I got promoted to staff engineer twice(seangoedecke.com)

73 points by brunocvcunha 1 year ago | 57 comments

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays(buttondown.email)

325 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 271 comments

A Computer Things newsletter post by Hillel Wayne offering career advice to early-career software developers beyond typical advice essays.

Turning Claude Code into my best design partner(betweentheprompts.com)

191 points by scastiel 1 year ago | 71 comments

Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt(seanmuirhead.com)

102 points by seany62 9 months ago | 89 comments

Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)(kellblog.com)

502 points by AnhTho_FR 1 year ago | 227 comments

A 2015 Kellblog post by Dave Kellogg explaining what it really means to be a manager, director, or VP, and critiquing job leveling practices.

Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture(praachi.work)

351 points by abhas9 2 years ago | 190 comments

A blog post advising tech job candidates on open-ended questions to ask interviewers to uncover a company's real culture.

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'(blog.daviddodda.com)

829 points by DavidDodda 1 year ago | 427 comments

A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.

Most advice is right for the person giving it(coached.com)

123 points by rohanm93 5 days ago | 147 comments

An essay by Rohan Mahtani in Coached Weekly arguing that most advice reflects what worked for the advice-giver rather than the listener.

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

Life lessons from the first half-century of my career(cacm.acm.org)

358 points by zdw 1 year ago | 137 comments

Communications of the ACM opinion piece by David A. Patterson sharing 16 life lessons and nine magic words from 50 years of his computing career.

How to do the thing you've been avoiding(jasonfeifer.beehiiv.com)

469 points by duck 3 years ago | 201 comments

A One Thing Better newsletter post by Jason Feifer on how to tackle tasks or ideas you've been avoiding, questioning whether there's a good reason to avoid them.

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people(ashley.rolfmore.com)

363 points by walterbell 6 months ago | 224 comments

A blog post by Ashley Rolfmore titled "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"; the captured screenshot instead shows her post on playing Traitors at home.