Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Career and Tech Hiring Tips -- October 10, 2014

Welcome to CyberCoders' Weekly Roundup! Every week, we handpick the top five stories from around the web that offer great insight into hiring in the tech industry. 

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1. Microsoft CEO Explains Why He Said Women Shouldn't Ask for Raises [Read Write]

Nadella raised an uproar this week at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing by giving controversial career advice to women.

“It’s not really about asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will give you the right raise,” Nadella told a confounded (and predominantly female).

Since women are generally paid 78 percent as much as men, many women were puzzled by this advice that suggested women shouldn't speak up for equality.

After ReadWrite broke the story, Nadella clarified that he misspoke:

"Was inarticulate re how women should ask for raise. Our industry must close gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of a bias #GHC14," Nadella tweeted at October 9th, 1:34 PM.

If you want to watch him speak at the panel, go to 1:31 here and you be the judge.

2. LinkedIn Now Tells You Which Actions Led to Higher Profile Views [The Next Web]

The "Who's Viewed Your Profile" is by far the most popular feature LinkedIn has. Now, they've expanded the information you can extract from checking who's lurking on your profile.

"Under the “Who’s Viewed Your Profile” section, LinkedIn has added a new area on the right-hand side listing notable actions the user has taken over a specific time frame. This could include posting a status update, joining a prominent group, giving endorsements or making new connections," The Next Web reports.

Seems like a helpful feature to confirm what you're doing right.

3. 12 Tech Tools Productivity Experts Can't Live Without [Fast Company]

 With thousands upon thousands of mobile apps, web apps and services out there, it can be overwhelming to choose the most effective productivity tools.

What really works?

Here are five of the tools that productivity experts swear by:

• Post-it Plus, for organizing your thoughts.
• Sunrise, for syncing your calendar with a beautiful interface. (This is my favorite as well!)
• Uskape, for integrating all other productivity apps, like evernote and email.

4. Rise of Mobile Devices, Cloud Computing Shake Up Silicon Valley [Fox Business]

Both eBay and Hewlett-Packard are spinning off parts of their companies. Experts say this is a direct result of the rise in popularity of mobile and cloud technology.

"The spin-off is something HP originally explored three years ago only to back off after CEO Meg Whitman concluded the company would be stronger if it held on to the PC division.

That conclusion reflected a long-standing belief that companies are generally better off when they have an array of products to appeal to the various needs of different customers."

5. Quip Busts Barriers Between Documents and Spreadsheets [WIRED]

Hot, new startup alert! Quip is going to change the way you do your spreadsheets. In fact, it's blurring the lines between words and numbers.

“This isn’t a separate type of app. This isn’t a separate type of document. You can embed spreadsheets in other documents, with everything else,” Bret Taylor, cofounder of Quip told WIRED.