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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Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

54 points · 56 comments

EchoVault, an app that interviews you and answers as you after death

apps.apple.com · 9 points · 8 comments

'Ghost job' ads are getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them

wsj.com · 93 points · 55 comments

Remotely unlocking electric scooters

henriemategui.com · 33 points · 6 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers

jobs.ashbyhq.com · 1 points · 0 comments

I built an extension that autofills workday job apps locally

restdayextension.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Layoff in Apple's Vision Products Group prove slow progress in spatial computing

appleinsider.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Young Americans increasingly fear AI will take their jobs

pewresearch.org · 8 points · 17 comments

Layoffs in Apple's Vision Products Group

appleinsider.com · 6 points · 1 comments

The Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA

wsj.com · 6 points · 1 comments

The Modern Tech Career: A Survival Guide

jeremyckahn.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

codedge.de · 133 points · 171 comments

They Shouldn't Know It's a "User" Interview

pawelbrodzinski.substack.com · 7 points · 2 comments

CI jobs artifacts should not be difficult

deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io · 19 points · 15 comments

Algorithm Interview: a conversation between two parrots

3 points · 0 comments

Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff

ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

wsj.com · 450 points · 271 comments

ComputeFence – preflight checks for rented GPU training jobs

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Michigan Insurance Giant Blames "AI" for Layoffs–But Evidence Points Overseas

chrisbrunet.com · 6 points · 0 comments

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

blog.cloudflare.com · 13 points · 5 comments

The job ain't quite the same

prashanth.world · 8 points · 2 comments

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

colorado.edu · 330 points · 356 comments

My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app

github.com · 4 points · 4 comments

ResumeSkip – automatically tailor your resume to jobs

resumeskip.com · 3 points · 3 comments

VoxWork: Anonymous employer reviews before accepting a job offer

voxwork.nanocorp.app · 5 points · 1 comments

Are xPal Total and Remote Wipeout, Terminate Mode Meaningful for Privacy?

2 points · 0 comments

AI Is Upending One of Finance's Cushiest Jobs

bloomberg.com · 11 points · 0 comments

Remote work benefits are much bigger than a paycheck

thehill.com · 34 points · 11 comments