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 CareerWhat is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
siepr.stanford.edu · 301 points · 380 comments
Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab
maxmynter.com · 54 points · 21 comments
Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look to Allow for Web-Based Remote Installations
phoronix.com · 13 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 · 54 points · 90 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 · 3 comments
AI companies stripping universities of their best computer scientists
theatlantic.com · 10 points · 4 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 · 23 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 · 5 points · 1 comments
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
sive.rs · 209 points · 97 comments
Police Keep Losing Their Jobs for Using Flock Cameras to Stalk People
motherjones.com · 9 points · 1 comments
I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
citizendot.github.io · 482 points · 125 comments
Paste a job description, get a broken Kubernetes cluster to fix
prepme.io · 3 points · 2 comments
Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer
1 points · 0 comments
Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS
en.help.roblox.com · 266 points · 106 comments
Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)
kalzumeus.com · 5 points · 2 comments
I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
5 points · 19 comments
AI builders outnumber AI governance hires 7:1 in Europe
axipro.co · 8 points · 13 comments
Agent scans 130 careers pages nightly, scores jobs vs. your resume
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Kaiser nurses say surveillance of them is undermining healthcare
themarkup.org · 7 points · 0 comments
TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time
1 points · 0 comments
Former Intel employee sues over firing, saying disability prevented him from RTO
oregonlive.com · 4 points · 0 comments