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Meta lays off 11,000 people
Mark Zuckerberg shares some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.
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Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died
Aisha Washington is a global people and culture executive with more than two decades of experience driving enterprise growth through HR M&A integration, workforce AI transformation, high-performance culture, and team
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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
Notorious AV patent troll Axel Nix is at it again!
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Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
Archived MIT Admissions blog post 'We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles,' published March 28, 2022. Preserved for historical context; not maintained as current admissions policy.
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New Year, New CEO
It’s a new year, and I’ve decided it’s a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal. I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade. It has always been my goal for Signal to grow and sustain beyond my involvement, but four years ago that would still not have been possible. I was writ...
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High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
We get a lot more done in way less time at Tremendous. We'll tell you exactly what that means.
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Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
I am often asked what I mean when I say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out. Let’s unpack the statement.
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The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I going to make it to the next level?
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Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
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.
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A CTO should be technical
Why engineering leaders also need to be great engineers.
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Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…
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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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DevOps is broken
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
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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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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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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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Bolt announces layoffs
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Remote startups will win the war for top talent
Forty percent of workers are considering quitting. Management that opts for empty arguments to force people back in-office will bleed talent to their competition.
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We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon
From this week we're switching to working Monday-Thursday for all team members at Beacon. Here I'll explain why we've decided to make this change, how it's going to work for us, and what it'll mean for our customers.
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Most people don’t finish online job applications
A recent audit of the Fortune 500 showed that job application flow has improved, but there are still too many steps involved in getting applicants to the finish line.
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At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”
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…
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No one cared about my spreadsheets
The most painful part of writing The Case Against Education was calculating the return to education. I spent fifteen months working on the spreadsheets. I came up with the baseline case, did scores of “variations on a theme,” noticed a small mistake or blind alley, then started over. Several programmer friends advised…
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Toxic Productivity
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A dev's thoughts on developer productivity
Developers are systems thinkers and yet, most measures of developer productivity are metrics-based, instead of systems-based. In this post, Sourcegraph co-founder and CTO Beyang Liu presents five charts that visualize what really matters for developer productivity.
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Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs
Boards often don’t think about shaking up the C-suite until it’s too late.
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Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit
GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij shares 12 steps that managers can take to help employees avoid burnout.
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