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Becca Selah
Personal blog · beccaselah.substack.comcareerdesignculture
Becca Selah writes Field Notes, a personal blog at beccaselah.substack.com about career, design and culture. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “My Time at Amazon”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack as an overview of the author's time at Amazon, in a thread about Amazon layoffs. One commenter calls it a good overview.
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.
Notes on design, tech, and what it's like to work in both.
Most-linked posts?
- My Time at Amazon3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-22
What Hacker News says?
There is a good overview: https://beccaselah.substack.com/p/my-time-at-amazon-part-i
Comment linking /p/my-time-at-amazon-part-i
on “Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk”Submitted My Time at Amazon as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted My time at Amazon: On status and sacrifice at Big Tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussion