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A Hybrid Approach to Work
The future of work at Google: more flexibility for your work week, more choice around where you work, and more flexibility for your life.
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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass
We started developing Toshl for Windows Phone because we liked the platform and saw the potential in it. It's a beautifully designed OS, even if the experience starts to wear a bit thin after a few weeks and a giant leap for Microsoft. Publishing apps for it though, has turned out to be a very…
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Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
Operational simplicity in aodrqew, balancing stability and agility to enhance reliability, reduce complexity, and focus on impactful innovation.
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Which Way Do You Run?
The difference between a good CEO and a great one? Trusting your gut and confronting your fears head on.
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When someone says they hate your product
How to reset the thermostat, and CodeRabbit as a case study
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How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a…
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California updates laws around salary and criminal histories of job applicants
California has updated its labor laws around the salary and criminal histories of job applicants. Find out how to stay compliant.
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A development process to ship features fast
Here are 9 specific steps founders can use to ship features faster, keep their product team aligned and build what their users really want.
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Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
One of our favorite anecdotes that illustrates just how hard it is to get people to read the docs comes from an unexpected source: Van Halen. The...
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What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’?
Ben Treynor Sloss interview with Niall Murphy, discusses about sre & sre roles and responsibilities; highlights how SRE differs from traditional operations.
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The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
How are developers supposed to manage and coordinate fast-moving, heterogeneous systems including maintenance & operations — and free themselves to build?
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Signs you might be a micromanager
Warning signs of micromanagement include sweating the small stuff, getting CC'ed on every email, and needing to approve everything.
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Questions candidates can ask about equity compensation
It’s important to ask questions when you get an offer that includes any kind of equity. In addition to helping you learn the facts about the equity offer, the process of discussing these details can help you get a sense of the company’s transparency and responsiveness. Here are a few questions you should consider…
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Hacker School is now the Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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How to Become a Data Scientist, Part 2
This is Part Two in a three-part series examining how to become a data scientist. Supported by extensive research and expert opinions, it aims to provide a comprehensive guide to anyone looking to move into this field, irrespective of background and experience. The topic of Part Two is: "Learning".
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Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups
What's the #1 need of early-stage tech startups? Experienced software engineers. And they are becoming impossible to find in Silicon Valley, even though they are everywhere.
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The art of interrupting software engineers
Earlier this month, Broadcom published findings from our frontier model research initiative examining what frontier AI models can do when applied to vulnerability discovery and...
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The Apollo Syndrome
This page describes 'The Apollo Syndrome', a phenomenon discovered by Dr Meredith Belbin where teams of highly capable individuals can, collectively, perform badly.
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