Career

Hacker News

What huge mistake did you make early in your career?

We’ve all been there — a seemingly huge mistake as an intern or Junior developer that you were sure would get you …

Hacker News

How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?

I’ve spent several years working on side projects and would like to return to remote work. I have a bit of management …

Jim Grey

Nine tips for interviewing over Zoom

Don’t let these videoconferencing mistakes be a stumbling block for a potential employer.

The Wall Street Journal

Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates

I’m not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America’s elite universities. That marks a change. A decade ago I …

99% Derisible

Be a star or a janitor.

For most people, especially early in their careers, there’s just not a lot of agency at work. By and large, junior …

Krebs on Security

How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap

One of the oldest scams around — the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data — is on …

The Miscellaneous Stuff Blog

The Best Way to Deal with a Micromanaging Boss

When an employee is placed in a no-win scenario at work, he has few options. He can place the blame for failure on someone …

Bloomberg

How to Quit Your Job in the Great Post-Pandemic Resignation Boom

If you’re ready to leave, here are some tips on engineering a smooth exit.

Fast Company

10 questions to ask in a job interview that will really expose a company's culture

Culture is felt through the behaviors that are reinforced or discouraged on a day-to-day basis on teams. If you want to get a …

Hacker News

What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

I’m an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible.

Austin Z. Henley

All my career rejections

I’ve been reflecting on rejections lately. I’ve been fortunate to have more successes than I had ever imagined, …

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Want to Learn How Things Really Work at Your New Job? Talk to the People at the Bottom

New research shows that people of all ranks look to low-level peers for information about organizational social norms.

interviewing.io

6 red flags I saw while doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days

Even though the stories I’ll be sharing come from my marathon of technical interviews, these red flags do not apply …

André Jonas

Remote Work Interviews, Part I: Applying

In the following 2 months I’ve applied to remote positions with over 10 companies hiring remotely such as 1Password, …

Temporary heresy

Talent is largely a myth

With the amount of conversations, conference talks and hype going on around talent, you would expect people will have an …

BBC

The computers rejecting your job application

I wondered: is it fair for a computer alone to accept or reject your job application?

Welcome to the fast-growing world of AI …

Digiday

'Don't care about those perks': Employees are no longer staying at companies for a cool culture

As employees in industries like tech, advertising and publishing have worked from home for the majority of 2020, the perks of …

Benjamin Yolken

Quitting a new job

Two years ago, I did something that I’d never done in my career before- I left a job (at Nuro) only a few months after …

Zain Rizvi

Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe

In the decade since I’ve lost track of how many hours I’ve spent in the interview room, on both sides of the …

Zain Amro

Working for a startup makes less sense

Today, there’s an interesting startup dilemma that has become more obvious in the collective consciousness of tech …

The Atlantic

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

But I had started to wonder: Can I really keep this going? I work like a maniac. But even if I stayed at it 12 hours a day, …

Farnam Street

How Performance Reviews Can Kill Your Culture

Performance reviews are designed to motivate and bring the best out of our teams, but they often do the opposite. …

Hacker News

How do I understand the results of my job search?

I’m in the middle of a job search. Here are some stats:

• 50 applications submitted
• 21 no response
• 3 no longer hiring
• 11 …

Sametab

The Secret of Employee Engagement

People are the single most important asset in modern organizations. As talent scarcity is increasingly becoming one of the …

CityLab

Talent May Be Shifting Away From Superstar Cities

In recent years, America has increasingly been defined by a winner-take-all geography, with coastal superstar cities like New …

Barron's

What Job Applicant 'Ghosting' Says About the Current Workplace

Two-sided ghosting in this transactional world signals that the two sides are no longer very invested in making a good match. …

Forge

The Most Important Question in a Job Interview, and How to Answer It

‘Do you have any questions for me?’ is a make-or-break moment.

First Round Review

40 Favorite Interview Questions from Some of the Sharpest Folks We Know

What follows is an exclusive list of 40 interview questions, sent to us by the sharpest folks we’ve met or just …

Fast Company

I took a huge pay cut for a more meaningful job, and it was nothing like I expected

Most Americans say they would give up a more lucrative job for a more meaningful job that pays less in a heartbeat. But …