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Lawrence Hecht

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How Have Your Role and Responsibilities Changed in the Past 12 Months?
June 17, 2024February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Engineering Managers in 2024: Burnout and More Duties

Two out of three of participants in Jellyfish’s new survey said they experienced burnout in the last 12 months. One of three managers in a LeadDev report are working longer hours now.

conference attendance and tuition for training tech staff declined by more than 50%
April 23, 2024February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Tech Hiring: Most Employers Added Jobs or Kept the Status Quo in 2023

Thirty-seven percent of IT hiring managers in a new survey said they added employees in 2023, while 34% maintained the status quo, according to a new Linux Foundation report.

working conditions and-developers' career plans
November 21, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Low-Code Tools Improve Devs’ Work-Life Balance, Survey Finds

Seventy-one percent of low-code tool users said they are able to stick to a 40-hour work week, compared with 44% of devs that don’t use the tech.

Top 15 Tech Skills by Job Posting Growth
August 24, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Tech Job Ads Up 52% Since First Half of 2021, Says Study

Despite high-profile layoffs and hiring freezes, the demand for technologists — especially backend and data engineers — remains strong, says a DIce report.

average salary by age: oreilly cloud computing salary survey
June 23, 2022February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Remote Workers Make More Money, Cloud Salary Survey Says

Despite the hefty compensation cited in the report, the annual salary increase was only 4%, which is below the rate of inflation.

reasons data/AI pros take part in training/certification
September 16, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Training: Hard Work Pays off for Data/AI Pros

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) professionals are not particularly worried about their jobs or money, but that hasn’t stopped them from learning new skills though.

>80% of tech workers expect their employer to pay for their education
July 22, 2021February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Tech Employers Get Good News from Survey of Industry Workforce

88% of tech industry workers feel appreciated by their employer, according to a 750-person online survey conducted a few weeks ago for Protocol.

UK software engineers burned out from work
July 15, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

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Demand for software developers’ time has not softened recently.

focus on hiring open source developers drops for existing open source program office
August 6, 2020February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Shaky Economy Dampens Need for Developer Recruitment Efforts

Many companies are not hiring and may even have had layoffs. In this environment, large technology companies are having fewer problems recruiting and retaining talent.

How do developers feel about their job: 2020 Stack Overflow Survey
May 28, 2020February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Developer Dissatisfaction Doubles

Developer job dissatisfaction more than doubled, with 24% being at least slightly dissatisfied, up from 11% when the same question was asked a year ago.

48% of hiring managers say company decided to support open source projects to help recruitment
July 2, 2018February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

How Employers Can Help Their Developers: Time for Open Source Projects

Almost half of hiring managers that recruit people with open source skills, almost half (48%) say their company decided to financially support or contribute open source projects to help with recruitment.

IT Budget Allocations
December 2, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Contrarian Look at Software Spending

Over the past months, we’ve seen several blogs saying “cloud is eating software” instead of “software is eating the world.” There’s now data to back up that claim. Looking at the 2017 SIM IT Trends Study, software as a percentage of the entire IT budget may have peaked at […]

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