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 CareerI gave my job search data an MCP interface
ackd.app · 4 points · 4 comments
Job listings scraped daily from 8k company career pages
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
tasklet.ai · 1 points · 0 comments
Job Recession in Higher Education
gadlevanon.substack.com · 15 points · 0 comments
Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Macsomnia – close your MacBook lid while keeping long jobs alive
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back
cnn.com · 73 points · 37 comments
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
rustdesk.com · 131 points · 53 comments
The Jobless Boom Has Arrived
wsj.com · 9 points · 1 comments
Sea-ice extent in the Greenland Sea using remote sensing from 2017 to 2024
sciencedirect.com · 3 points · 0 comments
ApplyWise – I built an AI layer for the job application process
applywise.eu · 2 points · 0 comments
The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI–and Just Took a Job at OpenAI
wsj.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Tell HN: In 2021, there were 4.5 jobs per job seeker vs. 2.5 job seekers/job now
6 points · 3 comments
North Korea's Operation to Conquer the American Job Market
wsj.com · 4 points · 5 comments
ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)
atg.science · 1 points · 0 comments
Interspectr – automated interview prep generated from a job posting
interspectr.com · 2 points · 1 comments
How are you finding the job market in 2026?
5 points · 6 comments
I built a golf career management SIM (like Basketball GM, but golf)
rainydaygc.com · 15 points · 4 comments
Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Seisin – a desktop app that turns your job search into analytics
getseisin.com · 2 points · 0 comments
OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data
ojcp.dev · 32 points · 10 comments
I built this for other job seekers – local, your own API keys
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Interview questions assume candidates can afford Claude Code Max
leaddev.com · 6 points · 1 comments
GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers
job-boards.greenhouse.io · 1 points · 0 comments
We built a job board where the employers aren't human. Here's what broke
4 points · 4 comments
Capto – alerts when a background job goes quiet, with breadcrumbs
capto.run · 3 points · 1 comments
Top adviser to Iran's Revolutionary Guard leader sits down for rare interview
pbs.org · 13 points · 7 comments
Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding
coinbase.com · 5 points · 0 comments
We tracked 800 European design engineer job ads. The role has no agreed title
hymera.co · 7 points · 10 comments
Salary raise calculator with tax and inflation estimates
salaryincreasecalculator.app · 4 points · 0 comments