Sentences with phrase «for tech people»

For tech people, we might screen 50 people and hire one.

Not exact matches

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

While convincing people to wear a pair of high - end earbuds for hours at a time could sound like a tough sell, Kraft has extreme confidence in Doppler's ability to make waves in the wearable tech market.

This goes beyond creating a different way to conduct business — it's a new ideology for people to follow, says Art Mesher, a Waterloo, Ont., tech investor who ran Descartes Systems, a logistics technology firm, for a decade.

Indeed, for Torenberg, it wasn't until he found out that people he admired within the tech startup community struggled with depression that he learned to be okay with his own emotional lows.

To become a destination for innovative professionals, take a cue from some of the tech industry greats: Google, Apple and Facebook know the key to attracting the best people is creating a space where creativity is rewarded, collaboration is encouraged and mistakes are seen as learning opportunities rather than failures.

A few years ago at an SXSW conference, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said something so uncharacteristic for a scientifically - minded, tech entrepreneur, it made many people do a double take.

Hundreds of people doing cool and interesting things in New York tech came for cocktails, good food, and great company.

For a company like Musk's SpaceX, or any other tech company, if you want to get that team - collaboration vibe that's virtually drama - free and running on all cylinders, it's important to have people on the team who understand each other's style of communicating and collaborating, as well as their own.

That suggests that, for people who do own Sony, don't dump it yet — the few dollar gains S&P Capital IQ is predicting could give your portfolio a little boost in this still volatile market environment — but new buyers may want to seek out a better performing tech company.

In his 2014 book, The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, Hoffman, one of the most well - connected people in tech, emphasizes why networking is critical for success.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

As a result, the software is appropriate for a site in which a designer constructs a complicated format but less - tech - savvy people are responsible for updating the pages: The designer need only provide instructions to editors on which styles to use where.

Tech startups aren't just looking for people with the right skills on paper.

One Silicon Valley tech worker I interviewed remarked, «I can't imagine what people will go to college for in 20 years time.»

The fact that this is just about the most common office complaint has spurred about a million suggestions for how to improve the situation, including low - tech hacks, sophisticated tech tools, innovative management approaches like making your people pay for meetings, and unusual scheduling approaches.

It's been more than two years since Facebook and others in tech committed to hiring more women and underrepresented people of color, and so far, there is very little to show for it.

In 2014, after successfully building and exiting five businesses, New York — based tech entrepreneur Alexandre Mars started the Epic Foundation, a not - for - profit that connects wealthy business people with youth - focused charities.

I'd wager it won't, but then again, with today's accelerating tech cycles, most people will be ready for a new phone by then so the point may be moot.

Plus, with hefty price tags attached, most headsets aren't available for most people to use quite yet, making VR seem unattainable and out of reach for anyone outside of the tech community.

Take - Two Interactive Chairman & CEO Strauss Zelnick discusses tech addiction and the responsibility tech companies have for people who misuse their products.

She also said that it's hard to find tech - savvy people who want to work for small companies; they'd rather work for big, multinational corporations.

2016, in his words, will be the year people start implementing the tactical changes they've been talking about for years, while doubling down on existing mar - tech partnerships.

At a loss for gifts for the tech - savvy and socially conscious person in your life?

Google Assistant embodies Google's vision for how people will interact with the tech giant in the future — through voice, ambient computing, and context - aware artificial intelligence.

Google (goog), like other big tech companies including Apple (aapl) and Microsoft (msft), has been pushing its digital assistant as a new way for people to interact with their smartphones and other devices like the company's web - connected Google Home speaker.

The new report, from groups with obvious interest in the growth of the industry, the Association for a Better New York, Google, Citi, and the New York Tech Meetup, finds that 291,000 people are empoyed in the New York City «tech ecosystem.&raTech Meetup, finds that 291,000 people are empoyed in the New York City «tech ecosystem.&ratech ecosystem.»

And when companies do find people that meet their specifications, they are more likely to be lured away by a competitor, given the high demand for tech talent.

«There are people with pure tech skills — for example, how to go direct to consumers.

Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, for example, calls the jobless future «a Luddite fallacy»; he insists that people will be re-employed.

The aggressive use of options in the start - up arena is a key concern of people like Mark Edwards of iQuantic, which structures compensation packages for high - tech companies.

Roku's look is distinctly more «fun,» which might be off putting to people who take their media very seriously, but is ultimately a win for less tech - savvy folks.

On Wednesday, the most influential people in the tech industry gathered at Trump Tower in Manhattan for a conversation with president - elect Donald Trump.

With the tech industry accounting for 7.1 percent of U.S. GDP, employment in the industry surged to more than 6.7 million people in 2015.

The survey bodes especially poorly for tech giants like Google's Waymo, as only 20 percent of people surveyed said they would trust an existing tech company to safely execute on the futuristic vehicles.

In their attempts to deflect criticism by redefining the problem or moving the goalposts, Facebook and Google risk discouraging young women and people of color from having ambitions of working for tech.

«The readability and visualization of the data your BI collects is not only advantageous for your tech team, but often times the reports that the BI summary creates will need to be seen by other people - executives, future vendors, investors, etc.,» points out SelectHub, a service for enterprise software product evaluation.

Hey tech people: if you are responsible for an algorithm that chooses what people see, spend tomorrow thinking carefully about your choices

«What we hear often from companies is that people of color aren't applying,» says Mimi Fox Melton, director of community mobilization for Code2040, a nonprofit focused on developing black and Latinx leadership in tech.

«With so many people disengaged it's hard for real change to occur,» said Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Rainbow Push Coalition led a campaign in 2014 urging tech companies to release employee demographic data and diversify, in a statement.

«Build a service that makes technology accessible and not scary for older or non tech savvy people.

Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency business growth & innovation manager David Jones said outside of the 97 people shortlisted, the longer list of high - quality tech talent willing to come to New Zealand was a «valuable resource» for the city.

Tech companies bidding for coveted talent are indirectly driving housing costs higher than most people can easily afford.

While this premise might seem somewhat niche for a show that could just as easily make a fake company that develops a consumer gadget or a software program that is more tangible for the «low tech» people among us, it is actually extremely relevant.

«If leadership doesn't have an intense focus on both building and sustaining the right culture for your business and the people you want to attract, it's very easy for a toxic one to take over,» CEO of HR tech platform YouEarnedIt Autumn Manning tells Business Insider.

For the tech entrepreneurs who have clustered in downtown Toronto's office district in recent years, Jackson, Mississippi — a smallish southern city of 180,000 people — may not be high on a wish list of potentially lucrative export markets.

Related: How Tech's Richest People Spend Their Vacations Last week, The Washington Post Company reported $ 138.4 million in revenue during the second quarter for its newspaper publishing division, down 1 percent compared to the same period last year.

But in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, we started noticing that young people were doing some awfully significant things, whether in the financial world (Meredith Whitney had just made her bold call against Citigroup), in the tech world (Facebook was beginning to crank into high gear), or in other industries (Kevin Plank's apparel upstart Under Armour was giving Nike a real run for its money).

Zuckerberg, a billionaire running a tech company in a region known for runaway wealth, is by any reasonable person's definition not eligible to represent what VandeHei refers to as «Normal America.»

After all, the ad was relevant to the site — many people reading about tech might be looking for a career change in that same industry.