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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. Recruiting engineers is hard enough, but having to deal with fake/scam candidates makes it that much harder. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Road to Hire to Bring Paid Tech Training and Job Access to Under-Resourced Young Adults (18–25) in…

Austin Startup

Vanessa Baker, an August 2020 Road to Hire graduate, who is now a successful software engineer at Bank of America in Charlotte, said, “The power of Road to Hire to invest in and build the next generation of tech professionals cannot be quantified. The organization looks forward to finding that same sense of community here in Texas. “As

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Top Considerations When Selecting A Cloud Backup Provider

YoungUpstarts

She started her professional career as a software engineer in the Avionics Laboratory at McDonnell Douglas and later worked for Southwestern Bell, ultimately leading a software project for their largest customer at the time – the state government of Texas. Amy Anderson is a principal owner at Anderson Technologies, a St.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Wed, May 10: Innovating in Tech and Quantum Computing (FREE) Join our 100% free speaker series and network with other individuals interested in FinTech, entrepreneurship, technology and startups.

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Acxiom Opens Austin Office, Plans To Hire 150 People

Austin Startup

AcxiomAcxiom Logo, a publicly traded enterprise data, analytics and software-as-a-service company, today announced that it will be opening a new office in Austin, Texas, to accommodate growing demand in its technology, engineering and operations. Enterprise acxiom hiring'

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Joshua Baer & Jason Cohen do this in Austin, Texas. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Think again. Angry Birds?

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, Alex Winkelman Zeplain, Founder of Hello My Tribe, and Autumn Manning , CEO of YouEarnedIt — will open up about their struggles, pressures, and leadership battles to share how they’ve coped and built a community. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

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