Work & Careers
- There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
- Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract
- Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
- Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
- I refused to train the AI that could replace me
- Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?
- Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
- Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
- AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
- Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike
- Why some US restaurants are banning tips
- Anger, Anxiety and Agency
- Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?
- How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
- AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it
- Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
- Beware Management Consultants
- Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
- Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding
- AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
- US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
- How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
- US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
- The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
- What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
- Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
- Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
- Don't be a meat proxy
- Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
- The Religion of Speed
- The Cold Email
- A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
- Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
- This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)
- What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
- Did they ghost you?
- Don't Take the Black Pill [video]
- Patreon laying off 20% of staff
- OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
- AI makes programming differently difficult
- The Voice of Google
- AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
- Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
- The human-in-the-loop is tired
- At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
- Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
- What will be left for us to work on?
- Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM
- Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C
- I think I have LLM burnout
- FAANG Simulator
- The revenge of the philosophy majors
- Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)
- Learning to code is still worthwhile
- Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario
- Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
- Programmers need to start meditating
- AI has torched the market for junior programmers
- It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026)
- Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things
- Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
- Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
- What to learn to be a graphics programmer
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
- Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
- HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
- Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
- Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI
- Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
- Elastic lays off 7% of employees
- Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition
- There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days
- Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring
- Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
- Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year
- Job application asked for my SAT scores
- Jobs and Software Is Fucked
- Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
- The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends
- Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks
- Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
- Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
- After AI takes everything
- "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
- Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
- Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
- Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
- Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
- CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
- Where is the AI jobs crisis?
- Job: Head of Stonehenge
- Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
- Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
- LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
- New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker
- Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
- The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go
- Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers
- Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks
- A Man Who Reads Books for a Living
- It is an amazing time for programmers
- Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
- Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
- What's gonna happen to software engineers?
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
- Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers
- You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)
- Domain expertise has always been the real moat
- AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers
- The Last Technical Interview
- The dead economy theory
- GTA 6 Developers Unionize
- I am retiring from tech to live offline
- Social Animus
- Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
- Can we have the day off?
- Where does next-token prediction leave us?
- Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
- The worst job interview I ever had
- Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union
- AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
- Leave Me Behind
- The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
- The Art of Money Getting
- The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't
- Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
- US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds
- Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
- College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
- Dumb ways for an open source project to die
- Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
- I’ve joined Anthropic
- Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
- US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
- Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
- Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
- Cisco workforce reductions
- The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly
- As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work
- Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
- Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
- Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
- Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
- Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount
- Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
- Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
- Programming Still Sucks
- Write some software, give it away for free
- Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
- The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
- For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
- Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
- AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
- Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
- To my students
- United Wizards of the Coast
- The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
- Do I belong in tech anymore?
- Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees
- Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
- Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
- Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
- Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
- NASA Force
- Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?
- The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
- The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)
- Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
- Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI
- What being ripped off taught me
- Shooting down ideas is not a skill
- Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
- The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
- I quit. The clankers won
- Oracle slashes 30k jobs
- Nobody is coming to save your career
- Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?
- Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
- The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI
- White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit
- “Collaboration” is bullshit
- What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves
- Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'
- You are not your job
- Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
- I'm OK being left behind, thanks
- Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back
- The return-to-the-office trend backfires
- US Job Market Visualizer
- Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
- Stop Sloppypasta
- 2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March
- I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
- Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war
- ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
- Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
- I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
- Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
- AI doesn't replace white collar work
- Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
- Will Claude Code ruin our team?
- I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years
- Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
- Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
- Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
- Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products
- Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
- My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
- Don't become an engineering manager
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
- Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
- AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
- AI is making junior devs useless
- Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?
- Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
- ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
- I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
- I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
- I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
- The collapse of the econ PhD job market
- Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
- How to make sense of any mess
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
- Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide
- CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians
- The first time I was almost fired from Apple
- Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025)
- Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants
- Open guide to equity compensation
- Strengths Are Your Weaknesses
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)
- Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
- Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1
- Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)
- Bezos' Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business
- Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge
- Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?
- A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
- Quiet Quitting: Why Employees Are Demanding Fairness and Boundaries
- Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting
- All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days
- AI isn't going to kill the software industry
- Life lessons from the first half-century of my career
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
- The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
- Couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs
- Ask HN: Can we just admit we want to replace jobs with AI?
- More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals
- Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'
- I Met Paul Graham Once
- UK's hardware talent is being wasted
- Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?
- A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon
- Nobody cares
- Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
- 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds
- American workers' enthusiasm for their jobs falls to a 10-year low
- JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate
- Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers
- Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes
- If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?
- 'So immoral': gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages
- What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
- 41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI
- TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work
- The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
- Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff
- The Aging Programmer [video]
- Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year
- I live my life a quarter century at a time
- Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
- Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024)
- Conscious unbossing
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)
- Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
- Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
- One of my papers got declined today
- I was wrong about the ethics crisis
- Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
- I automated my job application process
- The trap of "I am not an extrovert"
- Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
- My Colleague Julius
- I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24
- Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season
- Jaguar Land Rover electric car whistleblower sacked
- A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job (2021)
- Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'
- Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
- Time for a code-yellow?: A blunt instrument that works
- Ask HN: How do you find part time work?
- Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it
- Don't Get Distracted (2017)
- Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)
- An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews
- My second year without a job
- Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
- Mistakes as a new manager
- Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
- How to grow professional relationships
- Egoless Engineering
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2024)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)
- Sitters and Standers
- Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?
- Performance improvement plans are on the rise
- It is humiliating to have to do LeetCode grinding for
- Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
- Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?
- A career-ending mistake
- How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired
- The 'Return to Office' Lies
- Linux CoC Announces Decision Wrt Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs)
- I'm a developer not a compiler
- Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday
- When did estimates turn into deadlines?
- How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)
- Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies
- Managing High Performers
- Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
- Ask HN: What open source projects need help?
- Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?
- Please stop the coding challenges
- The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast
- Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
- Looking for a Job Is Tough
- Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home
- How I ship projects at big tech companies
- Salary expectations questions – How should you answer them? (2020)
- What Is a Staff Engineer?
- I quit Google to work for myself (2018)
- Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one
- Fisker EVs Hired an IT Spy Who Funneled Millions to N. Korea's Missile Program
- Boeing ends crippling strike as workers accept latest offer
- New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
- Unfortunate things about performance reviews (2021)
- A change of heart regarding employee metrics
- Stop saying "just" (2019)
- If you need the money, don't take the job
- My Time Working at Stripe
- Interview gone wrong
- The decline of the working musician
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2024)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)
- Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers
- Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?
- Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
- On Good Software Engineers
- ADHD and managing your professional reputation
- Ask HN: Is it wrong to use my personal laptop for work?
- Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)
- Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy
- Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
- AWS CEO tells workers to quit if they don't want to come back to the office
- Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning
- 'They refused to let me go': Japanese turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs
- Another burnout post
- The science of "Zoom fatigue"
- Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy household goods'
- Embedded Rust in Production?
- The military is an impossible place for hackers, and what to do about it (2018)
- UCLA professor says he's homeless due to low pay
- Working from home is powering productivity
- Software Engineer Pay Heatmap Across the US
- Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
- AI won't replace human devs anytime soon
- I Stayed
- Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer
- Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan
- Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring?
- Life, death, and retirement
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2024)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)
- Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike
- US East and Gulf coast ports face shutdown as union announces intent to strike
- AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world
- Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
- The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity
- Working in the office 5 days/week to build company culture is a myth: PwC report
- Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors
- Tech jobs have dried up
- Mozilla has fired their Chief Product Officer after cancer diagnosis
- IBM is quietly axing jobs, source says
- Backlash over Amazon's return to office comes as workers demand higher wages
- Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray
- 26-Year-Old EY Employee Succumbs to 'Work Stress' Four Months After Joining
- Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'
- What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy
- Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
- How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire
- How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
- Retiring from the idea of retirement
- CS Career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out
- Boeing workers vote to strike
- Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
- Algorithmic Wage Discrimination (2023)
- New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike
- Companies need junior devs
- The expected value of the game is positive regardless of Ballmer’s strategy
- Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
- Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care
- I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me
- Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question
- Long-term unemployment leads to disengagement and apathy
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2024)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)
- Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews
- The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
- A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017)
- We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
- Valve New Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]
- No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda
- Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)
- GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US
- What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg
- Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?
- Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
- Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now?
- Bug squash: An underrated interview question
- On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)
- Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
- AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care
- Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)
- CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office
- Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture
- The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass
- Workers are stuck in place because everyone is too afraid of a recession to quit
- The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
- DEF CON's response to the badge controversy
- Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit
- Scrum is the Symptom, not the Problem
- I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's (2000)
- Declaring 'Crisis,' South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week
- Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time
- The introverts are winning
- A network engineer in search of greener pastures
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2024)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)
- Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon
- Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland
- Ask HN: What's an appropriate compensation counter offer in London 2024?
- Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
- The workers have spoken: They're staying home
- Ask HN: Every day feels like prison
- Panic at the Job Market
- Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks
- Ask HN: How can I find something worthwhile to do?
- Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking
- How to Know When It's Time to Go
- How do we make remote meetings not suck? (2018)
- Use a work journal
- As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
- Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement
- The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)
- Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?
- Ask HN: Has anyone been fired for ignoring in-office mandates?
- “Bullshit jobs” is a terrible, curiosity-killing concept
- “Technical” Skills
- Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
- Advantages of incompetent management
- The magic of small engineering teams
- Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine
- The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2024)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)
- Shipt’s algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back
- Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews
- The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
- 6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
- Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout
- Ask HN: Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?
- Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay
- Greece introduces the six day work week
- Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off
- Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization
- Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)
- More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work
- Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"
- Ask HN: Tell me your stories of taking lower paid work to be happier
- Social-Media Influencers Aren't Getting Rich–They're Barely Getting By
- Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest
- IKEA's retailer's solved global 'unhappy worker' crisis by raising salaries
- Ask HN: Is it just me, or does the job market for IT seem bad today?
- Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
- Ask HN: What are your personal red flags when you're interviewing at a company?
- Why Triplebyte Failed
- Senior employees, ordered back to the office, are jumping ship
- Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)
- The Functional Programming Hiring Problem
- The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs
- Ask HN: How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior?
- Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
- Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)
- America's commute to work is getting longer and longer
- I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
- Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2024)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)
- If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
- Some Americans have stopped tipping. Should you do the same?
- Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel
- Teacher Pay and per Student Spending
- Show HN: CommitAsync – $100K+ dev jobs 100% remote only
- 'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think
- Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
- Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers
- Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
- Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
- Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?
- Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
- Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees
- OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
- Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)
- LDAPjs decomissioned by maintainer over hateful email
- AI is the reason interviews are harder now
- Ask HN: Disillusioned after AI?
- Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
- Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people
- Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings
- The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
- VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'
- Recruiters are going analog to fight the AI application overload
- Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
- MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
- In Praise of Idleness (1932)
- Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
- Tesla slashes its summer internship program
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)
- Don't Just Say "Hello" in Chat
- Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time
- Google lays off its Python team
- I'm giving up on open source
- Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics
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