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The most popular blog posts about career & management on Hacker News. 6,085 posts.
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Fired
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
Dash provides instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets, code snippets, and cheat sheets. Features MCP support for AI integration with Claude and other AI agents.
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How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
How I got started consulting and the advice which changed my (business) life.
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I will not do a tech interview
I am terrible at taking tech interviews. Out of dozens that I’ve done, I may never have passed one. My typical pattern goes like this: A serendipitous contact leads to outstanding phone call with a …
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HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
How hiring is becoming a luck filter.
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My $500M Mars rover mistake
Some mistakes feel worse than death.
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Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
Do you actually use data structures and algorithms on your day to day job? I've noticed a growing trend of people assuming algorithms are pointless questions that are asked by tech companies purely as an arbitrary measure. I hear more people complain about how all of this is a
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Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
Adria Richards was an attendee at PyCon, a tech conference, as part of her job as a developer evangelist at Sendgrid, a tech company that manages emails. She took offense to a conversation two men,…
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Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
Mark Zuckerberg announces steps to make Meta a better technology company and improve our financial performance.
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I quit the tech industry
This Friday, June 12, will be my last day at Yelp. I don’t intend to look for another tech job. Or another job at all. Ever.
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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.
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Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
I got laid off from a software engineering job in April of 2020.
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An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
After ~12.5 years at Google and ~10 years working on Go ( #golang ), it's time for me to do something new. Tomorrow is my last day at Google.
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Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
(Note: This was written in 2016. I recently — in late 2019 — wrote a post about some things I’ve learned since then .)
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When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
When hiring developers, there are many things we are looking for, but over the years I have found that raw coding ability is easily the most important quality to look for. I can quickly…
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John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
We have incredible news to share with the community: legendary game programmer John Carmack will be officially joining the Oculus team as...
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Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are hurt and angry, and they
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Career advice for people with bad luck
Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success.
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If you're remote, ramble
A lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion for remote teams.
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When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
Undeniably, hiring senior software engineers is hard. However, I don’t buy into the narrative that the market is completely dried out. Throughout my career, I’ve worked with many different engineering teams, which could all be sorted into two categories: The ones struggling to hire seniors and the ones that had an…
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The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
System administration is in a sad state. It in a mess.
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You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions: lines of code = effort lines of code = value all lines of c...