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DURHAM, N.C. – Company loyalty is a double-edged sword, according to a new study. Managers target loyal workers over less committed colleagues when doling out unpaid work and additional job tasks.
Karat acquires Triplebyte's adaptive assessment technology to help companies eliminate resume bias, reduce candidate drop-off, and hire engineers more fairly.
We recently discussed Information industry jobs data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: That post showed that layoffs in Information were elevated relative to layoffs for non-farm employment overall...
Mark Zuckerberg announces steps to make Meta a better technology company and improve our financial performance.
The product we’re building, a rack-scale computer, is specifically designed to be a centralized, integrated product because that’s what our customers need. This requirement and the design choices we’ve made to meet this need create some daily efficiency challenges for our team. As a remote-first company, we’re…
A complete guide for senior engineers on how to prepare for a system design interview.
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers. There are plenty of…
RFCs, also called Design Documents, let us describe software designs before implementation. But how do you make sure that RFCs get deep review and are seen by the right people? How do you help reviewers catch problems in a system’s design? We’ve been iterating on our RFC review process and here’s wh
Automation is a key part of every org in our company, including Support. It’s how we’re building the infrastructure company that we’ve always wanted.
In the last few years, the pandemic and inflation in the U.S. have upended peoples’ lives in different levels making young people adjust their retirement goals.
The message below on return-to-office plans was shared by Andy Jassy with Amazon employees today.
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
Read a message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, to the employees of Zoom.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Annotations, such as Javadoc, help maintainers understand your coding decisions.
Today’s post is a little more personal than professional (in fact, this started off as a post for my personal blog), but there’s still plenty of overlap into entrepreneurship and crowdf…
“Layoffs kill people,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer. And they don’t cut costs or improve productivity.
As an almost 25-year-old company, we’re bound to go through difficult economic cycles.
We're living through times of significant change.
Earlier today, Lattice CEO Jack Altman sent the following note to Lattice employees. — Jan 12, 2023
Forget these interview questions 🙅 and never ask them your potential employees in software development (or elsewhere).
Absent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do.
The Facebook-era “move fast and break things” startup motto no longer applies in today’s hyper-competitive environment. This is especially true for SaaS startups like Jam, where customers trust and rely on their products to complete their work. If you’ve met anyone on the Jam team, you
I was a “hardcore” Principal Engineer at SpaceX, achieving performance goals and working longer hours than most of my colleagues—yet I saw my work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold.By John Johnson, former Principal Engineer at SpaceXI have watched the recent news…
