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I work with a competent jerk: https://www.pickardlaws.com/myleadership/myfiles/rtdocs/hbr/... Backstory -- I joined my current team a year ago. It was falling apart. The team members hated each other and were trying to…

Hi, My manager and I are considering paying for training courses for our team + possibly some engineers from other teams from a company whose technology is important to us. Our team isn't as skilled as we should be with…

Hi -- I've posted before about a director of mine, who joined a few months ago. I'm trying to get a sense of how to interpret this situation, and what (if anything) there is to do for me here. The director has a…

Hi, About two months ago my company hired a new director, my skip manager. A lot of things are off about him, IMO: - he hasn't met the engineers on the team except for his three teams' leads, including me. - he worked…

Hi, I’m doing research for a project within my company to develop a framework to help MLEs develop models. It’ll handle things like fault tolerance, checkpointing, integration with internal service APIs, and should be…

Maybe "derailed" is a strong word. But here's my situation: There was a re-org last quarter. My team was working on a specific domain managing a stack. There was another close-by team working in that same domain…

As title says, my director, my initial hiring manager, was fired, presumably for underperformance. He was apparently pretty broadly disliked, since he came through a startup acquisition and ruffled feathers early on and…

LLMs let us generate plausible sentences that may as well have been written by a human. I’m expecting there to be a flood of LLM-generated text on the internet in the coming years. I’ve been wondering about the value of…

Hi, I posted just before, that I received a startup offer that I may accept over my current startup. I'm wondering if there are experienced consultants who would be able to walk me through comparing the startups -- not…

Hi HN, I'm in the middle of choosing between my current company, and another company. I'd like to give a description of both companies, and poll you all for thoughts and opinions. Cash is identical, and my stock options…

Hi, I've been a software engineer for eight years, working on ML platforms for all of it. The two main paths I see ahead of me are management and IC. I'd like to poll for ideas on careers that would leverage the…

Hi, I'm expecting an offer from an early stage start-up. Would I sound unreasonable to see their cap table? Are there other questions that I can ask that can help me determine what % of the company I'd be getting in…

Hi, I've been job-searching for a few weeks now, since I don't think my start-up has legs. A recruiter from a company recently reached out to me, and I was interested in it both because (1) they'd built an open-source…

Hi, I've developed an interest in performance, and I'd like to try to build a high-performance server from scratch in C++ or Java. I'm looking for good resources about how to do this. I'd considered looking at codebases…

I screwed up by leaving a cushy big tech job for a start-up five months after starting. This was eight months ago. Basically, I'm wondering if I have to interview again, or if they'll just take me back. Has anyone gone…

Software engineers all change teams or jobs every so often. Sometimes it's for personal reasons, sometimes it's for compensation, location, etc. What about when there's no clear self-interest or benefit in changing…