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Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty. The potential for deep cuts in federal research funding, as well as tax legislation affecting our endowment income, has now been added to existing concerns related to rapid growth and cost escalations. It…
The Ultimate Productivity Paradox
How we built an engineering culture based on trust that allows us to move incredibly fast without requiring code reviews.
Employees are quitting in droves. Learn what's fueling the mass job change.
We've all received a work email that made us cringe - the ones that sound formal and threatening or vaguely like a punishment for something we're pretty
When you say "rock star" in your job post, you're discouraging the best software developers from contacting you. When you write, "We're looking for a rock star developer." A developer sees, "We...
“Why?” is my favorite question because it illuminates relationships between cause and effect. And when we ask this question more than once we expose even deeper causal relationships. Unfortunately,…
Possibly because your boss is an idiot.
Faire’s engineering team grew from five to over 100 engineers in three years. Throughout this growth, we were able to sustain our pace of engineering execution by adhering to four guiding principles.
Campus recruiting marches on, and companies keep doing the same thing expecting different results. So what can companies do differently?
With apprenticeship programs, government and the private sector can partner to train and reskill workers – and meet the challenges of 4IR.
Widom, an innovator in engineering education, taught one of Stanford’s first MOOCs.
Rather than technology alone, it's the practices, processes, and culture changes DevOps introduces that can most positively impact your software delivery.
Hello Windows Insiders I’ve now spent the past two months in this expanded role leading the Windows Insider Program. Two themes hav
YC has a bunch of announcements about people coming and going so I thought I’d do them all at once. Wufoo (YC W06) cofounder Kevin Hale is joining us as a partner. He was the force behind Wufoo’s much-admired design, and speaks widely about UX. Between Kevin and Garry Tan, we’ll now have two partners who are…
Monitoring employees in the name of productivity or security can cause a lot more problems than it solves.
DURHAM, N.C. – Company loyalty is a double-edged sword, according to a new study. Managers target loyal workers over less committed colleagues when doling out unpaid work and additional job tasks.
