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Amazon announced a return to office mandate that could wind up causing collateral damage to their own bottom line. Here's are four major reasons why.
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When did Agile stop being an optional methodology for developing certain types of software and suddenly become an organization-wide religion?
These are the top reasons why most job seekers don't have a shot at finding the job they want. The reasons are eye-opening. And they might hurt.
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If you leave a visionary "Founder Mode" CEO in charge too long, you wind up with company-wide turmoil that comes with pushing the vision to extremes.
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There are problems with "California Forever." Mostly the kind of problems that are at the forefront of why the hubris tech startup class is hated these days.
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Companies like TikTok know that social media ROI doesn't work unless the sentiment turns negative. That's viral in its worst form, not a value proposition.
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I know who to blame for the dumpster fire that is technology right now. And I can see him coming before he even sits down.
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Ageism should never be accepted, but technology workers allowed management to build it into their career path in return for generally being left alone.
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Bad actors are flooding the hiring system with a sizable volume of fake job postings, resulting in a total lack of trust on both sides of the technology recruiting table.
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A lot of the hype around Generative AI is built on a foundation of being great at doing things that humans are already doing poorly.
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The creator economy has grown massively over the last few years, but here are several questions that need answers if the economy is going to survive.
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It's not that tech employees don't want to do their increasingly difficult and thankless jobs anymore, it's that the tech companies have made it so they can't.
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I'll give you five reasons why work sucks, and I'll shed some light on the ends of those tunnels. Then I'll give you one reason that no one is talking about.
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Until tech companies aggressively and dramatically change the way they hire tech talent, the foundation of their workforce will always be at risk.
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For tech employees, the last five years have felt like perpetual existential dread, due to complex productivity problems in the industry.
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The tech industry must stop treating tech employees like a commodity. Because when they do that, they're creating an expensive mess down the road.
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The threat that AI presents to software developers is not new. Cheap, flawed, technical-debt-inducing code has been a threat to real coders for decades.
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