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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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Salary 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