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 CareerSalary raise calculator with tax and inflation estimates
salaryincreasecalculator.app · 4 points · 0 comments
The Rise of the 1 am Job Interview
wired.com · 3 points · 0 comments
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People's Homes
wired.com · 21 points · 4 comments
How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
ironicsans.ghost.io · 111 points · 137 comments
Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding
coinbase.com · 3 points · 0 comments
DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself
manish.sh · 20 points · 5 comments
Foxes, Lions, and LLMs: The Machiavellian Game of Tech Hiring
twitter.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Synchrium, a synchronized timer where remote peers meet at zero
synchrium.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice
whodunnitai.com · 187 points · 89 comments
Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite"
breakintochat.com · 4 points · 15 comments
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza
theguardian.com · 21 points · 0 comments
Job Seeker – AI agent skills for job searching
github.com · 5 points · 1 comments
My WHOOP has no screen. My Kindle had no job. So I put them together
github.com · 11 points · 5 comments
SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost
404media.co · 101 points · 68 comments
Interview with Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) on Making Things
digitalseams.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause
bigthink.com · 45 points · 67 comments
SAP stops all travel and hiring, telling employees "we need to be disciplined"
timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 16 points · 2 comments
Qwen 3.8-Max Preview
manish.sh · 3 points · 0 comments
U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower
wsj.com · 72 points · 3 comments
U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
nbcnews.com · 326 points · 356 comments
Louisiana AG Liz Murrill Keeps Opposing Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted
propublica.org · 7 points · 1 comments
AI generated over 95% of China's new microdramas in Q1 2026
channelnewsasia.com · 5 points · 3 comments
LiminalML – Study ML or SWE at interview depth, grounded in your resume
liminalml.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
franciscotrindade.me · 82 points · 105 comments
Paste a job listing, see if it's still live on employer's own site
rolesweep.com · 2 points · 0 comments
OpenAI pays $3.2M in US probe over hiring foreign workers
reuters.com · 16 points · 0 comments
Recruiting/interview tool for recs, hiring managers and interviewers
toprec.io · 3 points · 1 comments
Why coding agents belong in remote sandboxes
superconductor.com · 11 points · 0 comments
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Why remote roles are region specific and not 100% remote?
3 points · 9 comments