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Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Budget, or at All
Learn how to predict the timeline, budget, and resources more accurately in your software development project in 7 steps.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team
My quest is to build beautiful things that help change the world, and I’ve been fortunate to spend the last 15 years in Silicon Valley, working with some of the major players shaping all sorts of technology. Today, I’m super excited to join SiFive - the company I believe is best positioned to transform the silicon…
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One Way Smart Developers Make Bad Strategic Decisions
Learn why top-down standardization efforts can often lead to failure and how understanding specific problems through collaboration and embedding wi...
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Trickle-down workaholism in startups
“And then I said anyone not willing to break their backs working for me was a tourist!”If you want to understand why so many startups become infected with unhealthy work habits, or outright workaho…
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There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers
In the last 3 months, I've interviewed 134 engineers - students, mid-level, seniors and even CTOs.
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Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
Brian Donohue | Pinterest engineering manager, Product Engineering
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Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
Insights | Vincit
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We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from language to code style
A data-driven analysis of thousands of technical interviews that focuses on easily measurable attributes that many interviews share.
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Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
Single interview outcomes aren't as reliable as you might think.
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You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI
The Domino Data Lab blog is home to all things data science and machine learning, with information and resources tailored to data science professionals.
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Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
We had interviewees use ChatGPT without their interviewer knowing. Here's what happened.
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Salary Negotiations: What is Possible When There's no More Money
ArticulateVentures.com - a great premium domain available for sale.
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Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (2012)
Stanford GSB researchers find that how people respond to mistakes can be a "clue to who they are."
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Startup employees don't earn more
We estimate typical startup salaries and equity compensation, and find early-employees don't earn more than large company employees.
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How is team-member-1 doing?
People asked how team-member-1 is doing after the DB incident of Jan 31st - Feb 1st. We're here to tell you that.
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How Startup Options and Ownership Work
One of the things that struck me most during our recent pieces on startup employee option plans is how things that impact the value of those options aren’t well understood, even if communicated or known at the onset. Many people reported feelings of a sort of “sticker shock” (or reverse!) on leaving their first…
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Developer marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned
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…
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Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
I did the Y Combinator interview. It's for entry to the Winter 2020 batch. I'm excited, but also a bit divided. Here are my notes.
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Switching to a four-day workweek (2021)
Get a ride in minutes, order food and grocery delivery, rent a car or scooter, improve business travel and more. Available in 850+ cities and 50+ countries.
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How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups
On October 26, 2010, Shereef Bishay - of BetterMeans and the recently launched ClassParrot - told the HackerNews community about some copywriting work I did for him:
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Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing
If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.