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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The Bicycle and the Algorithm: Amber Case on Why AI Has It Backwards

designwhine.com · 9 points · 2 comments

Nolan Bushnell (Atari, Co-Founder) Career Interview (2006) [video]

youtube.com · 6 points · 0 comments

The FBI Doubles Down on Easing 'Bestiality' Hiring Standards

wired.com · 20 points · 5 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?

3 points · 26 comments

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Engineer (Remote/US)

jiga.io · 1 points · 0 comments

Lingo.dev (YC F24) is hiring a senior content engineer (Remote, worldwide)

lingo.dev · 1 points · 0 comments

Doing Everyone Else's Job

yosefk.com · 215 points · 115 comments

Oracle's Cold 6AM Layoff Emails Hit Staff Amid New Wave of Cuts

techtimes.co.uk · 100 points · 189 comments

Cua (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Technical GTM Lead

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

theregister.com · 55 points · 184 comments

New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore

spectrum.ieee.org · 128 points · 381 comments

The AI job market in 2026

ilinmaks.com · 56 points · 74 comments

Bruce Schneier: No, AI doesn't mean the end of mathematics – at least not yet

theguardian.com · 9 points · 0 comments

AI job cuts fell short of forecasts, with 32% expected but only 14% reported

mckinsey.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]

youtube.com · 49 points · 9 comments

Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?

14 points · 30 comments

Jimmy Kimmel Interviews James Talarico

youtube.com · 25 points · 4 comments

Oracle to Spend an Additional $700M on More Job Cuts

bloomberg.com · 13 points · 1 comments

Software people, where are you taking your careers next?

7 points · 9 comments

Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

getzep.com · 1 points · 0 comments

Why Bullshit Jobs Are (Finally) Dying [video]

youtube.com · 27 points · 26 comments

BasedAgents: Give your idle AI agent a paying job

basedagents.ai · 4 points · 8 comments

Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video]

youtube.com · 5 points · 30 comments

What are your plans for when Software Engineering is no longer a viable career?

4 points · 5 comments

Ridge - Connect coding agents to local, SSH, Docker, and S3 resources

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative

learningto.co · 32 points · 54 comments

Orchestrator, spawn and manage Claude Code instances remotely

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

I want a data center job

6 points · 6 comments

Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices

theguardian.com · 5 points · 1 comments