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# Work

• Google ditches DEI hiring goals
• Meta to begin company-wide layoffs next week, internal memo reveals shift toward AI hiring
• DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
• Musk to rehire Treasury DOGE staffer behind racist posts after Trump endorses idea
• Despair-Driven Development: Harnessing Malaise for Effective Software Engineering - 155
• On Diversity - 155
• Unexpected Benefits of Building Your Own Tools - 155
• No one is disrupting banks - 155
• Meeting cost calculator - 153
• When Job Hopping Doesn’t Make Sense - 153
• What I learned from Software Engineering at Google - 153
• Jingle Shells: How Virtual Offices Enable a Facade of Legitimacy - 153
• Does the tech industry really need so many workers on H-1B visas? - 153
• BlackRock Plans to Hire 1,200 People for Ramp-Up in India - 154
• Meta Shakes up its Generative AI, Messenger and Facebook Units - 154
• Workday to Cut Nearly 2,000 Workers on Profitability Focus - 154
• LinkedIn’s bet on TikTok-style video is paying off in a big way - 154
• AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications - 154
• How to have a career even when OpenAI’s o3 drops - 154
• LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI ‘Co-Workers’ Looking for Jobs - 154
• Reverse Engineering My #1 Hacker News Article - 152
• Twelve Dudes and a Hype Tunnel: Scenes from the ‘Super Bowl for Excel Nerds’ - 152
• How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain - 152
• On Ghost Engineers And Proof or a Lack thereof - 146
• The “Quiet Quitting” Myth is Toxic for Tech - 146
• Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters - 146
• Why Leetcode Is So Popular - 146
• Bosses struggle to police workers’ use of AI - 147
• FTC warns of online task job scams hooking victims like gambling - 147
• Modern Work Fucking Sucks. - 147
• Simple Sabotage For The 21st Century - 147
• Simple sabotage - 147
• Almost 65,000 Job Cuts Were Announced In April—And AI Was Blamed For The Most Losses Ever - 147
• A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow - 147
• Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study - 147
• Return-to-Office Mandates and Brain Drain - 147
• Amazon’s RTO delays exemplify why workers get so mad about mandates - 148
• Working with engineers that focus on doing fancy shit - 148
• Measure What Matters - 148
• How I ship projects at big tech companies - 148
• Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy - 148
• Google laid off 10% of its management, VP roles as part of layoffs to push for efficiency, says CEO Sundar Pichai - 149
• Re-imagining Technical Interviews: Valuing Experience Over Exam Skills - 149
• Keeping a CHANGELOG at Work - 149
• Back to office resistance is about autonomy, not location - 149
• Apple illegally spied on employees, silenced discussions on pay and work conditions, alleges new lawsuit - 145
• Blame AI for your gruelling job interview - 145
• Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from? - 145
• Glassdoor Worklife Trends 2025 - 145
• Your AI code generators are your new net-negative developers - 145
• The Most Hated Way of Firing Someone Is More Popular Than Ever. It’s the Age of the PIP. - 145
• We can all be AI engineers – and we can do it with open source models - 145
• Salary expectations questions - How should you answer them? - 145
• Bad questions for Senior Frontend Dev Interview - 145
• Why sprints are taking the joy out of building software - 142
• The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager - 142
• AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias - 142
• 7 simple habits of the best engineers I know - 142
• Welcoming More Girls to Computer Science in Middle School - 141
• Please just stop saying “just” - 141
• How to land your first developer job - 141
• 5 Lessons I learned the hard way from 10+ years as a software engineer - 141
• Leaving Stripe - 141
• Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring? - 141
• Being an engineering manager at Amazon - 141
• Reddit 1000 applies - 140
• AI ‘bubble’ will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO - 140
• Software Engineer Titles Have (Almost) Lost All Their Meaning - 140
• I got promoted in < 1.5 years at Amazon to mid level c - 140
• Pay for job changers rose at the slowest pace in more than 3 years - 140
• Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming - 140
• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend. - 140
• What You Work On » How Hard You Work - 140
• On One-on-Ones - Insights From 1,500 Meetings - 140
• LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters - 140
• unfortunate startup pivots. a short list. - 139
• What Your Job Ad Says About You - 139
• What I tell people new to on-call - 139
• Paying down tech debt: further learnings - 139
• Why I still blog after 15 years ★ - 139
• You Can Choose to Be Someone Who’s Competent in Many Things, or Unbelievably Good at One Thing - 139
• Microsoft to employees: you can continue working from home unless productivity drops - 138
• Open Source is not a Business Model - 138
• Open Source Needs to be Financially Symbiotic - 138
• The Open Source Project Maintainer’s Guide - 138
• No One Builds in Public - 138* Things I’ve learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation - 137
• What Amazon’s strict return to office policy says about remote work - 137
• Conway’s Law: The Hidden Force Shaping Your Software Architecture - 137
• 91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship - 137
• My learnings from 7 failed tech interviews - 137
• Mentorship: underrated perk of big tech - 137
• 1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant To Hire Recent College Graduates - 136
• ‘Lazy and Mediocre’ HR Team Fired After Manager’s Own CV Gets Auto-Rejected in Seconds, Exposing System Failure - 136
• Keeping your A-Team together with developer AI - 136
• Let small fires burn - 135
• Doing support makes you a better engineer - 135
• How we updated our Performance Review process to help engineers grow - 135
• Budget Planning Guide 2025: Security And Risk - 135
• Why Don’t Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? - 135
• AI development and agile don’t mix well, study shows - 135
• Why Scrum is Stressing You Out - 135
• Salesforce’s New AI Strategy Acknowledges That AI Will Take Jobs - 134
• What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy - 134
• Amazon kills remote working, tells workers to be in office 5 days a week - 134
• Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week - 134
• Security Training & Awareness - 10 Essential Techniques - 134
• How to communicate tradeoffs so leaders will listen - 134
• How to Lead Your Team when the House Is on Fire - 134
• Europe to End “Salary Secrecy”: Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026 - 133
• Your company needs Junior devs - 133
• My Tech Promotion Algorithm - 133
• Semi-Annual Reminder to Learn and Hire for Web Standards - 133
• I just crossed $1 million on GitHub Sponsors - 133
• Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor - 133
• How close is AI to replacing product managers? - 132
• No “Hello”, No “Quick Call”, and no Meetings Without an Agenda - 132
• We’ve Been Lied To About Work - 132
• AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part - 132* Recession and crisis in the IT industry: 7 months of interviews with 50 managers from Europe and the USA – a subjective view - 131
• Why does getting a job in tech suck right now? (Is it AI?!?) - 131
• Leaked Microsoft pay data shows how much hundreds of software engineers report making in units like Azure and AI - 131
• The Art of Interviewing Your Interviewer to Uncover a Company’s True Culture - 131
• Is the Open Source Bubble about to Burst? - 131
• It works on my machine. Why? - 130
• How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI: a detailed 4-stage roadmap with links to the best learning resources that I’m aware of. - 130
• Software estimates have never worked and never will - 130
• CEOs Are Running Companies From Afar Even as Workers Return to Office - 130
• The Trends #4: Developers hate their job, but like to code outside work - 130
• American workers are stuck in place because everyone is too afraid of a recession to quit - 129
• Solving Accessibility Barriers: How Ongoing Training Can Help Prioritize and Remediate Issues - 129
• Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work - 129
• Google’s ex-CEO blames working from home for the company’s AI struggles: ‘Google decided that work-life balance was more important than winning’ - 129
• Onboarding as a Web Engineer @ Pinterest - 129
• Humans » Data - 129
• Recruiters are drowning in a flood of AI-generated applications - 129
• I made a huge mistake in becoming a Engineering Manager - 129
• The Senior Engineer Illusion: What I Thought vs. What I Learned - 129
• “20% for tech debt” doesn’t work - 128
• Return-to-office mandates hurt employee retention, productivity, survey says - 128
• Dell Makes Cuts to Boost AI Pivot, Reportedly Laying Off 12,500 Employees - 128
• Don’t Ask Permission To Do Your Job Correctly: Avoiding The Technical Debt Trap - 128
• Weak Soft Skills: Why you are stuck at the Senior engineer level - 128
• Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ - 128
• Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work - 128
• X is reportedly closing its San Francisco office - 128
• Microsoft is binding employee bonuses and promotions to security performance - 128
• Should the daily stand-up die? - 128
• How To Get Promoted (Without Getting Lucky) - 128
• Intel allegedly plans imminent lay off of thousands of employees to fuel turnaround - 128
• Every company should be owned by its employees - 127
• The other shoe dropping on ‘AI’ and office work - 127
• How a Microsoft App is Powering Employee Surveillance - 127
• Junior (IC3) to Staff (IC6) via Job Hopping - 127
• $700bn delusion: Does using data to target specific audiences make advertising more effective? Latest studies suggest not - 127
• AI interview services say they’re eliminating bias — but not everyone agrees. - 127
• Everlasting jobstoppers: How an AI bot-war destroyed the online job market - 127
• ‘Botshit’ is an example of how AI is making customer service worse - 126
• Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects - 126
• The rise and fall of software developer jobs - 126
• Why Coding Exercises in Technical Interviews Are a Terrible Idea - 126
• The case for conferences in 2024 - 126
• In Praise of Small Pull Requests - 126
• Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job? - 125
• The ghost jobs haunting your career search - 125
• What I’ve learned about Open Source community over 30 years - 123
• Malte Handbook - 123
• How Vercel Works 🔍 — with Malte Ubl - 123
• The Death of the Junior Developer - 123
• Leaving the web industry
• Maybe You’re Not Sick of Programming
• DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon
• Forget “show, don’t tell”. Engage, don’t show!
• The rise—and fall—of the software developer
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a no one-on-one meetings rule for his 55 direct reports
• Hugging Face CEO says he hears from 10 AI founders a week who want to sell their startups
• How to help someone use a computer.
• The empty brain Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
• How to create software quality
• Programming Is Mostly Thinking
• For whatever it’s worth: my advice on job hunting in tech
• Do new devs rely on AI to much
• Apple insider
• AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers - 122
• Nearly half of Dell workers opt for full-time remote work, even though it means no promotions - 122
• Anthropic CEO says a universal basic income isn’t enough to address AI job losses - 122
• The real 10x developer makes their whole team better - 122
• Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - 122
• My spiciest take on tech hiring - 122
• Designer engagement report - 122
• Senior Engineer Fatigue - 122
• Ask HN: What are your personal red flags when you’re interviewing at a company? - 122
• AI’s Hidden Opportunities: Shawn “swyx” Wang on New Use Cases and Careers - 122
• OpenAI CTO: AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn’t Exist Anyway - 122
• The state of AI in early 2024: Gen AI adoption spikes and starts to generate value - 120
• Opinions after a decade of professional software engineering - 120
• Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit - 120
• Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You - 120
• AI won’t eat your job, but it will eat your salary - 119
• Understanding the real threat generative AI poses to our jobs - 119
• Some Thoughts As I Sit Here in Another Standup - 119
• Spend 2 hours discussing, make the wrong decision anyway - 119
• Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders — Lessons From Stripe, Uber & Carta - 119
• Staying Sharp Why Interview Even When You’re Happy
• Great Resignation’s job-hoppers aren’t as happy as those who stuck around - 116
• How contributing to open source helped you become a better developer or landed you a job - 116
• Don’t ask to ask, just ask - 116
• No hello - 116
• 10 lessons from 12 years at Google
• AI Engineer Compensation Trends Q1 2024
• AI engineers at Microsoft and other companies are reportedly experiencing burnout
• Flutter team layoffs
• Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking
• 7 Tips to Crush Your Onboarding from An Apple Staff Engineer - 118
• Embracing Diversity and Inclusion at Workplaces - 118
• How long does it take 3 moderate-level devs to build spotify - 118
• Resume Tip - 118
• AI is the reason interviews are harder now - 118
• Great Resignation’s job-hoppers aren’t as happy as those who stuck around - 116
• How contributing to open source helped you become a better developer or landed you a job - 116
• Don’t ask to ask, just ask - 116
• Job ad advice for developers - 116
• There are certain problem classes that I describe as a “Jell-O elephant” - 116
• No hello - 116
• Managing up
• The best manager I ever had
• My first promo rejection, a blessing in disguise
• Software developer salaries around the world
• Exactly what to say in code reviews
• Improving Code Reviews with Storytelling
• Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes And I Am Not Laughing
• An engineer’s guide to talking to users
• They thought they were joining an accelerator — instead they lost their startups - 115
• A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check - 115
• Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches - 115
• 5 tips to supercharge your developer career in 2024 - 115
• Power to the people: Get feedback on your CV from a community of Senior Software Engineers - 113
• From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38 - 113
• How I engineered effective meetings to stop wasting time - 113
• Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’soperations
• Why We Hate Working for Big Companies - 114
• Corporate Open Source is Dead - 114
• Ground Rules of Fairness at Work - 114
• Why Aren’t We Talking About Continuous Improvement? - 114
• Intel and others commit to building open generative AI tools for the enterprise
• Transparent Vice
• Tesla will lay off more than 10% of global workforce: Read the Elon Musk memo
• Tech executive foresees billion-dollar boom for ‘AI girlfriends’
• Fixing All The Bugs Won’t Solve All The Problems – Deming’s Path Of Frustration
• I asked 100 devs why they aren’t shipping faster. Here’s what I learned
• “If this one guy got hit by a bus, the world’s software would fall apart.”
• 10 Must-Reads for Engineering Leaders
• 503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned
• Advice to Young People, The Lies I Tell Myself
• Asking for help is a core developer skill
• Don’t Let Perfectionism Stall Your Software Development Project
• High-Functioning Workaholism
• I’m A Developer Not A Compiler
• Managing Up: How to Meet The Unspoken Needs of Your Manager
• The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT
• Developing Essential Soft Skills for Engineers and Leaders - 110
• A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans - 110
• Learning to code with and without AI - 110
• Why great AI produces lazy humans - 110
• The State of Engineering Productivity in 2024 - 110
• Fear makes you a worse programmer
• The Tech Lead’s Playbook
• How AI could explode the economy
• STABILITY AI IS FALLING APART
• Juraj Malenica - Death to the invincible engineer
• The Tech Talent Acquisition Landscape
• The best engineering interview question I’ve ever gotten, Part 1
• 3 software development principles I wish I knew earlier in my career YAGNI, KISS, and DRY
• NVIDIA Just Launched FREE Courses in AI
• Programmers are bad at managing state
• Improving OKRs
• Brutally honest career advice to my younger self
• Why I Charge a $100,000 Software Licensing Fee For 10 Lines of Code
• What Makes a Great Software Engineer? - 111
• What we learned about hiring from our first five employees - 111
• ‘HR is not your friend’: why frustrated workers are hiring reps of their own - 111
• Baldur Bjarnason The one about the web developer job market - 109
• Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent - 109
• Glassdoor demanding real names - 109
• How to build a career you enjoy as an engineer. What I wish someone told me when I started - 109
• Why job interviews became such a nightmare - 106
• Leaving LinkedIn -Choosing Engineering Excellence Over Expediency - 106
• What the heck is going on with the UX job market? - 106
• Job ad with a red flag in every sentence - 106
• Improving Developer Experience Drives Profitability - 106
• How To Fix Broken Teams
• It’s not just your imagination: tech job interviews are getting worse
• The unwritten rules (till now) of negotiating with Meta
• How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
• Engineering is more about people than tech
• When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign First
• OpenAI racial bias in CV scanning - 107
• You’re not a weak developer if you don’t always show off your technical excellence - 107
• Context-switching - one of the worst productivity killers in the engineering industry - 107
• An Introvert’s Guide to Visibility in the Workplace - 107
• Hard and soft skills for developers coding in the age of AI - 107
• Four-day week made permanent for most UK firms in world’s biggest trial - 105
• AI won’t eat your job, but it will eat your salary - 105
• I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take this bizarre personality test. - 105
• Job interviews out of control - 105
• CodeRev: organize and conduct technical interviews using code reviews rather than leetcode. - 104
• Commercial large language models’ abilities to solve competitive programming problems can be significantly boosted by carefully guiding its processes through clever prompt engineering.
• Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior - 104
• SOC Interview Questions
• Coding interviews are effective - 104
• 10 Things That Surprised Me About Software Engineering At Amazon
• Engineers Are Not A Commodity
• From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate
• No, AI user research is not “better than nothing”—it’s much worse - 104
• AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants - 104
• The Performance Improvement Plan is Cruel and Unusual - 103
• How to hire low experience, high potential people
• Big Tech jobs have lost their glamour
• How To Onboard
• Should you Stay Technical as an Engineering Manager?
• Finding a New Software Developer Job
• Lessons From Six Years of Self-Employment
• Snap is cutting 10 percent of its staff
• Some thoughts on interviewing Recent experience interviewing candidates, reflections on the job market, and the shift in how people are seeing work fitting into their lives
• Becoming an Engineering Manager - Is It For You?
• When should you give up on a project that doesn’t work?
• 11 Questions Interviewers Can’t Ask (What Creative Professionals Need to Know) - 102
• Who pays technical writers?
• Ratings != Promotions
• How To Drive Meetings A necessary skill for growth to Senior
• Tech layoffs balloon in January as Wall Street rally lifts Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft to records = 101
• Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that? - 101
• Humans Still Cheaper Than AI in Vast Majority of Jobs, MIT Finds - 101
• New MIT CSAIL study suggests that AI won’t steal as many jobs as expected - 101
• What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry - 101
• France fines Amazon $35 million over ‘intrusive’ employee surveillance - 101
• Awesome Behavioral Interviews - 100
• 9 key lessons learned on my path from Engineer to VP - 100
• Remote Work Doesn’t Seem to Affect Productivity, Fed Study Finds
• Research: The Growing Inequality of Who Gets to Work from Home
• Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting them to TikTok. What could go wrong?
• Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian
• Burning out is not a growth hack.
• Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples
• Is Work Life Balance a Myth for Software Engineers?
• 10 Interview Questions Every JavaScript Developer Should Know in 2024 Lots of detail there with explanations. Well done.
• 6 tiny wording tweaks to level up your communication as a software engineer
• 66 Good News Stories You Didn’t Hear About in 2023
• Ads, overlays and paywalls, oh my! How to get around the web’s worst annoyances
• AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced
• Big Tech’s role in enabling link fraudBy Eli Grey
• Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry
• CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024
• Full return to office isn’t the only work model dying. So is fully remote
• Hackers Break into AI Hiring Chatbot, Could Hire and Reject Fast Food Applicants
• HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless…
• How Promotions and Ratings Work - about the process and takeaways for engineers
• I don’t think you need to be civil to puppy-smashers – Terence Eden’s Blog
• Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives
• Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating better weather with a meteorologist
• Tech Predictions for 2024
• The 3 budgets
• The changing economics of open-source software
• The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable
• Want to Be a Better Leader? Stop Thinking About Work After Hours.
• Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time?
• Advice for new software devs who’ve read all those other advice essays
• Developer Nation Survey - 99
• Why, how much, and when you should be taking time off as an engineer - 99
• Nail The Technical Interview In 2024: The Ultimate Guide - 97