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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

From my perspective, as someone that runs a company specializing in hiring high-quality remote engineers, matching people with opportunities, and managing remote teams, there are three key drivers. The fact that the Internet and remote work apps are finally fast and robust enough that near-seamless remote collaboration is possible.

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What Do Web Developers Do Exactly?

YoungUpstarts

They make the internet the useful tool it is. Developers need to work with engineers, sales and marketing staff, customer support staff, and even CEOs and other executives so they need to understand far more than how to code a website. A web developer created every website you read, social network you belong to, and web app you use.

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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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The One Thing That is Dragging Your Business Behind

YoungUpstarts

If it were that easy, SEO experts wouldn’t spend years of learning and practice just to gain a few tips that they would have learnt by reading a few blogs on the internet. . Search engine optimization (SEO) is technical. You will need to pay high salaries and incur the cost of buying all relevant SEO tools. . You know why?

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5 Cost-Cutting Strategies That May Cause You to Spend More

Up and Running

When paying employees becomes too expensive, many companies either lay people off or keep their workers but reduce salaries. First, reducing salaries or offering inadequate compensation turns away talented applicants and discourages your current staff. Instead of reducing salaries, think about changing your payment structure.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. These costs are largely fixed.