Sentences with phrase «company than an engineer»

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Waymo claimed in a lawsuit earlier this year that former engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self - driving truck company, which Uber acquired soon after.

More than half of those openings are at one company, Accenture, which is looking to fill a large number of entry - level roles including consulting analysts and software engineers.

Large oil companies like ExxonMobil, which in 2011 earned more than $ 40 billion, make no hiring or firing decisions based on government handouts, but startup green - energy companies will hire more engineers and technicians, more marketing professionals and managers if governments invest in them.

After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

He and I started working together and it was pretty clear to me when I met him, that he was going to be more than an engineer to work with, that he'd be the kind of person I could actually start a company with.

Mid-level engineers generally receive less than one - half of one percent of equity in the companies they join, but at 10 percent of companies, they're getting a full percent or more.

The company now has more than 400 employees, and has doubled the number of engineers in the past year.

A newly launched engineering design, manufacturing and distribution company had fewer than 30 employees and had never done more than $ 825,000 in sales in any of its first three years.

Considering the startup has less than 20 employees, according to the news website Silicon Republic, it's likely that Facebook's Oculus unit is acquiring the company for its engineering staff rather than trying to commercialize the startup's existing technology.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

The Boring Company will also use novel engineering to tunnel faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else; a feat which seems reasonable to achieve when you have billions of dollars and excellent engineers at your disposal — which, realistically, solves most engineering problems.

«Markus is one of those engineers who is just more comfortable sitting in front of a computer than he is talking to someone face to face,» says Noel Biderman, the co-founder of Avid Life Media, a Toronto - based company that owns several dating sites.

As any local tech company grows, it must eventually confront the fact that the Canadian talent pool, in terms of both executives and engineers, is much smaller and less educated than those in Silicon Valley, Seattle or New York.

As an environmental remediation rental company, we have more than 150 specialized assets — water - level indicators, water - interface probes and gas - detection equipment — that are leased to environmental technologists, engineers and field personnel.

The company, which had just eight employees as recently as December (mostly engineers in Israel), pitched itself differently than the typical cybersecurity marketing spiel.

I realized that since [the company was] going to outsource activities like engineering that Xirrus had always done internally that the engineering staff might have different skill sets than what would be needed.

Deep within the company, engineers and others believed the ignition switch flaw was a «customer convenience» issue rather than a safety problem, the report said.

Malehorn noted that engineering graduates from the University of Illinois often leave to work for companies on the East and West coasts, despite the fact that the school churns out more engineers each year than many other top programs combined.

Problems with engine turbine blades wearing out sooner than expected have hampered a restructuring programme prompted by the engineering company's declining older engine programmes and plunging demand for oil equipment.

Rather than turning inward to its core team of designers and engineers to come up with the new look, the company turned outward — and let the world decide how the car would look, feel, and drive.

Though less visible than manufactured goods and natural resources, our new research shows that Canadian companies are increasingly selling their engineering, computer, insurance, and other high - value services in global markets.

This overall deprioritization has led to «more than a dozen» engineers leaving the team for other Apple departments or companies, according to Bloomberg.

For example, his engineers noticed that the company spent more than $ 3,000 a month on an online news service that grossed less than $ 500 a month.

The report, which didn't identify SDM as the sponsor, pulled together survey responses given by 700 designers, engineers, and business executives, nearly half of whom work for manufacturing companies that pull in more than $ 50 million in revenue a year.

The company, which employs about 400 people total, has more than doubled its engineering team in the past 18 months, Bernshteyn said.

DCVC brings to bear a unique model that unites a team of experienced venture capitalists with more than 50 technology executives and experts (CTOs, CIOs, Chief Scientists, Principal Engineers, Professors at Stanford, Berkeley, and major technical universities) with significant tenures at top 100 technology companies and research institutions worldwide.

Former Uber and Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski allegedly stole more than 14,000 files before he left Waymo and started the self - driving truck company that is Otto, which was almost immediately acquired by Uber.

Before Uber's recruiting, NREC had more than 100 engineers and scientists developing technology for companies and the U.S. military.

But it's worth asking: Has the company lost something by making innovation the province of an elite few, rather than a part of every engineer's weekly routine?

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has said many a time that the firm is a technology company, and has gone on to state that Goldman Sachs employs more engineers than companies like Facebook and Twitter.

Advancing the right growth metrics or connecting the company to a superstar engineer, or a promising venture capitalist, could be well more valuable than working solely on product copy.

But sources said the controversial CEO has repeatedly held meetings with the company's human resources representatives, Levandowski and Eric Meyhofer, a top engineer who joined the Pittsburgh team more than two years ago, just in the first two days of the week.

But certain «service businesses» such as consulting, engineering, law, medicine and financial services companies making more than $ 75,000 a year ($ 150,000 for married couples) are excluded from taking the deduction.

When the company was acquired by Facebook, it had 35 engineers and reached more than [one billion] users.»

The company employees nearly 70 engineers, researchers and scientists, and has more than 200 scientific publications and 30 patents under its belt.

Hoffmeyer suggests there are many use cases for blockchain in treasury functions and capital structures, where companies can move secure tokens instead of using real funds.IBM, now the world's biggest employer of blockchain engineers, says more than 400 of its customers — including blue - chip names Walmart, Nestlé, Kroger, JD.com, Unilever, Maersk, DuPont and Dow Chemical — are currently running blockchain - based projects.

«It's impossible at this early stage to point to a clear reason why we have a higher percentage of African - American engineers than other companies,» Anne Toth, Slack VP of compliance and policy, responded.

This Netherlands - domiciled geological engineering company released a profit warning in July, indicating that first - half margins would be in the low single digits (lower than both market and our expectations) and that it would be booking EUR 300 - 350 million of impairments in its subsea joint venture and multi-client library.

SNC - Lavalin Group Inc., Canada's largest engineering company, fell to its lowest in more than three months after posting a decline in first - quarter profit and saying it will consider paring some infrastructure holdings.

An electrical engineer accepted a job working on a rural electrification project in India, rather than a secure position in an American company.

After winning several long - term engineering contracts with regional shire councils, Mr Godfrey said his accountant urged him to create his own proprietary company to avoid falling foul of the «80 per cent rule»: no more than 80 per cent of a year's income can come from a single client.

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

Engineers from CST Wastewater Solutions — an Australian company with more than 25 years» experience in wastewater treatment — conducted testwork and found the best method to obtain consistent wastewater that would meet the target discharge limits would be to use enhanced sedimentation, using a centrifuge.

Manhattan - based Park Strategies, which is also one of the larger state lobbyists, filed in Nassau to represent 20 clients, including Forest City Ratner (which also registered its own employees as lobbyists); Gannett Fleming Engineers, which has won more than $ 6 million in county contracts since 2011, mostly to design and oversee wastewater treatment plant improvements; and Allvision, a company that was poised to erect large electronic billboards across Nassau before the project stalled earlier this year.

For the moment, however, the principal engineers of Obama's victory seem more inclined to set up their own shops — whether consultancies or start - ups — than join an existing company.

When Jankowski tries to woo high - tech companies to the Texas city, data from Question No. 12 allow him to brag that the metropolitan area has a higher concentration of graduates with degrees in science and engineering than the country as a whole.

Kraft Foods, which employs more than 3,000 food scientists, chemists and engineers, is one company that has stepped up investment.

For people who work alone or in small companies, it may be easier to scrap computers when they go wrong than pay for a service contract or call out an engineer.

All told, companies have injected some 10.8 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas since the 1970s, according to petroleum engineer R. Tim Bradley, Kinder Morgan's president of CO2, to raise the yield from oil fields by some 650,000 extra barrels a day — more than 10 percent of daily U.S. total production.

Nowhere is this more true than in the field of green chemistry, where chemists regularly work alongside biologists, chemical engineers, commercial companies and policy - makers.