Most advice is right for the person giving it(coached.com)
123 points by rohanm93 | 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.
#career-advice on Hacker News
17 stories tagged career-advice, newest first.
Tech Needs Humanists More(passo.uno)
62 points by eigenBasis | 73 comments
Blog post on passo.uno arguing that tech writers should study humanities and languages rather than coding or AI to stay valuable in the AI era.
What to learn to be a graphics programmer(blog.demofox.org)
398 points by atan2 | 221 comments
A blog post on demofox.org (The blog at the bottom of the sea) advising what topics to learn to become a graphics programmer.
Don't become an engineering manager(newsletter.manager.dev)
364 points by flail | 259 comments
A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides arguing that engineers should reconsider accepting promotions to engineering manager roles.
Lessons from 14 years at Google(addyosmani.com)
1555 points by cdrnsf | 643 comments
Addy Osmani's blog post sharing 21 lessons from 14 years as an engineer at Google, focused on people, alignment, and navigating work beyond code.
What Problems to Solve (1966)(genius.cat-v.org)
456 points by jxmorris12 | 54 comments
A 1966 letter from Richard Feynman to former student Koichi Mano advising him that worthwhile problems are ones you can actually solve, hosted on cat-v.org.
Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?
340 points by jupiterglimpse | 178 comments
Ask HN discussion where a user asks how to meaningfully give back to mentors, professors, and strangers who helped them early in life, with community replies.
If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued(betterthanrandom.substack.com)
748 points by weltview | 334 comments
A Better than Random Substack essay arguing that being useful at work is different from being valued, and that the distinction can be subtle.
Root for your friends(josephthacker.com)
383 points by rez0123 | 149 comments
Personal blog post by Joseph Thacker arguing that genuinely supporting and celebrating friends' successes improves career and happiness.
On loyalty to Your Employer(talentstuff.com)
365 points by Peroni | 394 comments
Blog post by Stevie Buckley on Talent Stuff, republished from HackerNoon (2018), discussing whether employees owe loyalty to their employer.
The best programmers I know(endler.dev)
500 points by kiyanwang | 282 comments
Matthias Endler's blog post listing traits he has observed in the most exceptional programmers, such as reading the reference documentation.
Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)(haseebq.com)
365 points by yamrzou | 169 comments
Haseeb Qureshi's blog post laying out ten rules for negotiating a job offer, drawing on his experience landing a job at Airbnb.
Life lessons from the first half-century of my career(cacm.acm.org)
358 points by zdw | 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.
Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?
397 points by throwaway_43793 | 751 comments
An Ask HN thread in which a veteran software engineer asks how SWEs can future-proof their careers as LLMs increasingly write code.
Signs that it's time to leave a company(adrianco.medium.com)
404 points by bezeee | 256 comments
A Medium post by Adrian Cockcroft discussing signs that indicate it is time to leave a company.
Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays(buttondown.email)
325 points by BerislavLopac | 271 comments
A Computer Things newsletter post by Hillel Wayne offering career advice to early-career software developers beyond typical advice essays.
Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job(mensurdurakovic.com)
645 points by thunderbong | 643 comments
A blog post by Mensur Duraković listing ten hard truths about software engineering jobs, aimed at new graduates seeking their first role.