Business & Tech Silicon Valley Startups Duped by Developer Who Faked Resume, Worked 4 Jobs Simultaneously A Mumbai-based engineer who excelled in interviews reportedly held multiple Silicon Valley startup jobs at once, often disappearing after landing offers of up to $200K. Soham Parekh impressed on paper, but founders say most of his resume was fake.
SF News This 'Most Silicon Valley' Job Posting Goes Viral For Its Laughable Absurdity Are you something of a self-knighted travel agent, one who’s also gifted at long division? Do you, too, possess buckets of athleticism? Can you both bake and ice a (vegan) cake with ease? If you've nodded to all the above, then this Menlo Park-based nanny gig might just be right for you.
Arts & Entertainment Employment Sadness: SF Couple Seeks Assistant To Do Absolutely Everything From Manicures To Instagram Occasionally, Craigslist offers us a naked glimpse into the world we live in now and the insufferable private lives of its inhabitants, much as it offers us a window into the horrors of
SF News Everyone Wants To Work At Bay Area Tech Companies, Says New LinkedIn Report No, it's not just their employees' inflated sense of ego — everyone does really want to work at Bay Area tech companies. Or so says a new LinkedIn report, which notes that jobs at
Arts & Entertainment Return Of The Coding Jedi: Gurus, Ninjas, Evangelists In Demand As Job Descriptors "How are your lightsaber skills?" asked a Facebook friend in a recent post complete with the above picture. "We're looking for Jedi of all sorts at Google... with open roles in UI/UX
Arts & Entertainment Video: Michael Fassbender Faces Thunderous Applause In First Trailer For 'Steve Jobs' Just last year, the cast and crew for an Aaron Sorkin-penned Steve Jobs biopic was in chaos. Director David Fincher had bailed on the project, as had possible star Leonardo DiCaprio. Though eventual
Arts & Entertainment SF Strip Clubs Want To Get UC Berkeley Co-Eds Naked Who says there are no non-tech jobs available in San Francisco? I can think of at least six businesses in San Francisco that are actively recruiting employees, and the greatest technical skill you
SF News Working For Google Not All That Awesome, Say Googlers It shouldn't shock anyone that the reality of working for Google is not nearly as swell as what some of us might imagine it to be it is, after all, a job at
SF News Real Estate Investors Target West Oakland For Gentrification As gentrification finger-pointing reaches a fever pitch in the Bay Area, the Wall Street Journal has found a new culprit: real estate investors who are pumping money in spots like West Oakland in
SF News California Governor Signs Nation's First $10 State Minimum Wage Into Law Governor Jerry Brown signed a new measure into law on Wednesday, one that makes California the first state to raise its minimum wage to the $10 mark. Noted as the first minimum-wage hike
SF News Map: Number Of Minimum Wage Jobs Required To Rent In S.F. The S.F. Department of Public Health released a map that shows just how many full-time minimum wage jobs you'd need to rent a 2BR in San Francisco at fair market rates (FMR)
Arts & Entertainment That '70s Jobs: Watch Ashton Kutcher In Trailer For 'Jobs' Formerly (and excruciatingly) titled jOBS, Ashton Kutcher's latest film, all about noted Apple CEO and cofounder, Steve Jobs, will premier August 16th. As the trailer shows, the film (reconfigured as Jobs) covers Steve's
SF News Disney Shutters LucasArts, Lays Off Everyone Just months after Disney acquired Presidio-based Lucasfilm for $4 billion, the entertainment behemoth has reportedly closed down LucasArts and laid off its entire staff from its offices in San Francisco and Singapore, with
SF News Marissa Mayer To Yahoo Employees: Come To Work Or GTF Out Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer isn't just unhappy with her company's on-hold music. Now she's had it up to here with remote workers who don't come in to the office but still draw payroll
SF News Apple Fires Mapping Software Guy Although their mapping technology has much improved since the release of iOS6, Apple has gone and fired the man responsible for making the troubled software. Richard Williamson, the employee who managed the mapping
SF News Comcast To Move Estimated 1,000 Jobs Out Of State This just in: An estimated 1,000 Comcast employees in Livermore, Morgan Hill and Sacramento 'have been told their positions will be moved out-of-state," according to ABC 7 News. Does this mean said
SF News Google Laying Off 4,000 People in Motorola Unit, Purchases Frommer's After acquiring Motorola Mobility in May, Google is now shutting down a third of the division's 90 locations and laying off 4,000 employees, representing 20% of the total employees in the unit.
SF News Scores Line Up For Job At SoMa Target A swarm of jobseekers lined up at the city's newly F5'd Metreon to score a job at the up-and-coming Target store. While San Francisco's left-leaning artisan tastemakers can argue over whether or not
SF News Don't Make Big Decisions After 3 p.m., Suggests Twitter Research Cornell-based research using Twitter posts suggests that people are happiest in the morning hours, with users using words like "awesome" and "super" most often from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tweets,
SF News 'No Bipolars' Ad Agency Makes Stunning Turnaround In Job Ad Controversy Earlier this month, we brought your attention to local ad agency Palmer Advertising's Craigslist ad. The advertisement seeking a print/web designer caused a stir since it mentioned that, however humorously intended, those
SF News San Francisco Ad Agency Won't Hire Bipolars A friendly reminder that, according to ADA laws, discriminating against a candidate or employee based on their mental health is illegal. Which is why, however tongue-in-cheek, San Francisco-based ad agency Palmer Advertising's Craigslist
SF News SF Weekly Cuts Noted Editorial Staff Members, Possibly More In some heart-sinking news today, SF Weekly cut some of its staff -- possibly 1/3 of it, according to the grapevine. Most notably, the Village Voice Media paper pruned such stellar talent
SF News We Need More LGBT Cops, Says SFPD Gay? Need a job? Want a tough job that requires patience, handling weaponry, and dealing with the public at large? Well, the San Francisco Police Department will accept Q2-Entry-Level Police Officer applications beginning
SF News Unemployment Report Reveals Harrowing Numbers While style-free male nerds and affectedly geek-chic (vomit) young girls continue to make a killing in Mission Bay, SOMA, and Silicon Valley, the rest of the country still feels the pinch of post-recession
SF News Oakland School Board Approves Hundreds of Pink Slips for Teachers Another blow for public education unfurled in the East Bay last night. The Oakland School Board approved 500 layoffs notices for Oakland teachers. Said notices will go to 231 elementary school teachers, 41
