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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 200 posts.
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What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman
(for audio version click here)
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What I Learned From Blowing An Interview
Some time ago, I was a development manager with 23 reports spread over four teams.
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Silicon Valley hiring is not a meritocracy (2013)
Note: This post was adapted from an answer I wrote on Quora. EDIT: I’m working on something that I hope will make things better. Check out interviewing.io. I’ve been hiring people in some capacity for the past 3 years. First, I was doing it as an engineer, then as an in-house recruiter, and now as […]
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Wanna quit your job and become upwork freelancer? Do not do that
Almost every day I receive job offers on my 5 star odesk (upwork) profile . I do not search anything manually, clients contacting me directl...
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Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember
(even if you’re not that old)
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Growing One's Consulting Business (2012)
How I got started consulting and the advice which changed my (business) life.
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Market Rate is for Lobsters
Ernie Miller is a values-driven engineering leader, conference speaker, and lover of people based in Naples, Florida.
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VW
Do you know the name Michael Horn ? He’s the CEO of Volkswagen of America . You know what’s going on with Volkswagen, right? Dieselgate? The fact that the software that controls the Diesel engine in some of their cars was specifically written to defeat emissions tests? Yeah, apparently that software could detect when…
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Interviewing candidates
A quick note: I’m going to be traveling for much of the rest of June and I haven’t got articles queued up, so the blog will go dark for a bit; see you in July! In the last two episodes …
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How I optimised my life to make my job redundant
If you’re a regular reader, you may have noticed a rather major job change on my behalf [https://www.troyhunt.com/2015/05/so-dust-has-finally-settled.html] recently. The day to day office grind has gone and corporate life is now well and truly behind me, where
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Super easy project planning and estimation
Add tasks to your project and break them down into subtasks. The tree layout highlights the structure of your project.
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Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor
Imposter syndrome is often presented as a personal failing. A lack of confidence, our wrong-headed beliefs not matching the reality of how competent we are, or worst of a flaw of our gender. Just...
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A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management
If you’re a startup company founder with a technical background (or a design or product management background), building a sales team for…
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Coding Like a Girl
(this was originally given as a talk at AlterConf in Oakland)
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Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony
Paul Simon has a song called ‘One Trick Pony’ with a bit in it that goes like this:
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Destroy all hiring processes
Finding work as a software person kind of sucks sometimes. Actually, let me strike the "kind of" from that sentence. …
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