Three Colorado cities named ‘Top Tech Towns’ in the U.S. for 2020

April 11, 2024November 12, 2020 by FinTech SVJobs

For the third consecutive year, three Colorado cities have been honored as Top Tech Towns.

What does it take to crack a virtual tech interview

March 8, 2024October 26, 2020 by FinTech SVJobs

2020 has brought to us a variety of experiences with the novel Coronavirus. Many experiences proved to be adverse, yet the learning has been productive to most industries. With a global crisis marking the end of this roller-coaster decade, more than a million professionals lost their jobs overnight. Companies faced the massive task of taking their businesses online, setting foot into an entirely different, tech-dependent era. Considering the major changes that industries underwent, it has become quite evident that among the various global industries, the tech jobs market is going to be positively impacted. Tech has become the common denominator for all industries at the time.

Walmart cuts Sunnyvale tech jobs after Fandango deal

March 8, 2024October 22, 2020 by FinTech SVJobs

Most of the tech workers Walmart laid off find replacement jobs, others were displaced

Who’s Hiring And Reskilling In Tech And What Are They Looking For?

March 8, 2024October 21, 2020 by FinTech SVJobs

Covid-19 will permanently wipe out between 6.2 million and 8.7 million jobs in the U.S. by the end of the year. In my home country of Canada, we are still 1 million jobs short of our pre-Covid employment levels. Due to this grim outlook, many are asking: Who’s hiring and what are they looking for? Some innovation-driven sectors are adapting and actually growing a lot during this time which provides signs of hope.

Partnership Kicks Off 5G Tech Jobs and Research in Puerto Rico

March 9, 2024October 8, 2020 by FinTech SVJobs

Celeres Capital, an investment and advisory firm based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, announced that the U.S. territory has secured a leadership role in communication technology with the Puerto Rico 5G Zone initiative. This laboratory is primed to enable companies, government entities, and academia to test applications and build new use cases for 5G networks, securing Puerto Rico’s future success.

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Sankaet Pathak, Founder & CEO Synapse completed a Master’s in electrical engineering at the University of Memphis, where he previously majored in computer engineering, physics and mathematics. A scientist at heart, much of Pathak’s academic work was focused on physics and research related to the solar corona. As a student at the University of Memphis and a recent immigrant to the USA, Sankaet Pathak needed to open a bank account. He was surprised to learn that wasn’t an easy task. Sankaet knew he had to develop a better option not only for himself but for the over 20% of adults in the USA with poor or limited credit history. Sankaet founded Synapse with an eye toward offering a viable alternative to legacy banking systems, while providing operational simplicity, efficiency & ease of integration to perform virtually any banking interaction. Sankaet is launching an AI startup soon called Foundation. Foundation is developing the future of general purpose robotics with the goal to address the labor shortage. Foundation’s mission is to create advanced robots that can operate in complex environments, reducing human risk in conflict zones and enhancing efficiency in labor-intensive industries.