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Career & Management
The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 47 posts.
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Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)
Everybody hates working on legacy projects, me as well. Working on one, however, helped me get a deeper understanding of the dev process.
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Zed is our office
From the Zed Blog: A look at how we use Zed's native collaboration features to run our entire company.
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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
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Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
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My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation
I recently had a saga with a washing machine that reminded me why one of the most feared and hated tasks for software developers starts with the question: “So how long will it take you to build that?”
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Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
arXiv’s computer science (CS) category has updated its moderation practice with respect to review (or survey) articles and position papers. Before being…
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Collaboration sucks
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go alone too. (mostly)
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Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
I just got off one of the most surreal video calls of my life - a live video call with a candidate who was interviewing to become an L3 software engineer at Kapwing, our online video editing startup. The interview started extremely well - the candidate seemed like a clear
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You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.
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Code review can be better
Slightly unusual genre today: a negative result about our git-review tool for a different take on code review process, which we decided to shelve, at least for the time being.
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We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job
Cybersecurity isn’t just a priority for Kraken, it’s part of our origin story and embedded into our DNA.
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AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
A reshaped learning curve
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The Junior Hiring Crisis
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
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Why I code as a CTO
Assembled CTO John Wang on why coding makes him a better leader—and how AI tools are redefining what it means to build at scale.
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The Evolution of SRE at Google
Billions of people around the world use Google’s products every day, and they count on those products to work reliably. Behind the scenes, Google’s services have increased dramatically in scale over the last 25 years — and failures have become rarer even as the scale has grown. Google’s SRE team has pioneered methods…
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How to Give a Good Talk
In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc…
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Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?
Reflecting on how our compensation model is going
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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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API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value
What are you going to do when you add a new kind?
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I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher
I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher.
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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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2025 Hiring Pause
Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty. The potential for deep cuts in federal research funding, as well as tax legislation affecting our endowment income, has now been added to existing concerns related to rapid growth and cost escalations. It…
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Managing time when time doesn't exist
The Ultimate Productivity Paradox
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The DevOps Engineer's Handbook
Rather than technology alone, it's the practices, processes, and culture changes DevOps introduces that can most positively impact your software delivery.
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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
Vijaye Raji will step into a new role as CTO of Applications, reporting to CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, following the acquisition of Statsig.
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Regarding the Compact
The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
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Why top firms fire good workers
Elite firms’ culture of employee turnover isn’t arbitrary but a rational way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.