Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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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… -
Ageism in Job Interviewing: How to Face It Down
Ageism remains a pervasive issue in tech. It’s not unusual for job candidates over the age of 40 to tweak their applications and CVs to appear younger, and there are many reports of “salary ceili… -
Did Open Offices Backfire on the Modern Business?
Cubicles might have started out as a good idea theory, but in practice, between the isolation and long expanse of grey walls, they have driven generations of office works into depths of despair.… -
32 Tech Certification Categories: Which Pay the Most?
Certifications take a lot of time and money to earn, and you hope the payoff is worth it. Oftentimes, it is; numerous studies show that earning one or more certifications translates into a signif… -
Is Alphabet’s DeepMind in Deep, Deep Trouble?
DeepMind, the A.I.-centric subsidiary of Alphabet, is bleeding money: last year, it lost $571 million, according to the Financial Times. If that wasn’t enough, it owes its corporate parent roughl… -
Die, Desserts! Google Changes Sugary Android Naming Scheme
Well, it happened: Google finally ran out of cutesy dessert code-names for each new Android build. The next version of Android will simply be known as “Android 10.” And honestly, that’s something… -
Open Office Design: How Do We Make It Better for Workers?
Cubicles might have started out as a good idea, but the implementation (gray, soulless boxes stretching as far as the eye can see) has driven generations of office workers into the depths of desp… -
Waymo Opens Self-Driving Dataset to Researchers
Let’s say you’re a tech professional who’s really interested in autonomous driving. It hasn’t quite gotten to the point where you’ve stuck some sensors onto your Toyota and researched onboard pro…