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 Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
citizendot.github.io · 442 points · 121 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 · 257 points · 85 comments
Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)
kalzumeus.com · 5 points · 1 comments
I am not able to find a job. Should I switch stacks?
5 points · 3 comments
AI builders outnumber AI governance hires 7:1 in Europe
axipro.co · 8 points · 9 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
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 · 3 comments
Remote Attestation
liamcvw.com · 14 points · 5 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 · 0 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 · 19 comments
The revenge of the philosophy majors
nytimes.com · 162 points · 263 comments
Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
53 points · 34 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
Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
151 points · 520 comments
Who is hiring? (July 2026)
246 points · 386 comments