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I hear the saying “5 yrs and your knowledge becomes stale”. 6 yrs into my eng career, that really doesn’t seem to be the case. Maybe this means we’re due for some new thing??? Or not…

Coming from being a senior eng at a BigTechCo, I am exploring being a founding engineer “with a path to leadership” at a seed company based in Expensive Coastal City. How much of a decrease in comp should I expect? Are…

Feeling a little too comfortable where I'm at now. In the last couple years I had some side projects in distributed systems. Those were fun, learned a new language, came to the conclusion that Go is overhyped and…

Curious to hear what people on HN are learning outside of work these days.

I'm sure many of us have a fear of using the same stack for years and years and becoming obsolete. For those of you that have been in tech for 10+ years, how was it like to stay at a company for many years and get a job…

For those that have been in the industry for a while (like 10+ yrs) and have worked at once company for about 5yrs. I imagine getting domain + institutional knowledge was extremely valuable. Couple questions though,…

I'm referring to the situation of having a big abundance of pseudo white collar jobs pop up out of thin air. You don't need to be a super savvy MBA to make it, but you being business savvy seems to only help a…

I have prior experience in C/C++ from HPC and JVM experience at a big tech company building out backend services and want to get into more lower level stuff. Have some mechanical engineering academic experience. What…

Looking for insight into what type of roles one can get in NYC that require deeper understanding of systems and low level stuff than your usual application developer. Kinda “eh” about working for trendy big tech company…

Curious to hear what career paths people have taken after being a software engineer/manager/product manager in the tech industry. Making software for serving ads can start to make one start to feel like a bit…