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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

Hiring AI talent US IT staffing firm Motion Recruitment found that AI engineers saw over a 12% growth in salaries compared to a year ago, and mid-level workers saw a 20% increase. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting.

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5 machine learning essentials nontechnical leaders need to understand

TechCrunch

For this piece, I interviewed a select group of successful ML leaders including Sambhus; Lior Gavish , co-founder at Monte Carlo; and Yotam Hadass , VP of engineering at Electric.ai, for their insights. ML recruiting strategy. Recruiting for ML comes with several challenges. Image Credits: Snehal Kundalkar.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing technical debt, IPO analysis, your first comms hire

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Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? And accumulate.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. The company has 15 employees so far and is looking to hire around half a dozen high-end engineers.

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Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

TechCrunch

In the software industry, observability tools provide businesses insights on the health of their production apps. Masar, who serves as Better Stack’s CEO, said that the funding will be put toward hiring with the goal of expanding the team from 14 to about 30 people by the end of the year. But rarely is it this simple.

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54gene valuation slashed by over $100M amid job cuts and CEO exit

TechCrunch

In August, it sacked 95 employees , mostly contract staff (in labs and sales departments) hired to work in 54gene’s COVID business line launched in 2020. In September, co-founder and VP of Engineering Ogochukwu Francis Osifo left the company. It’s been a strange couple of months at African genomics startup 54gene.

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