Archive for the 'Valley' Category

Commentary: Changing Jobs

Some of my friends have recently change job.  No big deal, happens all the time in Silicon Valley.   Not everyone blogs about it.  In the comments, one of my other friends, who happens to have also changed his job recently, posted a link to “inspiring corporate confidence“.  It’s a little hard to follow (like […]

Working Class Millionaires

Silicon Valley is full of them: People with very high net worth (compared to the rest of the country… and the world) but still work 12+ hours days.
Yet the same drive that earned so many of the engineers and entrepreneurs who live here their fortunes keeps them tied to the Valley, which resembles nothing so […]

Comic: The interview

I can’t believe we’ve gone this long without a link to a Dilbert comic.

Link: Mistakes that can kill your career

File this under common sense.  This could also be called: how to be professional.  This article is a bit light on the details, but it’s accurate in a general sense.  The two points that people should look as real personal drivers are #7 and 8.
7. Fearing Risk or Failure
If you don’t believe in yourself, […]

Link: Getting a Job in Silicon Valley

Guy Kawasaki writes “Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn’t Know Who to Ask“. This is tailored a little more to a more experienced engineer. Taken with a grain of salt (as just about everything you read on the Internet, including this site), this is a […]

The Journal says… Silicon Valley is still hot

An article from the Wall Street Journal is saying that Silicon Valley is (again) the place for “High Skilled” workers.  It’s a bit of a fluff piece, but there are some good bits of information.
Silicon Valley’s changing employment makeup does have its downside. Wages are once again creeping up, making it more expensive to do […]