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Alex Gives Up
Personal blog · alexgivesup.comcareerculture
Alex Gives Up is a personal blog at alexgivesup.com about career and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its advice on software engineering salaries and career progression, as in the post "How to avoid the software salary ceiling". One commenter pushed back on the post's point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-04
What Hacker News says?
The author definitely stressed this a few times in the article. To a new employer, the fact that he "made it through a Google interview" honestly doesn't mean much. Even Google interviews are wildly variable, and more importantly it doesn't in any way indicate that the candidate is a good match for whatever job he/she is interviewing for. Talking about products and designs he had worked on in the past, at a technica…
Comment linking /2013/12/23/i-got-fired-last-week-thats-a-good-thing-heres-why/
on “How to avoid the software salary ceiling”Submitted I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why as a story · 140 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alex Gives Up as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Job Search Like a Savage as a story · 1 points
HN discussion