Gayle Laakmann McDowell | Technology Woman

Forbes recently posted an article by me called “10 Secrets to Getting a Job at Apple, Google, or Microsoft.” Here are three of my favorites: Start Something: Launching a small tech company, or just a project, can demonstrate virtually everything a tech firm wants to see: field expertise, passion for technology, initiative, leadership and creativity. [...]

Every election day, people love to proclaim their frustration with this dirty-awful-horrible two party system, and insist that what we really need is a multi-party system.   And every election day, they’re dead wrong. Let’s take the following hypothetical election with candidates A, B and C.  30% of the population votes for A, 30% for B, and [...]

Having just finished up my first year in Wharton’s MBA program, I often hear the question, “is an MBA worth it?” It’s a tough choice: $100k or so in tuition and other expenses, plus the lost salary, plus the loss in possible promotions. With TechCrunch having just posted an article on this matter, I thought I’d [...]

My elderly (childhood) nanny just bought a pre-paid cell phone and, naturally, I needed to help her set it up and teach her how to use it.  The phone was a great deal, she told me – just $99 for a year of free US and international calling! Cheapest phone plan ever, right?  This is [...]

What have you learned in the past year?  Jill Foster of WomenGrowBusiness.com asked me this question and posted my response here: 3 Business Ideas: Experiment Often, Carefully, and Singly.  You can read it there or below where I’ve re-posted it. —— I started CareerCup to solve one part of software engineering interviews: preparation. Candidates who [...]

It seems like generally a good idea to limit the amount of snail mail you get that has sensitive information on it (social security number, bank account, etc), right? I called my bank today to ask them to stop mailing me copies of my bank statements. I don’t like snail mail in general and with [...]

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