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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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CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median

krisshamloo.com · 13 points · 93 comments

Remote Attestation

liamcvw.com · 14 points · 109 comments

Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts

hnwork.app · 16 points · 5 comments

What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?

e360.yale.edu · 20 points · 116 comments

InterviewWatch – Detect AI Assistance During Live Technical Interviews

interviewwatch.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Answering "why do you want to relocate?" during interviews

relocateme.substack.com · 16 points · 38 comments

The revenge of the philosophy majors

nytimes.com · 164 points · 271 comments

Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1

53 points · 35 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

9mothers.com · 1 points · 0 comments

L9gpu – GPU telemetry that ties each GPU to the K8s pod or Slurm job

github.com · 20 points · 0 comments

Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario

wsj.com · 99 points · 103 comments

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

151 points · 525 comments

Who is hiring? (July 2026)

246 points · 420 comments

I got tired of spending 3hrs daily on job applications,so I automated it

jobspire.co.in · 5 points · 3 comments

Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

bloomberg.com · 632 points · 555 comments

Big AI labs are hiring philosophers

economist.com · 155 points · 141 comments

Job application asked for my SAT scores

mrmarket.lol · 162 points · 388 comments

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

david.newgas.net · 847 points · 424 comments

Wildcard (YC W25) is hiring an applied ML engineer

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York

fastcompany.com · 225 points · 139 comments

Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids

mcsweeneys.net · 210 points · 185 comments

EU Air travellers to enjoy free cabin luggage and keep delay compensation

euronews.com · 33 points · 13 comments

Remote work is bad for you

mrmarket.lol · 14 points · 12 comments

Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

reuters.com · 1356 points · 998 comments

Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production

mmc.vc · 107 points · 92 comments