Articles by Dice Staff

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  The Pros and Cons of Marissa Mayer, CEO

  Yahoo has named Google executive Marissa Mayer as its new CEO. While Mayer's definitely a seasoned Internet executive -- most recently, she oversaw Google's local, maps and location services -- s…
• SAP HANA's Sales Bode Well for Data, Analytics Specialists

  SAP is placing a big bet on its in-memory database platform SAP HANA and, as a result, its hundreds of thousands of customers may too. And though the platform's only been on the market for a year…
• Best Buy Cutting 600 Geek Squad Positions, Hiring For Thousands More

  Yes, you read that right. Best Buy is laying off 2,400 retail workers, including 600 members of its Geek Squad service team, as of Aug. 1. At the same time, the company is looking to fill other G…
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  What Rackspace Looks for in Job Candidates

  Based in a converted shopping mall in San Antonio, Rackspace strives to maintain a culture based on “mutual respect and transparency” as it continues its rapid growth. A leading provider of manag…
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  AT&T Foundry Wants Engineers Who Are 'Innovation Drivers'

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mAQ9DMmWb8&w=560&h=349] While originally coming from the world of startups, James Kyle was looking to join a company that would allow him to be agile in s…
• The Rise of In-Memory Databases

  For more years than anyone can remember, the relationship between databases and disk drives has been one of mutual dependency. Without access to robust I/O systems, database systems simply can’t…
• Gates and Zuckerberg Dropped Out, But You Shouldn't

  Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard. Michael Dell dropped out of the University of Texas. Larry Ellison dropped out of the University of Illinois. Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed…
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  Top IT Talent Snagged In a Week or Less

  San Francisco and Silicon Valley are two very intense IT job markets. If an employer doesn’t move fast enough, then it's too late. In the time it takes for a prospective candidate to go through f…
• The Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Management Challenge

  [caption id="attachment_2233" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Back in the day, data only came on paper, and companies could place that paper in convenient files. Those days are long over.[/capti…
• Seven Ways to Handle Really Hard Technical Interview Questions

  It's the job you really want. You are nervous, but have studied, prepped and researched. Then it happens – one of the interviewers asks you a hard question and you don’t know the answer. Should y…