Articles by Dice Staff
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Always Come to the Job Interview With Questions
There are lots of ways to mess up a job interview: Badmouthing a former employer or colleagues, getting excessively personal, arguing with the people in HR, and inflating your skill set. But a tr… -
For Developers, Startups Could Equal Big Salaries
Conventional wisdom suggests that, if you want to make truly big money as a developer or programmer, you should head to the biggest possible firm. On the surface, such advice makes sense: Who has… -
Building Your Tech Skills Without Quitting Your Job
Whatever your current position, continuing to grow your technical skills is crucial to landing your dream job over the next few years. But very few of us have jobs that afford the extracurricular… -
How to Live Down a Project Failure
If you’re on a project team that’s experienced a high-profile project failure, you’re probably wondering how you can live it down. Big projects suffer from scope creep, cost and time overruns, di… -
Self-Evaluate Before Salary Negotiations
Salary negotiations are a tricky business, and it always pays to do a little self-evaluation before entering into one. Every candidate has a long list of skills and experience that can help boost… -
Is This a Good Time to Become a Consultant?
If you’ve toyed with the idea of becoming a consultant, this could be a good time to make your move. With the economy improving and tech employers facing far more projects than there are professi… -
Are You Paid Less Than Your Co-Workers?
Salary is a touchy subject. Finding out that someone on your team is paid more can easily lead to disgruntlement, and it’s not like you can march into your boss’s office and start yelling about i… -
How We Data-Mine Related Tech Skills
One of the earliest and most interesting data science projects we’ve embarked on is automatically learning which professional skills relate to one another, based on our data. For instance, if som… -
SXSW: Do Androids Dream of Being You?
Digital-assistant software such as Siri and Google Now has become progressively more mainstream over the past few years, showcasing some significant gains in the field of artificial intelligence.… -
Is Your Recruiter Legitimate, Or Just Filling a Quota?
Recruiter spam is so ubiquitous that there’s even an entire Website devoted to collecting data on it. It’s easy to tell when a recruiter is just spamming developers with the wrong jobs. But not a…