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This Developer Role is Supposedly America's Best Job
What are the best jobs in America, and how many of them are in tech? That’s a hard question to answer—after all, it hinges on your definition of a “best job”—but Glassdoor recently took a stab at… -
Is the Quant Boom in Fintech Turning into the Quant Bust?
As demand for quants increased at banks and hedge funds in recent years, so too the number of Masters courses in quantitative finance proliferated wildly. A year into the COVID pandemic, however,… -
VMware Layoffs Will Hit Relatively Few Employees
VMware is laying off a small portion of its workforce, according to reports. In a confirmation to CRN, the cloud-and-virtualization company suggested that the layoffs were part of a workforce-reb… -
Activision Blizzard Faces Diversity Hiring Controversy
Tech companies make a big deal of their diversity efforts. The largest of them, including Google and Microsoft, issue regular reports that detail their progress in diversifying their workforces.… -
Weekend Roundup: Robinhood, Reddit, and the Big Market Meltdown
It was quite a wild week in tech, with various worlds (mobile apps, financial markets, data and privacy) colliding in unexpected ways. Robinhood and Reddit unleashed a historic week for Wall Stre… -
New Legislation Could Change H-1B, Spare H-4 EAD
In one of his first actions as President, Joe Biden is pushing for legislation that will give work authorization to the dependents of H-1B visa workers, among other provisions. The U.S. Citizensh… -
Robinhood Stock-Trading App Could Pay Off for Its Software Engineers
Stock-trading app Robinhood is changing how many people buy equities—and in doing so, potentially injecting some volatility into the stock market. Inspired by chatter on Twitter and Reddit, Robin… -
Top 10 Cities for STEM Professional Opportunities and Quality of Life
When it comes to professional opportunities and quality of life, which cities are best for technologists and other STEM professionals? That’s a difficult question, but WalletHub takes a stab at a… -
Kafka or Python: Which Is Better to Learn for Finance Developer Jobs?
If you want to work in a data engineering role at an investment bank, it's not enough to be an expert in Python or R: You also need experience with the sorts of platforms and programming language… -
Amazon Adding Technologists to Boston Technology Hub
Amazon is adding 3,000 more employees to its Boston Tech Hub, where they’ll join 3,700 technologists already at work on a number of technology initiatives, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Am…