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 CareerNetflix Lays Off About 6% of Staff in Biggest Job Cuts Since 2022
wsj.com · 10 points · 3 comments
A Princeton PhD Applied to 2,300 Jobs. He Still Can't Get One
wsj.com · 15 points · 59 comments
Doctors, Lawyers and Engineers joining AI's $400-an-Hour gig economy
bloomberg.com · 8 points · 1 comments
Microsoft and CMU Team Up to Train Early Career Software Engineers
cs.cmu.edu · 15 points · 80 comments
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers
artie.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Flexport Is Hiring a Biz Ops Leader in Office of CEO
flexport.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Steve Jobs Faked His Way Through Unveiling the iPhone (2017)
nymag.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Taco Bell drive-thru AI bot increased employee retention by making jobs easier
fortune.com · 4 points · 3 comments
Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring
job-boards.greenhouse.io · 1 points · 0 comments
Netflix is laying off 6% of its workforce
abcnews.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?
5 points · 5 comments
Netflix cuts about 6% of jobs in biggest layoff since 2022
reuters.com · 3 points · 0 comments
My old job feels distant now
pinecoder.dev · 34 points · 126 comments
Codex Cloud TUI Can't Spawn Jobs
gist.github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI
boldagents.co · 35 points · 54 comments
Hiring in tech is mostly bullshit
tej.as · 10 points · 1 comments
The cost of getting a job today
weli.dev · 30 points · 66 comments
Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee
theregister.com · 7 points · 2 comments
Netflix is laying off 6% of its workforce
apnews.com · 5 points · 1 comments
Bank of America hired 1000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Mythos
cnbc.com · 8 points · 14 comments
An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling
cjr.org · 121 points · 122 comments
Netflix cuts about 6% of jobs, WSJ reports
reuters.com · 11 points · 0 comments
Netflix Eliminates About 1k Jobs in Biggest Cuts Since 2022
wsj.com · 11 points · 0 comments
Netflix Lays Off 6%, About 1k Jobs, in Biggest Cutbacks to Date
variety.com · 20 points · 2 comments
Netflix is laying off roughly 6% of its workforce
cnbc.com · 30 points · 9 comments
Could you find funding if you didn't want to build a $1-10B business?
7 points · 6 comments
PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery
jobs.lever.co · 1 points · 0 comments
Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring Back End Engineer
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Kroger to lay off 3k corporate employees over 3 years as it leans into AI
apnews.com · 10 points · 1 comments
Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals
marcpaul.io · 5 points · 9 comments