Part of the WTIA’s mission is to grow a strong and sustainable workforce, which means we’re passionate about keeping local talent plugged into our state’s technology industry.

 

Apple Hiring for Mysterious New Engineering Office in Seattle

GeekWire | Taylor Soper | Nov. 3

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/apple-opening-engineering-office-seattle/

The Cupertino-based company confirmed the new location with GeekWire after we published a report on the new office Monday morning, following leads of two job openings that Apple posted this past weekend for engineers interested in working at an office in Seattle. It’s unclear where Apple is opening the physical office in Seattle — we’ve contacted the company for details — but there are at least 30 engineers already working for Apple in the area, according to LinkedIn.

 

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Amazon Hiring Former CIOs to Help Sell More Enterprise Cloud Computing Products

GeekWire | Taylor Soper | Oct. 29

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-hiring-cios/

Amazon is courting former chief information officers in an effort to bring in more enterprise cloud computing business. The Wall Street Journal reported on the pattern, which includes the recent hiring of former Dow Jones & Co. CIO Stephen Orban, Amazon’s new head of enterprise strategy at Amazon Web Services, and former Schumacher Group CIO Douglas Menefee, who came to Amazon as an enterprise CIO advisor in March. The new employees come to Amazon as its battles companies like Microsoft, Google, and others to attract new customers to their different cloud platforms. Earlier this month, Microsoft hired a veteran of Amazon’s retail business, Suresh Kumar, as its new corporate vice president in charge of cloud infrastructure and operations.

 

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Where the Data Science Jobs Are, by Sector and by State

GigaOM | Alex Salkever, Silk | Nov. 2

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/02/where-the-data-science-jobs-are-by-sector-and-by-state/

As the tech capital of the planet, California dominates the U.S. hiring market for data scientists. Just above 28 percent of all data science job postings were put up by companies located in the Golden State, according to the CrowdFlower numbers. New York is the next in line but far behind, with only 13 percent of the postings. This is a bit surprising considering the Wall Street juggernaut, but it’s important to remember that New York only has one technology center while California has multiple ones, including San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. Washington, powered by Microsoft and Amazon, was a distant third and Texas fourth, driven by energy sector jobs. But the data science hiring market has a long tail with Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia all showing significant data science hiring markets.

 

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Technology Taking over Some Washington Apple Jobs

Yakima Herald | Ross Courtney | Oct. 27

http://www.yakimaherald.com/home/2597242-8/employment-spotlight-packing-houses-seek-skilled-labor#print

Replacing human labor with equipment is a constant in any industry, but the trend has surged in the past three or four years among Yakima Valley packing firms. Companies such as Allan Brothers and Valicoff Fruit have installed new lines through which apples zip at double, triple or quadruple the rate of the previous lines, which relied more on hand sorters. Infrared scanners take hundreds of pictures per minute, evaluating the color, size and sugar content of apples both inside and out. That sophistication may require fewer hands, but those hands must be more skilled. “That isn’t simply a camera you plug in …,” said Miles Kohl, executive director of Allan Bros. in Naches. “You have to train that camera and software to do what you want it to do.” While packing houses are hiring fewer packers and sorters, they are adding skilled technicians with training in programmable logic, Internet technology, refrigeration and mechanics.

 

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