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How to optimize your Github to get more interviews

In order to understand how to use your Github to land an interview, you need to understand who your audience is. Weirdly …

Yahoo

Tech Salaries Are on the Rise, Just Not in New York or San Francisco

Salaries for tech workers in San Francisco and New York have declined for the first time in about five years, a result of the …

Protocol

Here's what happens when men in tech share their salaries

The gender pay gap in tech is well documented, with men in tech receiving offers 3% higher on average than women, and the …

CNBC

'The great reimagination of work': Why 50% of workers want to make a career change

“Over half of the employees want to leave [their jobs], and there’s really two reasons that came out of the …

BBC

Working from home boosts career progress, say half of women

According to a survey for the BBC, just over half (56%) of women said they thought working from home would help them progress …

Lenny's Newsletter

The 10 commandments of salary negotiation

Regardless of how senior or junior you are, most tech folks struggle with negotiation. Partially this is because compensation …

The Verge

Automated hiring software is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable job candidates

A new report says automated systems are hurting the US labor market.

Cornell Chronicle

Rejected internal applicants twice as likely to quit

Internal job applicants who face rejection are nearly twice as likely to leave their organizations than those who were either …

The Wall Street Journal

These Millennials Are Dumping Their Jobs to Plot New Careers

With several years in the workforce and some savings, some young professionals take an early career break to reassess and …

Galaxy Brain

What If People Don't Want 'A Career?'

In all of my reporting on the future of work, one of the most interesting and potentially profound trends is the growing …

Los Angeles Times

Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

There’s an air of desperation among tech employers this summer. Software talent, it seems, is in such high demand that …

BBC

The rise of never-ending job interviews

Some companies are asking candidates to attend multiple interviews. But too many rounds could be a red flag – and even drive …

Hacker News

30 years old with no career

I’ve been out of high school for almost 12 years. And I’ve never had a job I really loved.

I’ve worked in …

Glenn Gillen

Getting to the Product Manager interview stage

A look at what it’s like on the other side of this review process. The common pitfalls I see. The mistakes people make …

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 …