Welcome to CyberCoders' Weekly Roundup! Every week, we handpick the top five stories from around the web that offer great insight into hiring in the tech industry.
1. This 19-Year-Old Developer is So Successful, He Turned Down Apple (Business Insider)
Here's a dose of inspiration for you. Attending conferences since he was 16-years-old, John Meyer's portfolio includes 40 apps, mostly through his app company TapMedia.
"The company asked him to become an intern, he says. That's a dream come true for most students. And it pays. Apple interns can make $5,723 a month." His response? "I am, at heart, an entrepreneur. I won’t be happy working for someone else."
2. How to Negotiate Anything [LinkedIn Pulse]
If you have a hard time trying to ask for more, this post is a great break down on getting what you want. This Q&A with Molly Fletcher (nicknamed 'the female Jerry Maguire') says most employers expect an initial counteroffer.
"It's really important to prepare for negotiations, but they rarely go exactly as planned...In any negotiation, people want to know: Do I like you? Can you help me? Do I trust you? If the answer to these questions is “yes,” then you have put yourself in a good position to negotiation."
3. How Google is Trying to Rid itself of Secret Sexism [QZ]
Google knows it has a diversity problem. Here are a few things they're trying to do to fix it.
- Testing more than 26,000 employees for unconscious bias in a workshop. It's called an Implicit Association Test, which measures just how unconsciously biased you are.
- Changing up the names of some of the walls and doors to include as many females as men.
- Calling it as you see it.
4. How Top Startups Pay Designers [GV]
Lowballing an employee isn't beneficial to anyone. "He personally felt undervalued and he worried that the company’s culture might underrate design generally."Daniel Burka, design partner at Google Ventures, analyzed a few sites that offer public salary information. Here's what he found:
- Senior UX Designer: $100-150k
- Senior UI Designer: $90-140k
- Senior Visual Designer: $85-130k
Some clever perks:
- Covering moving costs.
- Signing bonus.
- Hardware budget.
- Free art gallery membership.
- $200 monthly allowance for Uber.
5. 20 Reasons Why Startups Fail: Report [The Next Web]
By now, you've probably heard that the chances of a startup succeeding are pretty slim. Most startups fail.
This report from CB Insights offers a look at over 100 "startup failure post-mortems" to find the top reasons why startups fail. Some interesting reasons:
- No market need.
- Ran out of cash.
- Not the right team.
- Get outcompeted.
- Poor marketing.
- Lose focus
