Sentences with phrase «working at a tech company»

As an English and literature major at Spelman College in Atlanta, Janelle McGregory never pictured herself working at a tech company in Silicon Valley.

Kelly Studer, a career consultant who's worked at tech companies including Google (and whose team recruited for Mayer) says, «She is all about style and substance.

While she may work at a tech company, Sandberg keeps track of her day with a «decidedly un-digital spiral - bound notebook,» according to Fortune's Miguel Helft.

DACA recipients work at tech companies, but their immigration status is often kept secret.

Established by engineers, the extraSlice founders have also worked at tech companies of all sizes, and stages of growth.

I'd graduated from college just two months earlier and relocated to Chicago to work at a tech company.

Diana graduated from Eastern Washington University with a Bachelor's in Economics and began working at a Tech company.

The technology to work remotely and to avoid the daily grind of commuting and meetings has finally come of age, and bestselling authors Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are the masters of making it work at tech company 37signals.

I currently live in the Bay Area and work at a tech company.

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He remembers, for instance, working in tech support at an Internet advertising company and getting a frantic call from a woman who was «completely flipping out.»

Founded by three tech veterans, who between them have experience working early on at companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Foursquare, Oceans is attempting to help entrepreneurs steer clear of common mistakes.

Holding information close to the vest has worked as it has gained big partnerships, Ambar Bhattacharyya, a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, who has handled investments in a number of other healthcare companies (they are not investors in Theranos), told Tech Insider in April.

He said his experience working with tech products at companies like Product Hunt and Meerkat provided him insight into consumer - focused startups.

«It's about how do you leverage the diversity you bring into your company for the benefit of your products, for your work force, for your culture,» she told Inc.'s Salvador Rodriguez onstage at the Change Catalyst's Tech Inclusion conference in October.

«It's clear that the buyer wound up with something not quite what it thought it was buying,» says Kip Witter, a vice president at The Brenner Group, Inc., a Cupertino, Calif. - based financial management and advisory firm that works with Silicon Valley tech companies.

He went from working over 12 hours each day at a Taiwanese high tech company to becoming a stay - at - home dad.

I found out about the subreddit from a van dweller who works as an engineer at a major tech company, and who says he made friends with other Bay Area - based, van - dwelling techies through the group.

In the post, he argues that there is «a subtle advantage that people who've worked at transformative tech companies have over people who haven't.

And iCloud, the company's service to back up photos, video, documents and user settings over the Internet, has laboured for years to meet Apple's «It Just Works» standard without ever living up to expectations (internal frustration with the situation boiled over last fall when Apple insiders talked — anonymously — to reporter Jessica E. Lessin at tech news site The Information about the business unit's disarray).

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

Early on I worked at a tech startup and in order to get that job, I kept pestering the founder of the company.

Employees say: «Having worked at a handful of NYC - based tech companies, many play favorites, lack diversity and don't hesitate to ask you to all but sell your soul to the company.

Now, many individuals in the tech diversity community find themselves in a state of despair and exasperation, angry at tech companies and questioning the work that they do.

«Sometimes I feel like maybe it's a fluke that I even made it in, because my friends aren't that different from me,» says Martina Abrahams, an African American woman who works at a financial tech company in San Francisco and previously worked at Google.

The Vancouver company, like other Canadian tech companies, is competing with San Francisco's Silicon Valley which regularly draws software engineers to work at heavyweights Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and LinkedIn, and startup firms.

Though I've been lucky to work at a company where I've received a lot of support — from leaders like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg to mentors like Bill Campbell — my experience in the tech industry has shown me just how pervasive that question is.

«She's worked in the tech industry, at a Fortune 500 company, in academic publishing, and for a Canadian regulatory agency — at least that's the resume you could build with the company websites that use her likeness.»

Before joining private equity firm Capital Advisors as an executive vice president, she had worked at a couple of tech companies — including as CFO of General Magic, a spin - off from Apple (AAPL) that closed in 2002 — and in all of those positions her job was to obsess over quarterly results, meeting demands of investors.

In the U.S., those who work at companies where the technology is «ahead of the curve» love their work about twice as much as those who work at tech - lagging companies, according to the study.

At CES, Samsung president and CEO BK Yoon urged tech companies to work together on Internet - connected solutions.

Rather than poach a leading researcher and their students, as many tech companies do, Element AI has taken a «visiting researcher» approach, allowing university researchers to work at the company and even publish their research as long as it does not include proprietary information from clients.

Jane's Medium post, in which she said she ate little more than rice at her apartment 30 miles from work, didn't make surprising new claims about wage distribution by tech companies.

New employment opportunities: A San Francisco driver looking for a programming job told me that he would hang out around the top 10 tech companies after working hours and try to give rides to people at the company.

Young companies are now offering higher salaries than the tech industry average — with developers earning 26 percent more, marketers raking in an additional 7 percent, and sales / business development folks commanding a 12 percent premium to work at startups.

Having worked at mature tech companies like Google and Microsoft, and having advised several young startup founders, Dan Shapiro says that people at the tech bellwethers don't look kindly on brogrammer antics.

I'm 29 and was working in corporate finance at a top tech company until I decided to take a break from the rat race to do a round the world trip.

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B. Mid-level Manager Maddy works for a $ 12M tech service company that excels at customer support.

Tony uses his operating experience from being a CEO, financial background as a CPA and CA, and technical knowledge from the work that he has done for Tech companies to drill down and understand at a nuanced level what his clients are seeking to achieve as they build their teams.

What's it really like to work at Chicago startups and tech companies?

It's important that executives understand the impact that tech companies can have on the world, and the memo shows that Boz and Facebook are, at the very least, aware of the potential consequences of their work.

The NCAA tournament can be a costly grind for parents, and Lisa, a dispatcher for Comcast, and Wesley, a tech ops supervisor for the same cable company, had to work, so they figured they'd wait for a homecoming at the Georgia Dome.

And some of Howe's fundraising occurred at the same time he was working for SUNY Polytechnic Institute, a university built on research partnerships with major tech companies, as well as COR, CHA and other developers that SUNY Poly hired to build multimillion - dollar facilities in Buffalo, Albany and suburban Syracuse.

Prior to working in the Governor's office, Seggos served as Vice President of Business Development at the clean - tech private equity company Hugo Neu Corporation, Chief Investigator and Attorney at Riverkeeper, Associate at the Natural Resources Defense Council and as a legal clerk at the White House.

Cuomo, who until recently had a good relationship with the business community, has also worked to try to encourage more higher paying jobs, through tax free zones at college campuses to attract new high tech companies, and a property tax cap.

Woods worked as a lab tech and also a sales rep at companies such as Bausch & Lomb, Eastman Kodak, and Xerox.

The work could help average users and companies measure the strength of passwords, says Thomas Ristenpart, a computer scientist who studies computer security at Cornell Tech in New York City but was not involved with the study.

A majority of the company's experienced engineers come from work backgrounds at Google, Amazon, Spotify, Etsy, Meetup, and other big names in the tech world.

[In] my years in California working four years at a company called Autodesk and then working in Silicon Valley for a regional organization that worked with all the major high tech companies — Cisco, HP, Intel, Sun — one of the things that we found is that kids were just totally unprepared to work in these environments.

Stig Leschly had some early career success as a high - tech entrepreneur (he sold his e-commerce company to Amazon in his late twenties) and for the last 15 years has been working in education, the last four years as CEO at Match Education.