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I did some research about gender equality in the workplace. Now when I type "how many companies" The first recommendation is "how many companies had achieved the maximum score of 100 on the gender equality index by…

Besides the annoying recruiter spam, I'm also "worried" about the abysmal productivity of the average recruiter. When I get contacted by headhunters I can't count the number of times where I had to exchange 5, 6, 7…

It seems that HN users are some of the smartest people on the internet(besides maybe researchgate, but it's not really casual discussion...) It also seems that a lot of people here tends to detect patterns before…

I was reading this thread about ageism at IBM: https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-execs-called-older-workers-dinobabies-in-age-discrimination-lawsuit-2022-2 And I can't help but think that it kind of make sense to me?…

I often wait hours before opening some important mails because I'm stressed about the content. And the more important mails I have to open during the day, the more I'm drained of my mental capacity to handle this…

Today I'm what I would a consider a mediocre software developer(and I'm not good at anything else). I may get harassed by recruiters because of the current state of the market, but I really don't think I'm good at…

I'm talking about most FAANGs, banks, finance... Why is it that so many incredibly smart people who could literally do anything they want, work anywhere they want, build anything they want, maybe even the next…

I started coding really early and I used to think I was pretty good(and maybe I was at the time), but then I burnt out and started really stagnating/regressing. It's kind of fcking up my self esteem to see classmates…

I don't think this is random luck Whenever I search heads or tails I get tails if I haven't searched heads or tails in the last hour or so. 1 or 2 month ago it was heads all the time Does anyone know what could be…

I'm a beginner in AI/ML and I've been wondering for a while if it's possible to create software that would test your English level automatically. For example a callbot that would have a conversation with you, and…

I had an interview with this company. Their website is basically a mostly subscription-based ecommerce CMS, for physical products. They have a lot of clients, but there doesn't seem no need anything remotely complicated…

In your opinion, how can we explain the success of these games? What really set them apart from the rest? And how would you try to find similar ideas?

I just don't get how it's possible to fail that much without doing on it purpose. For example I search for the term Vue.js, sorted by relevance. The first non-sponsored job offer is a PHP job, that don't mention the…

Their hiring process and philosophy seem like a dream come true. ( https://automattic.com/how-we-work/ ) But unfortunately none of their offers are a good fit for me(it's either technologies that I hate, or not enough…

I just had an idea, I don't know if a product like this already exists, if you know something similar or have feedback feel free to tell me please :). It's apparently possible to detect which employees are the most…

Hi! I don't know if this is weird, stupid or hard to answer, but I'd love your opinions. If I'm trying to be objective, right now I'm just a mediocre(maybe average depending on who you compare me to) web developer with…

I'm still really young, but I'm starting to wonder if I'm developing the mindset of an old man who just don't get new tech. I'm talking NFTs, Cryptos, Web3, Metaverse, Nocode, most social medias, actually most new hyped…

It seems that +80% of linkedin recruiters want a phone call before giving you the most basic details: sector, salary range, remote... Isn't it an extremely inefficient way of hiring people? Are they attracting anyone…

It seems that a lot of people(me included) don't like leetcode interviews. Do you know any job board or newsletters for job offers without any leetcode interviews? I'm thinking of making either a job board or a…

Depends(please give more details in comments)

No

I live in western Europe. I've worked for 4 different companies, for European salaries, without doing any leetcode type interviews(I ditched any company that was doing it), it was either take home tests about real…

Yes

I've worked for 4 different companies, for European salaries, without doing any leetcode type interviews(I ditched any company that was doing it), it was either take home tests about real problems, technical questions,…

+If I have to spend a few hundreds hours of hard work on something I'd much rather work on an useful and potentially profitable side-project, rather than on pointless problems already solved thousand/millions of times.