great career is vision. Your career needs a vision. Even a bad one is better than nothing Love this paragraph from Ha

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