Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers
Bryan Helmig, CTO and Co-founder of Zapier, is working with a 100% remote development team since the very beginning of company’s growth. In his interview, Bryan shares his best practices of hiring software engineers he's never met before and working with remote developers distributed all over the world.
The Orange Juice Test (1985)
The key to hiring quality employees is with using the Orange Juice Test, which is designed to sort through candidates based on how they can handle difficult situations and tasks.
A note to our employees
Today, our CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to Google employees about changes we’re making to better support our employees.
Wage Theft is a Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberies, street and highway robberies, and gas station robberies. Employers steal billions of dollars from their employees…
GitHub and Jira Software Integration
New integration enables software teams to connect their code on GitHub.com to their projects on Jira Software Cloud
Microsoft announces Surface Go
Today, Microsoft announces Surface Go: the most portable and affordable Surface product yet.
Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
Does the WordPress Block Editor deliver on its promise of heralding an exciting future for WordPress development?
Evolving the Firefox Brand
Say “Firefox” and most people think of a web browser on their laptop or phone, period. TL;DR, there’s more to the story now, and our branding needs to evolve. With ...
Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
Even though 2017 was a challenging year, thanks to creators like you, it was full of the moments that make YouTube such a special place. Creators large and small, established and emerging, transformed their talent and originality into videos that captivated over a billion people around the world. They made us laugh …
GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
Meltano is an open source tool for the entire data science lifecycle, and we want your contributions and feature requests!
Apple has removed us from the App Store
The RescueTime for iOS app has been temporarily removed from the App Store. This is obviously incredibly disappointing for us and all our users.
Startup Investor School: The Basics of Seed Investing
Last year, for the first time, we taught a MOOC (massively open online course) for startup founders called Startup School. This year, we’re adding a new course called Startup Investor School [https://investor.startupschool.org] which will teach the basics of seed (early) stage startup investing to anyone interested…
Rust in production at Figma
How Mozilla’s new language dramatically improved our server-side performance
Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts
Today, we’re announcing updates to our Free and Pro accounts that mark a new step forward for Flickr. To be candid, we’re driving toward the future of Flickr with one eye on the rearview mirror; we…
The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks
East Wind Nut Butters manufactures premium bulk and wholesale nut & seed butters, including Organic Valencia Peanut Butter, Almond Butter, Cashew Butter, and Organic Tahini for foodservice and private-label partners.
Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
Amazon to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters, and announces Nashville as new Operations Center of Excellence with more than 5,000 jobs.
12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income
$25 million will be given to participants, with no strings attached.
Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds
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