Sentences with phrase «from engineering companies»

My favourite part of the day was the «insider insights» networking drinks with graduates and industry professionals from engineering companies.

Train manufacturer Hitachi Rail Europe has hired its first GC from engineering company WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Not exact matches

Prince explained that being afraid to say no to clients changes a company from being engineering - driven to being customer - driven.

From there he accepted a lead engineering position at another early - stage tech firm — PayPal co-founder Max Levchin's social media company Slide, acquired by Google in 2010 for $ 228 million.

Around the same time as his graduation from engineering at the University of British Columbia, he sold the company — a system that uses high - speed imaging to scan for defects in packaging — he'd founded as a student.

That stemmed from a detailed essay published by a former female Uber engineer, who charged that her prospects at the company evaporated after she complained about sexual advances from her boss.

After graduating from high school (he played percussion in the marching band), Surace earned an engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and began his career working for large companies: IBM, Seiko Epson, and National Semiconductor, which relocated him to Silicon Valley.

Even as Piëch maneuvered, there's a sign that VW engineers were considering the use of software that would let the company cheat on its emissions testing, according to a recent article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which attributed the information to a preliminary report from VW's internal investigation.

The company engineered two three - month loans, totaling $ 300,000, from a private party — «a friend of a friend,» says Anderson — who required the owners to put up 10 % of their equity as collateral and make principal and interest payments of $ 75,000 a month.

Uber's second bad week: The company's SVP of engineering Amit Singhal has left the company after sexual harassment allegations from his prior job at Google came to light.

The latest backing came from a group which included Richard Branson's The Spaceship Company — the manufacturing arm of Virgin Galactic — as well as other «tech bosses, engineers, and astronauts,» according to The Daily Mail.

The insurance company arranged for a structural engineer to fly up from Edmonton and, accompanied by an adjuster, check the place out.

But making the leap from the role of practitioner or product engineer to running the entire company is significant.

He joined the company 37 years ago as an industrial engineer after being recruited from his college management class.

When Canada first launched the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 1973, it was designed to allow companies to hire skilled professionals, like engineers, from outside the country when their expertise couldn't be found in the domestic market.

One of the biggest challenges self - organizing companies face is finding a way to balance the freedom that engineers receive to make their own decisions with a process that prevents them from wasting time when their instincts lead them astray.

He said companies needed more trained engineers, especially those from other countries who earn their degrees in the U.S. but are forced out after graduation.

The company offers turnkey solutions to its customers, who can choose from a range of options such as product design and engineering, manufacturing of prototype and production moulds, mould adjustment and parts production.

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.

Nevertheless, the companies providing platforms for the homespun «algos» say popularity is growing among everyone from advertising executives and telecom engineers to defense contractors.

The company has told its investors that it plans to find $ 3 million in savings from consolidating the two operations, shifting all the management to St. John's while retaining Atlantis» software engineering operations.

The company sent us comments from Kyle Rogers, a system performance engineer at MP, via an email from an Allete representative.

A former engineer's claims of sexism at Uber have rocked the company for days, leading to a teary apology from its CEO Travis Kalanick.

Mining and civil engineering contractor Maca has posted a 6.4 per cent increase in profit to $ 34.7 million for the six months to December, despite revenue taking a hit from recent mine closures, as the company shifted its focus onto gold projects in South America.

How else can a boring company steal a star engineer from a hot startup?

«We decided to sell not the technology, but the benefits,» says Raviv, who started the company in 2008 with backing from a Philadelphia incubator while an undergraduate engineering student at University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in May.

While you could argue that Unosquare embodies criticisms about free trade sucking jobs from the U.S. economy, Barrett says companies in the U.S. can't find enough software engineers to fill open positions.

A federal judge just blocked a top Uber engineer from working on the company's key self - driving technology.

Newly appointed general manager Jim Horton brings to the company experience from tenures at several international engineering firms before relocating to Perth from Queensland.

Aside from the new premises, a foundation of Pressure Dynamics ambitious growth strategy is a recent distribution agreement with global engineering company Parker Hannifin Corporation.

It's often when I comes up with some of my best ideas for the private air service company that I founded with my wife following retirement from a career as a civil engineer.»

CEO Greg Isenberg brought his five software engineers from Montreal to San Francisco to help run his company, 5by, which developed an app that sifts through online videos and delivers them to users based on mood, social interests and time of day.

Or he could draw foreign engineers away from outsourcing firms and into fast - growing technology companies, which build products we all use and create new jobs for Americans.

The UK company is betting on its ingenuity, engineering skills and technology to save it from falling to earth in its audacious attempt to break into the global automotive industry.

There will be 40 million mega cities (cities with 10 million or more people) in the world by 2030, up from 28 million cities in 2015, according to engineering consulting company CH2M.

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - An Arkansas judge on Friday dismissed a Monsanto Co lawsuit aiming to stop Arkansas from blocking the use of a controversial farm chemical the company makes, dealing a blow to its attempts to increase sales of genetically engineered seeds.

Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

In a heated discussion on Reddit this week, social engineer Chris Hadnagy, who tests the network security of companies using tactics such as phishing and keylogging scams, shared his tips on cybersecurity from a hacker's point of view.

«Women — from executives to engineers to driver partners — have helped build Uber into the company it is today,» she tells Inc. «We're proud of the culture we're creating here and the positive impact we're having on communities around the world.»

A consistent shortage of these temporary work visas prevents U.S. tech companies from hiring the foreign - born scientific and engineering workers they need.

With a background in physics, a decade of engineering wins in the corporate world and an admittedly swollen ego about his own abilities, Laberge became bored with Creo and left in 2001 with a comfortable pile of money from the company's success.

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.

Michael Dell and his financial backers are betting it will be easier to engineer a turnaround without having to pander to the stock market's fixation on whether the company's earnings are growing from one quarter to the next.

Below you can find a graphic from statistics company Statista that ranks the top 10 U.S. cities with the best - paid software engineers.

The company had just 20 employees, almost entirely engineers, and during the first six months of his tenure, Twitter jumped from 5 million registered accounts to 71.3 million.

Such companies say they depend on it to recruit and retain critical engineering talent from around the world.

In November, one of the company's mine engineers in China passed along e-mails he'd received from a representative of Guidepoint Global, a company that gathers competitive intelligence.

It's one of the first steps in the company's signature «Bootcamp,» a six - week introduction to Facebook that all engineers — from new college graduates to coding veterans — must go through.

Loretta Lee, a software engineer who worked at the company from 2008 until she was fired in 2016, filed suit alleging sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

Tech companies from Microsoft Corp to Intel have complained about being unable to find enough highly skilled employees and want Washington to increase the availability of visas for programmers, engineers and other specialized foreign professionals.