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68% of Tech Employees: Violent Content Needs More Moderation on Social Media

Depending on your perspective, violence in the media, including online content, is a huge problem or it’s more of an accepted but obnoxious aspect of the digital age. We’ve all heard of the research studies focused on exposure to violence in movies and TV shows. Many of us

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36% of Techies OK Breaking Up Big Tech Companies

Presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren, released a plan to break up tech giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook and impose severe restrictions. She argued that these near-trillion dollar corporations have the ability to sell products on the platforms they also own, which eliminates competition. Her plan to appoint government

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40% of Tech Workers Experienced Workplace Retaliation

Unfortunately, retaliation is one of most common workplace discrimination claims in the United States. Employees who file complaints about inappropriate behavior in the workplace like sexual harassment or racial discrimination sometimes are subjected to punishment from their employers like being fired, demoted or being moved to different work teams. Employees

Spotify Careers: What You Need to Know

Spotify Careers: What You Need to Know

Spotify careers span a wide range of roles: engineering, content, analytics, product management, business development, design, HR, Legal and more. Work on Spotify began in 2006 when Swedish entrepreneur Daniel Ek decided to try to create a music platform to stream music while providing some revenues to the music industry.

Lyft Careers: What You Need to Know

Lyft Careers: What You Need to Know

Lyft careers span a wide range of different roles: engineering, marketing, product, people, legal, business, driver operations, finance, regulatory, risk solutions and more. The company was started partially to solve the shared ride problem of not knowing the driver or passenger if you used a website like Craigslist to find

Salesforce Careers: What You Need to Know

Salesforce Careers: What You Need to Know

Salesforce careers cover a wide range of roles: engineering, sales, marketing, product, finance, legal, IT and more. Founded in 1999, Salesforce now has slightly over 30,000 employees and generates billions in annual revenues. The company’s main headquarters are in San Francisco. There is also a regional headquarters in

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Most Tech Workers Can’t Afford to Buy a Home in San Francisco or Seattle

San Francisco or Manhattan has the highest median home prices in the US depending on which sources you use. In San Francisco that figure may be as high as $1.6 million dollars. In fact, MarketWatch just published an article about how you could buy a whole town in the