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 CareerMiso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town
defector.com · 6 points · 287 comments
Bypassing Claude's upload limits, 4x (500 MB → 2 GB)
blog.zernote.com · 12 points · 2 comments
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer
tasklet.ai · 1 points · 0 comments
Working from home? That will be extra. Renters rage over new fee
usatoday.com · 15 points · 7 comments
Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring a Senior Chemical Process Engineer
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
For the cheap price of a permanent tatto, get access to job interview
20 points · 15 comments
Marvelous – A Markdown editor where every save is a Git commit
github.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Resume Tailor – Fit your resume to any job
tailor.resume.academy · 2 points · 2 comments
YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed
15 points · 14 comments
PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage
discuss.rubyonrails.org · 5 points · 0 comments
OnlyVibes – No Fuss Realtime Interviews
onlyvibes.cc · 3 points · 2 comments
Job Finder India – an honest job-fit tool that runs in your AI CLI
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Jobsearch – unified CLI for scraping job boards
github.com · 5 points · 6 comments
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
ochagavia.nl · 33 points · 312 comments
AE Studio recruiting pirates to recover treasure located by AI
ae.studio · 14 points · 2 comments
An Interview with the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
404media.co · 25 points · 3 comments
Semi lucrative careers after tech?
6 points · 10 comments
Remote Work Is Not Making Us Miserable
reason.com · 11 points · 3 comments
I'm sorry I didn't respond to your job application
xcancel.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
Interview with Boris Cherny [video]
youtube.com · 73 points · 80 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 · 17 points · 3 comments
Turn SSH X11 Forward to WebSocket – remote apps flow to you workstation
3 points · 1 comments
'Who wants to be hired' now outnumbers 'Who is hiring'
ej29-r3d.github.io · 5 points · 1 comments
Desktui – a remote desktop client for your terminal
github.com · 11 points · 0 comments