Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Machine Learning Engineers: How Much Can They Make?
Machine learning is one of the hottest topics in tech at the moment. Companies are hungry to hire professionals with machine-learning knowledge, even if it costs them quite a bit more than a “sta… -
New Fee for H-1B Applications Hints at Tightening Program
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) wants to institute a $10 registration fee for each H-1B visa application. The agency claims that the added money will allow it to better “adjudic… -
Is PHP Entering a Death Spiral? TIOBE Thinks So.
At a quarter-century old, PHP is one of those stalwart programming languages, widely used by web developers despite some much-publicized complaints (“a fractal of bad design,” in the words of one… -
Elon Musk Wants You to Learn Soft Skills to Keep Your Job
Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks you should work on your “soft skills,” especially if you want to keep your job in the face of increasingly sophisticated automation. “A.I. will make jobs kind of pointl… -
Cost Cutting: Which Tech Companies Are Slicing Away?
Are tech companies strategically cost-cutting, perhaps in anticipation of a recession? It seems so, according to a recent (anonymous) survey of tech professionals by Blind. Although Blind’s surve… -
Are AR and VR Job Interviews Part of Your Future?
Can virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) change how companies recruit and hire tech pros? Imagine a future in which a recruiter virtually shows you around an office, or an interviewer… -
Can Alexa and Other Digital Assistants Conquer Businesses?
Digital assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri are becoming more ubiquitous in the consumer space, but businesses remain a largely untapped (and tempting) target for the technology. O… -
Enterprise Software Engineers: A Lucrative Career Path
Many budding software engineers don’t want to work for a massive enterprise firm. They might think that building business-to-business (B2B) apps and services is boring, or perhaps they don’t want… -
Recruiting Engineers for Tech Startups
As any hiring manager or recruiter knows, mid-level engineers with highly specialized skillsets tend to have their pick of jobs. Some of those engineers want to work for giant companies—either be… -
Jack Ma: You’ll Thank A.I. for That Ultra-Short Workweek
Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma thinks that artificial intelligence (A.I.) will allow humans to work 12-hour workweeks. Ma made that statement while sharing a stage with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Wor…