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Dungeons & Developers
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The developer job market is insane
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Certifications create wrong incentives for engineers and recruiters
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Databricks counts being laid off as “red flag”
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Startup engineering hiring anti-patterns (2021)
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Wasting time in tech interviews
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The bulls**t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give
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Lessons learned from the recent job hunt
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The tech interview prep industry
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Lessons from a tech job search
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Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens
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What's Wrong with Tech Hiring
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Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best
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Tech Interview Handbook
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The FPGA Designer Who Didn't Get the Job
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Interview like an asset, not a beggar
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My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
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How to Interview Engineers
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Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
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An interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process
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My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs
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The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
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Making software engineering interviews predictive of job performance
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No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
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Hopefully fair performance reviews for software developers
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The Real Reasons I Don’t Hire You
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Show HN: RemoteMore – We connect developers with full-time remote jobs
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Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers
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Hiring Is Broken?
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Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
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Why Developers Hate Coding Skills Tests and What Hiring Managers Can Do
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Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
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The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing
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Spent 50 hours on a take-home assignment only to be ghosted
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Great developers are raised, not hired
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How not to hire a software engineer
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They Rejected Us
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Lessons from Interviewing 400 Engineers Over Three Startups
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Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role
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How to Interview Entry Level Software Engineers
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Why software engineers don’t get jobs: Three horror stories
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Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding interview
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Why I Don't Prepare for Job Interviews
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All You Zombies
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Tech Interview Torture Chamber
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Some Reflections on Being Turned Down for a Lot of Data Science Jobs
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Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
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I spent three months working full time to get a job
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No, Palantir. Your internships are not worth 5 months, 8 interviews,...
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Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
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People suck at technical interviews (2014)
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For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies
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Startup Interviewing is Fucked
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Hire Literally Anyone
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Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories
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Silicon Valley hiring is not a meritocracy (2013)
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Best way to handle interviewer asking me out on a date after tech screen?
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The Hiring Post
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What I learned from reading 8,000 recruiting messages
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This is why you never end up hiring good developers
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People suck at technical interviews
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What I learned from reading 8,000 recruiting messages
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How do you tell managers that having good developers is a privilege?
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I will not do a tech interview
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The anatomy of the perfect technical interview from a former Amazon VP
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The Technical Interview Is Dead
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Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job
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How To Hire Me (or any other programmer)
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How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams
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The "well-calibrated interviewer" curse
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Why won't anyone talk to me? What recruiters look for in a resume
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Walking out of an interview
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One hiring filter that works
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It's not a talent shortage, it's a hiring problem
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Recruiting programmers to your startup
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Enslaving your interns for evil and profit
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My secret Hobby: Applying for jobs
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All that is wrong with the Recruitment Industry
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Coders Who Don't Job Interview: Zed Shaw
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How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole
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Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants
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I made a website to share rejection letters
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Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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Notes from an Interviewer
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Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing
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Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
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I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
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Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
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A network engineer in search of greener pastures
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