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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 1,339 posts.
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DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
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Some advice from Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos stopped by our office yesterday and spent about 90 minutes with us talking product strategy. Before he left, he spent about 45 minutes taking general Q&A from everyone at the office. During one of his answers, he shared an enlightened observation about people who are “right …
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Teams is killing my Mac every day
I have a hard time believing I'm the first person to post this after not finding anything in the forum. I wouldn't doubt if Microsoft is deleting them...
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Rejected internal job applicants are twice as likely to quit
Internal job applicants who face rejection are nearly twice as likely to leave their organizations than those who were either hired for an internal job or had not applied for a new job at all, ILR School research finds.
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What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
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Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation
Workaholism or work addiction risk is a growing public health concern that can lead to many negative mental and physical health outcomes such as depression, anxiety or sleep disorder. Perception of work (job demands and job control) may become a major cause of employees’ work addiction. The international group of…
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To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done
Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.
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How to talk about yourself in a developer interview
When people ask me what they should know first about going into technical interviews, they get the same answer: be prepared to talk .
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DevOps is broken
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
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Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage
Jeff Bezos's six-page memos are legendary in the startup world for good reason: clear writing and clear thinking go hand in hand.
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What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?
To make sense of all the contradictory info on Google & Facebook hiring freezes, we surveyed hundreds of engineers who are interviewing there right now.
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That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job
It was midnight on May 22nd, 2016 that I pushed my first commit to GitHub for a new idea. Little did I know what would happen next.
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MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions
Archived MIT Admissions blog post 'A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests,' published March 20, 2020. Preserved for historical context; not maintained as current admissions policy.
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Prisoners of Google Android development
A real Android release case study showing how a small API-level update caused production crashes, Google Play delays, and limited rollback options.
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Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt
What if tech debt wasn’t always an accident, caused by incorrect assumptions and unexpected circumstances? How would you spend a tech debt mortgage?
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The dangers of high status, low wage jobs
This tweet first reads as snarky, then insightful, but give it a few seconds and you’ll realize it’s pointing out a real problem. There are many reasons why an industry can become conce…
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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
Seventeen recommendations from someone we think had a big impact with their career.
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How to find a remote job
Join DeeKit's global community of digital nomads. Find friends, work opportunities, and adventure anywhere in the world.
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What Developers Should Know About Job Searching and Negotiation
Patrick McKenzie on the ins and outs of job searching for engineers
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The other kind of staff software engineer
In this article, the author explores the differences between line and staff software engineers. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ea...
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More product, fewer product managers
There has been a lot of discussion about how many Product Managers (PMs) are required in a product team. This conversation gained momentum after Airbnb restructured their product management organization, followed by articles about how startups are thriving without any PMs.
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Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk
I do my best to support the people that use my open source projects. I don’t always do things right, I don’t always respond in a timely manner. Sometimes I just have to walk away from an issue or request and let it die from lack of attention. But I do my best, and I take the time to provide meaningful answers whenever…