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Plaid lays off 20% of staff, CEO says the fintech company ‘hired and invested ahead of revenue growth’

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In March, Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Greze told TechCrunch that he grew his engineering team 17.5x She added that since Plaid is “aligning to updated headcount goals, teams like recruiting are impacted more than others.”. in just four years, from 20 engineers to 350 people. Today’s cut likely reverses some of that hyper-growth. .

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Tech Trends in 2014: Actionable Insights For Your Career

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Drawing from her 20+ years of recruitment experience across financial services, technology, healthcare, biotech, professional services, and the Internet space, Lenzner has some interesting perspectives about top trends. Q: Looking back at the year that was, what were some of the more prominent tech trends of 2013? trillion from 2013?s

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Mistaking performance for competence

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We had a good chat earlier this week, which you can read here: Image Credits: Rethink Robotics TC: What does your day-to-day look like as a CTO? We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that. RB: Well, if you don’t count the last few days , I try to provoke people. So, nothing new on that front.