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“Former Uber engineer/EM here: I worked on the Rider app.” (comment) |
| recommended by 8 users | 2020 | gregdoesit on: A former Uber engineer's disaster story | original thread | |
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Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself (mtlynch.io) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2018 | 1767 points by mtlynch | original thread | |
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“I'm unlikely to write a book, but here are a few more tidbits that come to mind.” (comment) |
| recommended by 3 users | 2018 | coffeemug on: Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful… | original thread | |
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The Machine Fired Me (idiallo.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2018 | 1471 points by foxfired | original thread | |
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Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer (isolveproblems.substack.com) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2026 | 1 point by axelriet | original thread | |
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“When you leave or a bunch of your friends who used to go to happy hour together leave” (comment) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | noname123 on: My year in startup hell | original thread | |
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“I'm the founder of a company that is ~250 people, remote first, and still fully remote.” (comment) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2018 | mitchellh on: Ask HN: What are the biggest challenges preventing startups… | original thread | |
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“Lets say you were just hired as the President of a furniture company.” (comment) |
| recommended by 2 users | 2018 | ltbarcly3 on: Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its… | original thread | |
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Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like? |
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 670 points by throwaway1m | original thread | |
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Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever (buzzfeednews.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 2953 points by minimaxir | original thread | |
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How I ship projects at big tech companies (seangoedecke.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2024 | 1425 points by gfysfm | original thread | |
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No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees (sahillavingia.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2021 | 1329 points by sahillavingia | original thread | |
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I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity (medium.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2017 | 791 points by 317070 | original thread | |
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Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend (danluu.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2016 | 712 points by pyb | original thread | |
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An alternative argument for why women leave STEM (medium.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2020 | 629 points by nabla9 | original thread | |
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Enough with the dead butterflies (emilydamstra.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2017 | 586 points by mjn | original thread | |
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Ex-Valve employee describes internal politics at 'self-organizing' companies (pcgamer.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2018 | 484 points by mepian | original thread | |
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The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009) (steveblank.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2013 | 458 points by ohjeez | original thread | |
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Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat (blog.pragmaticengineer.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2021 | 261 points by gregdoesit | original thread | |
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What Really Happened at Basecamp (platformer.news) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2021 | 193 points by jashkenas | original thread | |
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The Valve Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf] (valvesoftware.com) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2015 | 54 points by mseo | original thread | |
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“I worked at Amazon from before Steve left to sometime later.” (comment) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2011 | nirvana on: Steve's Google Platform rant | original thread | |
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“I use a book called ‘first break all the rules’” (comment) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | achenatx on: Employee happiness and business success are linked | original thread | |
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“I can certainly see a lot of parallels with Oculus / Facebook.” (comment) |
| recommended by 1 user | 2021 | JohnCarmack on: Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? | original thread | |
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