New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is hiring software engineers, designers, researchers for his 'tech crew': Here's what the job actually is

New York City has opened applications for a new kind of government job. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is hiring software engineers, ...

A former software engineer quit her $250K career and took an 87% pay cut to open matcha cafe in NYC — here’s why she never looked back

Matcha House is approaching its first full year of operation on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Owner Michelle Yeung has no ...
Business Insider

A 26-year-old software engineer who splits his time between NYC and SF explains how he makes it work financially — and his 4 takeaways from bicoastal living

If it's too hard picking a coast to settle down on, why not live on both? That's what Anirudh Kaushik, a 26-year-old software engineer, does. He splits his time between San Francisco and New York City ...
Complex

Google Software Engineer Jumps to Death From NYC Headquarters, Second Employee Suicide of 2023

A 31-year-old senior software engineer at Google jumped to his death from the company’s New York City headquarters on Thursday according to police.

Chasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI

Software engineering was one of the best-paying professions in the US in 2022, but the advent of AI has disrupted it, leading to several layoffs and underemployment ...

Software Engineer’s Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker

A federal labor law judge determined last week that the software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an employee who ...