The technology industry’s panicked rush to lay off employees, in fear of impact from the economy, is starting to hit Southern California. The latest: Veoh – 20 employees, or approximately 18-20 percent of its staff. THQ – 250 employees, 17 percent. Spot Runner – 115 employees, 30 percent. Break.com – 11 employees. Mahalo – 10 [...]
I don’t know how many people remember the “pink slip parties” during the Internet bust, which were various networking events designed to help the many people who had been laid off. Interestingly enough, there’s a group starting up a new networking group (Pink Slip Mixers) in Santa Monica, which is the first group of that [...]
I’ve been rather amused to read a number of job posts today from startup companies that describe themselves as “pre-IPO” in trying to attract employees. Given the news today that there were no IPOs in Q2 of this year, it appears that in reality most of the technology startup world is in a permanent “pre-IPO” [...]
With as much talk (and evidence) of a slowdown in the economy, it’s surprising how many recruiters and companies I have run into recently who still have a lot of trouble finding technical staff to fill open positions at their companies. In particular, I find there are lots of companies who are desperate to fill [...]
Looking for a job at a high tech company here? It looks like there’s plenty of demand–here’s some of the latest Southern California technology jobs on our job board: Director of Network Operations, inQ, Agoura Hills Director of Search Engine Optimization, Santa Monica Web Development Lead, Practice Technologies Associate, Momentum Venture Management Our job board [...]
socalTECH has a very active job board, where we let people who are members of our premium service post unlimited numbers of positions, and I’m constantly amazed by the amount of demand out there for technical talent. In particular, there seems to be a lot of demand for software engineers in the Los Angeles area, [...]
Google just posted an interesting article to the company’s blog on the company’s stance on H-1B visas, the visa that allows highly skilled, foreign born workers to enter the U.S. The company argues for an increase in the currently 65,000 H-1B slots (which were filled in the first two days they were open this year), [...]
BoingBoing today highlights an interesting program that looks to train computer programmers to become journalists, in a grant program which gives computer programmers a master degree in Journalism. Given the hand wringing over widespread cost cutting and layoffs in the newspaper industry (the latest being the San Francisco Chronicle), and with offshore outsourcing both reducing [...]
Tony Karrer, CTO of TechEmpower, recently started a new blog on being a CTO in Southern California. He has served as CTO of eHarmony, and talks in a recent post about the difficulty of finding good developers in Los Angeles. Also, another pointer to a blog that might be of interest to Southern California technology/business [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
