Career stories
Career decisions in tech — compensation, interviewing, management transitions, and burnout — generate some of HN's most widely read threads. This archive collects those discussions for people navigating their professional path.
Salary surveys, layoff experiences, and advice for junior developers surface regularly with candid community input.
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RSS feed for CareerAn Interview with the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
404media.co · 13 points · 2 comments
Semi lucrative careers after tech?
6 points · 2 comments
Remote Work Is Not Making Us Miserable
reason.com · 8 points · 2 comments
If you want to find a developer job abroad in 2026, please read this
relocateme.substack.com · 9 points · 0 comments
Permanym – for hiring teams overwhelmed by AI resume spam
permanym.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Hiring Method – a deterministic, math-driven recruitment platform
hiring-method.com · 5 points · 0 comments
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper
up.codes · 1 points · 0 comments
The Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed "Zero" Kids
newrepublic.com · 10 points · 0 comments
Turn SSH X11 Forward to WebSocket – remote apps flow to you workstation
3 points · 1 comments
Desktui – a remote desktop client for your terminal
github.com · 7 points · 0 comments
What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
siepr.stanford.edu · 64 points · 70 comments
Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab
maxmynter.com · 26 points · 10 comments
Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look to Allow for Web-Based Remote Installations
phoronix.com · 10 points · 0 comments
Working Async – The new wave of remote work is async-first
workingasync.io · 7 points · 0 comments
Robotics startups are hiring across several roles
robotclub.substack.com · 2 points · 0 comments
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon
theguardian.com · 47 points · 83 comments
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Setting up a remote environment for agentic coding on a VPS
ma.ttias.be · 4 points · 1 comments
OneWayInterview – type a job role, AI builds the async video interview
onewayinterview.com · 2 points · 1 comments
AI companies stripping universities of their best computer scientists
theatlantic.com · 7 points · 3 comments
Pixar lays off over 100 Bay Area workers using ElastiGirl letterhead
sfgate.com · 6 points · 2 comments
What's the best AI coding tool today?
2 points · 2 comments
West Virginia paid digital nomads to move there during Covid. Many are staying
npr.org · 10 points · 3 comments
Hans Moravec Was Right About AI. What About the Fate of Mankind?
nymag.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Interview with a Maintainer
nesbitt.io · 19 points · 9 comments
Single-click and remote OpenCode session right in the browser
2 points · 0 comments
Volkswagen CFO addresses plant closures, job losses as profits sink
cnbc.com · 3 points · 1 comments
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
sive.rs · 117 points · 29 comments
Police Keep Losing Their Jobs for Using Flock Cameras to Stalk People
motherjones.com · 6 points · 0 comments
I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
citizendot.github.io · 442 points · 121 comments