Articles by Nick Kolakowski

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  Java, JavaScript Top Languages Tested by Employers

  If you’ve been applying for developer jobs, you’ve no doubt faced a number of coding tests. While many developers and engineers don’t think coding tests are a good way of demonstrating the skills…
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  Top 25 Tech Skills Employers are Hiring for Right Now

  Which technologist skills do employers want at the moment? It’s clear that, as we head into 2021, companies everywhere still have a powerful hunger for professionals who can manage products, work…
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  Top 20 Employers Hiring Technologists Include Healthcare, E-Commerce

  For many people, we’re approaching one year in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past few quarters, businesses have adjusted their planning and models, then adjusted them again; emp…
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  Java Developer Salary: 5 Burning Questions Answered

  Java has managed to hold a prime spot in developers’ minds for 25+ years, and it’s easy to see why. For starters, Java benefits from a “write once, run anywhere” (WORA) design, which means it can…
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  Is Technologist Mental Health Suffering at Tech's Biggest Companies?

  Mental health has emerged as a key issue for many technologists during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Even those who initially looked forward to full-time remote work have wrestled with the isolation. I…
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  Majority of Technologists Prefer Hybrid Work Schedule Over All-Remote

  As companies debate the best way to return employees to the office full-time, a new survey suggests that a majority of technologists really want a hybrid work model. That insight comes from Blind…
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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…
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  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…
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  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.…
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  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…