Payscale, providing useful info on compensation

Payscale, providing useful info on compensation

PayScale, a Seattle start-up that shares salary information with Web users who share their own, has just released some useful tools for job searchers.

First, there’s the widget pictured here, that folks like us at VentureBeat can place on their job boards (we’re considering doing this). Even more useful is their new feature that pops up salary information about specific jobs as searchers scroll over job listings. See below for an example of a pop-up… Continue Reading

Peanut Butter redux, expensive Sonsini, Hoffman burned, Infinera & much more

Peanut Butter redux, expensive Sonsini, Hoffman burned, Infinera & much more

(Updated) roundup of the high-stakes game going on in Silicon Valley:

Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter memo — The Yahoo executive complained about the company’s “proclivity to repeatedly hire leaders from outside.” This is noteworthy, because he himself was hired from the outside. Before Yahoo, he’d served as chief executive at DialPad, and drove that company into the ground. We reached out to Brad Monday night, and hope to get comment soon.

Larry Sonsini can’t be at fault — Fortune… Continue Reading