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I posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783313 Piggybacking off of that, if you're an experienced (mid-level & beyond) eng, where are you going to check out new opportunities passively? Are you…

You're an experienced engineer. Do you keep your eyes and ears open to new opportunities even when not actively looking for a job? For the purpose of the question, I'd define experienced as mid-level+ (5 years in) and…

I read a lot of things online - blog posts, twitter threads, newsletters etc. But for a long time now, I've realized it really breaks my flow to be bombarded with this information overload during the course of my…

Software development in most startup teams today has essentially become ticket-driven development. Tickets are created, assigned, and are magically expected to be delivered on in 1 or 2-wk cycles. Then, more new tickets…

If you're a hiring manager, have you felt the burn trying to find and attract people to full-time roles? And if so, what are you seeing? Sourcing has become near impossible with most candidates bombarded by recruiters,…

I hear something over and over, often from higher-ups, but also from sales and marketing functions in an org, and occasionally from other eng teams. They really don't know what has shipped and when. This is especially…

The short answer is probably because it's a people thing. Or that people don't use them as they're intended. Or you don't understand agile (side note - the agile way is the stupidest thing invented since waterfall).…

Nearly all tools product and eng teams use today are web-based. Documentation lives outside of the context where it's implemented, i.e., code. Say a new feature is being developed and the team draws up a flowchart of…

I'm working on something new and unlike in the past when I'd dive in straight into product development, I really want to take the time to validate the problem and hear why it wouldn't work (if that's the case!). I'm…

In the past, I'd dive in straight to product development. I'm determined not to repeat mistakes of the past. My idea is centered around more effective collaboration in companies and teams. I'm realizing that the…

I envision this as a real-life community of founders and doers who are bootstrapping, juggling a full-time job while working on their product/business on the side, or otherwise just lack resources. My story: For the…

Link - https://blizkreeg.typeform.com/to/A79l8I For the past year, I've been bootstrapping my startup full-time. More recently, I've had to take up a full-time job again due to diminishing finances and work on my…

HNers: I need some advice/counsel on a dilemma I keep flip-flopping on. I have a full-time 9-6 job and run a venture/project on the side. The website for my project has been live for a while and has a small number of…

We are looking for bright engineers to join us in re-building CrunchBase from the ground-up. Job description: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=4884784&trk=job_nov

What would you do with it? Consider you had a distributed software system that provided services like reliable and persistent data storage and message ordering and scheduling. The system has two end points - a JMS and…

I'm spending this upcoming entire week in San Francisco and would love to speak to startups that are looking to hire for a Rails Engineer position. To briefly summarize my experience - I've developed two Rails sites…

The quality of posts on the HN front page hasn't been the same off late (past 6+ mos?). Why not have a sub-HN for the three main categories most posts seem to fall under? - HN:news (all the FB, Apple, TC, Inc articles,…