Seattle tech salaries among highest in U.S., when adjusted for housing

Casey Coombs | Puget Sound Business Journal | 16 August 2016

“San Francisco has the highest average tech salary at $113,497, with Seattle ranked fifth at $98,215.

After cost of living adjustments, however, Seattle ranks second at $91,242, just ahead of third-ranked San Francisco at $90,457. Austin, Texas, averaging $95,247, tops the list.

The reason: housing costs.”

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Expedia launches new website to lure customers, potential hires

Ashley Stewart | Puget Sound Business Journal | 16 August 2016

“Maintaining a reputation as an innovator in the online travel space could not only help Expedia win customers, but job candidates. The new Expedia Labs website prominently features a link to job postings. It currently has 507 job listings on the site for open Expedia jobs around the world.”

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Apple rumored to be taking a big bite out of Seattle-area office market with potential expansion

Nat Levy | Geekwire | 12 August 2016

“Multiple sources told GeekWire that Apple may be considering properties in downtown Bellevue, including Schnitzer West’s 16-story Centre 425 building, which is under construction and set to open later this year. Assuming standard corporate leasing ratios of approximately 150 to 250 square feet per employee, approximately 1,400 to 2,300 people could work out of the 354,000 square feet of office space in the building.”

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Inside Pinterest’s new Seattle hub: How the company is trying to stand out in a sea of engineering centers

Taylor Soper | Geekwire | 12 August 2016

Mukund Narasimhan is a well-traveled tech industry veteran, having worked as an engineer at places like Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google.

Now he’s taking on a leadership role at Pinterest, heading up its new Seattle engineering office and helping the content-sharing company solve some of the toughest technology challenges he’s seen yet.

Narasimhan joined four other Pinterest engineers who traveled from the company’s Bay Area headquarters to Seattle on Thursday to host an invite-only recruiting event that educated attendees about the types of challenges and projects that Pinterest employees tackle everyday.

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Zenoti Raises $15 Million in Second Round Funding

Joanna Kresge | 425 Business | 11 August 2016

“Zenoti announced a $15 million Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners today.

The cloud-based salon and spa management software company currently serves more than 5,000 wellness outlets world-wide, providing a one-stop platform for client scheduling, gift card distribution/redemption, employee time tracking, and payroll…

The capital from this second round of funding will allow Zenoti to expand their market share, drive production innovation, and add approximately 100 new employees to their world-wide talent pool.”

Check out current openings at Zenoti.

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