Brett Greene I gratefully live in an ongoing opportunity to balance how to serve our broad community. This community includes enterprise and startup executives and employees, founders, engineers, angels, VCs, job seekers, service providers, etc. who each have different needs that New Tech can help with. We’re offering many things to everyone in the tech community so … Read more
A quick thanks to the almost 500 of you who participated in last weeks job fair. We’re already hearing stories of candidates getting jobs from those connections. 🙂 If I were to ask you how you’d characterize Seattle these days, you’d probably talk about the booming economy, the skyline full of cranes, the resulting bad … Read more
My main passion with New Tech is helping people. My second passion with New Tech is finding, highlighting, and inspiring innovation. The level of creative innovation being generated in the PNW is astounding. We’re very lucky to live in a beautiful area thriving with creativity. No matter what your job or aspirations are, more creativity … Read more
Happy New Year! I hope you had a relaxing and fun break as we closed out 2017. Thank you for being active in our community of 30,000+ techies and friends building our awesome tech and PNW ecosystems with a GiveFirst attitude. We have some exciting 2018 plans lined up for you. You’ll especially enjoy our … Read more
New Tech at it’s heart is about caring for the people in our community. Our organization is focused on our 30,000+ members helping each other with our tech careers and companies to build better community together. We’ve all had a mixed bag of a year no matter how much you see it as being an … Read more
We’re racing toward the end of the year. A crazy year politically, and crazy with King County changes as 1,000 people a week move here, and the unofficial state bird becoming a crane. It’s hard to keep up and feel like the ground underneath our feet, and city landscape, isn’t constantly changing. It’s an interesting … Read more
On Saturday I spoke out to protect net neutrality at a press conference with Senator Maria Cantwell, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene, Michael Mattmiller, CTO, City of Seattle and Sarah Bird, the CEO of Moz. You can see the video of the press conference if you’d like to hear what we all shared. King5 also interviewed me for their … Read more
Ever wanted to know more about stock options and equity but weren’t sure where to start? Look no further! On November 8th, we’ll be hosting an equity compensation workshop to learn about best practices for employees and employers. This workshop couldn’t come at a better time. Our competitive job market is driving companies to come … Read more
One of New Tech’s community partners is Washington Technology Industry Association. Their FullConTech events are fantastic and here’s the scoop on the next one from Anne Miano: FullConTech takes a road trip on September 26, as we board a bus and head east to Sleeping Lady in Leavenworth, WA to talk about the Immigrant Workforce. Want to join … Read more
We’ve all sat in a conference room, having a candid one-on-one conversation with a senior team member about our job performance. It’s uncomfortable and stressful. As a matter of fact, according to a recent survey commissioned by Adobe, 58 percent of employees find performance reviews stressful, 55 percent wish they didn’t have to participate in … Read more
What is the mission and history of Girls Who Code nationally and in the Seattle area? The idea behind Girls Who Code is that we need close the gender gap in technology by empowering girls with the skills and confidence needed to take on some of the most sought-after jobs in the U.S. Today, less … Read more
Work life can get complicated quickly when you’re forced to deal with an unreasonable, hostile or difficult person. It can also turn an otherwise fulfilling job into a nightmare overnight. If a colleague is getting you down, here are a few tips that might help you take control of the situation. Just keep in mind … Read more
