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Layoffs Broke Big Tech’s Elite College Hiring Pipeline
Eva Xie did it right. She went to the highly competitive Bronx High School of Science in New York City…
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Alphabet’s Layoffs Aren’t Very Googley
In 2004, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin engaged in a comically passive-aggressive IPO road show. They eschewed business…
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Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People
“It’s personally embarrassing for myself to have to explain to friends and family members why I’m getting fired,” says one…
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Quantum Startups’ Stock Market Dreams Are Decohering
At the end of September, Rigetti reported $212 million in assets and a net loss of $49 million for the year to…
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Big Tech’s Layoffs Highlight How the US Fails Immigrant Workers
Tens of thousands of people have been laid off at Amazon, Meta, Salesforce and other once-voracious tech employers in recent…
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Lina Khan’s Plan to Liberate US Workers
“I am dubious that three unelected technocrats have somehow hit on the right way to think about noncompetes and that…
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ChatGPT Has Investors Drooling—but Can It Bring Home the Bacon?
When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its…
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What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace,…
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CEO Eduardo Moreno accused of peeping in Panera women’s bathroom
The CEO of a Silicon Valley startup was arrested Monday on suspicion of peeping on a woman inside a Panera…
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Happiness Should Be the Most Important KPI for Tech Employers
During economic downturns, businesses resort to muscle memory and do what they’ve done before. That often means budget cuts—and the…
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