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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 399 posts.
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Legally operating a job board in Japan
Operating a job board in Japan can lead to legal issues if not properly licensed. This article explains the legal requirements and guidelines for running a job board without facing penalties.
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Working remotely crossed the chasm today
From academia to the Open Source movement, remote collaboration is not exactly novel. From Github to DuckDuckGo, remote-first successful businesses are no longer rare.
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SRE Teams: Hash
How culture is enabling a 2 people team to help scale the product org of a disrupting fintech.
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Pioneers vs. Process People
A farewell post on leaving Merantix Healthcare, contrasting early-stage pioneers who build fast with process people who optimize as startups mature.
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Problems, not solutions (2018)
The most valuable thing a product manager can do is frame the right problem for the right user before anyone writes a line of code.
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I don’t have time for coding challenges
It tends to be standard recruitment practice in the tech industry to require candidates to complete some sort of coding test or challenge. Sometimes this takes the form of the much-feared whiteboard interview – where candidates are expected to work through a problem on the aforementioned whiteboard, in front of an…
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Presentation Rules
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Nobody Cares (2011)
All the mental energy you waste complaining would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.
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Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities
The Midwest tech startup scene is growing. Jobs data show tons of Midwest tech companies are hiring, making the region worth looking into for tech workers.
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GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring
One of the things I'm working on right now is a project that's aggregating data found in developers GitHub profiles. Since there are a couple of problems with using GitHub profiles as a data source like this, I wanted to first list out some of the issues I have with trying to assess developers by looking only at their…
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Beyond Remote
On Monday, Twitter and Square announced they were going remote-first as a company. Three days later Facebook and Shopify had similar announcements. Since then, Twitter and every one of my group chats have been lit up with discussions on what the implications of these changes will be on the future of work. I've been…
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Personal OKRs for Success
How to use OKRs for personal goal setting and tracking your progress
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Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Software Project
There's a lot you should know before you start creating software. Take time to understand the product, business, users, and overall project journey.
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How to Escape from Immoral Mazes
Previously in sequence and most on point: What is Success in an Immoral Maze?, How to Identify an Immoral Maze This post deals with the goal of avoiding or escaping being trapped in an immoral maze…
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How to Hire Great Engineers
Opinionated and highly efficient way to hire great software engineers
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Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions
Another day, another HackerNews discussion about hiring being broken. The most recent one I saw was triggered by a blog post by the formidable Aline Lerner (disclaimer: Aline is a friend and we col…
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Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Paul Graham's recent essay Great Hackers . His sermon is well-written, and I assume it played very well when he preached it to the choir at OSCON .
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Interview like an asset, not a beggar
You're not asking for a job, you're selling a service. The true question behind every interview is "How can you help us?"
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How to Survive a Critique: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Feedback
We are committed to advancing the future of design within our communities, among our members, in small businesses and corporations, in educational institutions, and for individuals. Please use this community resource hub as a guide to some of the most critical needs our community faces today, and will face in the…
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An interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process
In a previous role, I was an engineering manager for a well-known company for a particular tech stack. One way we sorted through all the applications was requiring coding tests for potential candidates. One truly stood out, and it taught me to think about what I am really looking for in these sorts of submissions.
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How to prepare for losing your programming job
Another week has passed, and another 3 million people in the US have filed for unemployment. While the current situation hasn’t impacted programming jobs quite as much, it’s just a matter of time before the economic damage hits most everywhere. There will be layoffs, and plenty of them, and occasionally whole…
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Contributing Without Code
In the mid-90s I was an avid user of online conferencing system called CIX (Compulink Information eXchange). CIX was built using the CoSy Conferencing system from the University of Guelph, which has since been open sourced. Think of it like a dial-up or telnet-accessed forum or message board with a nerd-heavy…
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The Art of Debating for Software Developers
The keys to debate effectively as a software developer and therefore bringing value to yourself and your company.
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Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles
A couple of years ago, I got really interested in pu’er tea—a kind of fermented tea produced in China—which can sell for thousands of dollars. I tried some, liked it, read about its history, and then… My mind started racing: why is it so hard to buy pu’er tea in Europe? Maybe I could import ... Read More
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Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
Announcements, essays, and updates.
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Can developer productivity be measured?
Defining and measuring programmer productivity is one of the most difficult parts of an engineering manager or CTO’s job description. When everything you do is intangible, how should you measure it? Can it be measured at all?
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