Articles by Dice Staff
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How to Get Hired by Cloudera
Cloudera, a Palo Alto, Calif., open source Big Data platform provider, offers Hadoop-based software support and services. Four years old and privately owned, the company guards its internal infor… -
Pro Baseball Streaming Moves to Omaha
Major League Baseball will soon be coming from Omaha—or rather, the 1.5 million gigabytes of live and recorded video it produces every year (and 4.5 million gigabytes of other content) will be co… -
Ford Expands Hiring For Engineers, IT Specialists
Ford has expanded the number of salaried workers it plans to hire this year by 800, bringing the total to 3,000. About 80 percent of these positions are for engineers and IT specialists. Most wil… -
Telecommuting Increases Employee Engagement
The opportunity to telecommute can increase the engagement level of employees, according to a report from research firm Gallup. As reported in its State of the American Workplace: Employee Engage… -
Zynga Drops U.S. Gambling Games, Jobs at Stake?
Zynga’s bet on real-money gambling turned into a bust this week, with the company announcing it was dropping its plans to pursue it in the U.S. and would continue to evaluate its pilot test in th… -
Perks Don't Always Correlate With Employee Retention
Despite the conventional wisdom, free food and other lavish perks don’t always equal employee retention. In fact, workers at several tech giants are likely to bolt after just a year on the job. A… -
Layoffs at Spirit AeroSystems
Spirit AeroSystems announced Thursday it is laying off approximately 360 salaried support and management personnel. The affected employees, according to Reuters, reportedly includes engineers and… -
Tech Jobs: Athenahealth, GoDaddy, Tripobox
Our weekly snapshot of tech jobs: Who’s hiring and who’s firing across the IT landscape. HIRING Cloud-based health information technology company athenahealth is planning to hire 1,900 new employ… -
Blueprints Show Limits to NSA Mega-Datacenter
[caption id="attachment_11200" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The NSA's Utah facility, according to documents obtained by Forbes.[/caption] The NSA's new mega-datacenter facility in southern Ut… -
In Seattle, It's All About Software Development
What's New This Quarter T.J. Doton, Managing Director of recruiting firm Randstad Technologies in Seattle/Bellevue, has some good news: Overall unemployment in the region has hit its lowest level…