Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Facebook, Google Tumble as Best Places to Work
Yet again, Glassdoor has issued its annual list of the best places to work, and yet again, a handful of tech companies made the upper echelons of the list. However, there’s one big change from la… -
Google's Flutter 1.0 Aims to Streamline Android, iOS Development
This week, Google announced Flutter 1.0, the “first stable release” of its UI framework for building native interfaces in iOS and Android. “With Flutter, we believe we have a solution that gives… -
Technical Debt and Bad Code Have a Bigger Impact Than You Think
Bad code isn’t just a problem for developers to solve whenever they’ve cleared other tasks from their queue—it has a measurable impact on company profitability, according to a recent study by Str… -
Will a Longer Résumé Kill Your Chances of Landing That Interview?
One page or two? That’s a surprisingly active source of debate when it comes to résumé-writing. Earlier this year, résumé-writing service ResumeGo conducted a survey of recruiters and hiring mana… -
Five Years Later, Where are the Amazon Delivery Drones?
Five years ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled what many expected to become the future of product delivery: small drones capable of carrying up to five pounds’ worth of cargo. But Amazon’s high-t… -
Steam Lowering Its Cut of Developer Revenues... for the Richest
First, some good news for game developers as a whole: Valve is lowering its cut of developer revenues on the Steam network. For those developers with Steam-related sales between $10 million and $… -
Trump Administration Formally Offers H-1B Lottery Changes
For the past few months, publications that watch the federal government (such as Politico) have reported rumors that something big is in the works for H-1B reform. Those big changes could arrive… -
Cloud Skills Gap Makes Companies Desperate for Tech Pros
Businesses have embraced cloud services as a way to get what they need without loading up on in-house infrastructure. That’s great for achieving operational goals while saving money, but it might… -
Computer Programmer Salary: Big Payouts for the Right Skills
The term “computer programmer” is rather broad. These days, what’s a “computer”? The phone in your pocket owns that term just as much as the laptop on your desk; does that mean “mobile developer”… -
Do You Need to Meet Every Requirement in a Job Posting?
Do you need to meet all of the requirements in a job posting? That’s an excellent question, and a point of pretty extensive debate among tech pros and recruiters. According to a new TalentWorks s…