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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

These emerging market economies are now tired of being mere producers of “Designed in California” products and are starting to invest in innovation. Oracle, the maker of business hardware and software, is an example of a broader trend in the US high-tech industry. Rigid union contracts constrain salaries, work schedules and promotions.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

Because Netscape was where, at the time, there was the greatest concentration of smart people designing the future I knew I wanted to be a part of. It’s not just a salary issue. In retrospect, I really should have been trying to get a job at Netscape. Whatever its title was. Whatever it paid. So how do you adapt to it?