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Who’s Hiring Wednesday: February 25, 2015
Top Tech Internships of 2015: How Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Other Giants Rank
GeekWire | Frank Catalano | Feb. 25
“For the best internship experience at a tech company with an interview of only average difficulty, pick Facebook. The social network tops the 2015 ‘25 Highest Rated Companies for Internships’ rankings from Glassdoor. The newly released report, timed for when college students are thinking about summer internships, puts Facebook in the top spot for the second year running. (Facebook debuted in the number one position last year.) Microsoft, which in 2014 was ranked seventh, dropped to 13th in the 2015 report. But it still maintained an overall rating of 4.3 on a five-point scale where 5 is interns reporting they were ‘very satisfied.’ ”
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Microsoft Invests in Bellevue’s Unify Square
Seattle Times | Brier Dudley | Feb. 25
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-partner-unify-square-raises-11-million/
“Microsoft is backing a Bellevue startup – founded by a Microsoft veteran – that’s helping big companies deploy and run Microsoft’s Lync communications platform. Unify Square is announcing today that it raised $8.2 million from Microsoft and angel investors, including former Yahoo, IBM and Ariba executives. It will use the funding to accelerate product development and partnerships with other vendors while expanding its global reach. Unify Square is led by people who helped Microsoft get its start in unified communications. At the startup, they now build their own software-as-a-service products, such as Lync analytics and monitoring tools. “This funding and especially the deepening partnership with Microsoft here allow us to take our formula – our products, our solutions, our services – to basically the entire, worldwide set of Lync customers,” said Sonu Aggarwal, Unify Square’s founder and chief executive….Unify Square has 90 employees, including about 30 in Bellevue. The rest are in Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, India and the United Kingdom. With the new funding the headcount should double in Bellevue and overall, Aggarwal said.”
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5 Lucrative Tech Careers to Pursue in 2015
Mashable | Ritika Trikha | Feb. 25
http://mashable.com/2015/02/22/highest-paid-tech-jobs-2015/
“Most of the highest paying jobs are, naturally, in the root of tech innovation in Silicon Valley…A few up-and-coming tech hubs, like nearby San Francisco, Seattle and even Silicon Beach down in Southern California made it on the list as well. Folks who know how to handle, parse and analyze an overwhelming amount of data will get the fattest paychecks in 2015 — three of the five highest paid jobs are centered on big data…Here are the highest paying jobs and the cities in which they’re located.
- Data Scientist | $150,000 | Seattle, Washington Data scientists are some of the most expensive and coveted professionals around today. “It’s important to note that data mining as it relates to data science is not traditionally taught in university-level computer science curricula,” says Ray Bao, data scientist at CyberCoders.”
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The Rise of the Non-Compete Agreement, From Tech Workers to Sandwich Makers
Washington Post | Lydia DePillis | Feb. 21
“One in four workers have signed such agreements in their lifetime, according to a new working paper, and 12.3 percent of them are bound by one right now…The research, by economists Evan Starr at the University of Illinois and Norman Bishara and JJ Prescott of the University of Michigan…showed that including non-compete clauses in hiring contracts is most widespread in information fields like engineering and architecture, where 30.1 percent of workers had signed one…Starr found in a previous paper that in states with stronger enforcement of non-compete agreements, employees who’ve signed them tend to receive more training, which suggests that non-competes can serve as an incentive to invest in people. That training is a good thing for employees‘ earning potential, although that’s not very useful if they can’t leave for a better offer.”
Who’s Hiring? Engineering Firms Added at Least 400 Engineers in 2014
Puget Sound Business Journal | Stephanie Forshee | Feb. 20
“A number of engineering firms in the area were on a hiring spree this past year. All of the Top 5 firms on the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Top 25 Engineering Firms List grew their employee counts significantly, with a couple of them witnessing extreme growth in the number of engineers they employ…Collectively, the number of licensed engineers at companies that appeared on The List totaled 2,202, up from 1,876 in 2013.”
Slideshow of the Top 5 Engineering Firms in terms of hiring in 2014
Best Buy to Open New Tech Development Center in Seattle with Room for More Than 100 Staffers
GeekWire | John Cook | Feb. 18
“Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is opening a new technology development center in Seattle, joining a legion of technology companies attracted to the region’s engineering talent. The new 32,000 square foot office — located in The Seattle Times building — will be just a few blocks away from Best Buy’s retail rival Amazon.com. It will house about 50 engineers, product managers, web architects and developers in the next year, with room to grow to as many as 100 employees…The company did look at other markets for the tech development center, but it chose Seattle because of its ‘great talent pool’ in e-commrece technologies and ‘thriving tech community,’ said Mary Lou Kelley, president of e-commerce at Best Buy…The office will open in the late Spring, with Best Buy already advertising about 30 open positions. The dev center will complement Best Buy’s engineering staff Minneapolis, where the company employs about 180 e-commerce engineers…The new technology development center will focus on cloud engineering, mobile development and the omnichannel customer experience…Best Buy — with 1,400 stores in the U.S. and 130,000 employees worldwide — is still looking to recruit a site leader for the new office. To help jumpstart the new facility, Best Buy received a $200,000 grant from Gov. Jay Inslee’s strategic reserve fund.”
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Facebook Confirms Big Expansion to Dexter Station, Will Grow to 2,000 Employees
Puget Sound Business Journal | Rachel Lerman | Feb. 18
“Facebook Seattle confirmed Wednesday it was moving its Seattle office to Dexter Station, a soon-to-be-completed office tower at 1101 Dexter Ave. N. The interior of the company’s offices will be designed by Frank Gehry, a renowned architect known for designing landmarks such as the EMP Museum and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Facebook will more than double its Seattle office footprint with the move. The company has signed a lease for 274,000 square feet in the building, with an option to lease an additional 62,000 square feet. Facebook Seattle, which now has more than 500 employees and is growing rapidly, will relocate from its office in the Metropolitan Park East tower 1730 Minor Ave., in early 2016.”
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Bill Gates-backed Company Eyes Historic Skagit Country Hospital Site for Major Expansion
Puget Sound Business Journal | Marc Stiles | Feb. 17
“Janicki Bioenergy is proposing to turn the historic Northern State Hospital site in Sedro-Woolley into a research-and-development facility where as many as 1,000 people could work in the next five years. Janicki is the company behind a clean-water OmniProcessor technology that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is backing, and the company plans to develop other sanitation and energy technologies…With funding from the Gates Foundation, Janicki Bioenergy is hiring 65 people this year and has big plans for the property that operated as a mental hospital until closing in 1973. The company wants to break ground on the R&D facility by the end of the year.”
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