13 posts and columns on recruiting

News Byte

Twitter Pairs With UC Berkeley for Big Data 10

in Social on May 2 at 5:30 am PT

The University of California at Berkeley plans to offer a class on big data to its undergraduate students during the coming fall semester, focused specifically on data analysis as applied to Twitter’s never-ending flow of information. In the company’s first official joint effort with a higher-ed institution, Twitter engineers will advise students throughout the semester-long course. Enrollees will have access to some company data, and an opportunity to present a project at Twitter HQ at the end of the term.

Watch: Twitter’s Cheeky Infomercial to Recruit Job Applicants

in Social on January 27 at 6:14 pm PT

In an industry full of earnest nerds, Twitter hopes workplace humor is a selling point.
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What Now? Hiring.

in Voices on January 19 at 5:40 pm PT

Hiring takes planning and time, and the process is often ad hoc or simply nonexistent. Don’t make hiring a batting average.

eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

in Commerce on January 12 at 6:00 am PT

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.
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At Apple, Cloud Experts Wanted

in Voices on November 23, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Apple Inc. has been taking small but important steps toward a shift in the way its customers access their digital content beyond the downloadable software that has been vital to the company’s success.

CaptainU Builds the Mint.com for Student Athletes

in News on November 20, 2011 at 9:15 am PT

The path from high school sports superstar to college scholarship MVP can be a treacherous one. CaptainU — a start-up built by former collegiate athletes — helps navigate it.
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Meet-Ups Polish Up Their Acts

in Social on August 4, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Technology meet-ups are taking on a professional sheen. As the latest technology boom has gathered steam, meet-ups have proliferated and taken on more importance in the industry.

AMD Hires Its New CIO Away From Hewlett-Packard

in Enterprise on March 21, 2011 at 4:20 pm PT

Intel’s not the only company trying to woo executives away from Hewlett-Packard. Rival AMD just had better luck. Michael Wolf, HP’s VP for Information Technology and former CIO at Freescale, is joining AMD amid its ongoing difficult search for a new CEO.

OutCast Agency Head Joins Facebook as Tech Communications Lead

in News on March 17, 2011 at 4:54 pm PT

Caryn Marooney, the co-founder of one of Silicon Valley’s premier tech communications firms, OutCast Agency, is joining Facebook to lead its tech public relations strategy. Marooney has actually led the Facebook account for OutCast, which she and Margit Wennmachers built and sold to Next Fifteen Communications Group in 2005 for over $10 million.

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Talent War Crunches Start-Ups

in News on February 28, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Internet start-ups across Silicon Valley are struggling to compete for talent amid the investment frenzy gripping Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Zynga Inc., with many smaller companies beefing up pay and recruiting and wading into the private-company share market to keep pace with their larger rivals.

Former Google China Head–and Now Start-up Whisperer–Kai-Fu Lee Talks Innovation (Works)

in News, September 7, 2010 at 8:10 am PT

Dear Disgruntled Yahoos, Microsoft Is Hiring!

in News, June 18, 2008 at 1:58 pm PT