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Estevan Castilho
Personal blog · defmacro.substack.comcareerstartups
Estevan Castilho's personal blog at defmacro.substack.com covers career and startups. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How to Get Promoted”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for essays on engineering careers, including promotion, separate technical and management tracks, engineer pay and hiring. One commenter praised the Parallel Tracks post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Not troublesome. Click to read Estevan Castilho on Substack. Launched 8 months ago.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Get Promoted3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-28
- From corporate politics, there is no respite2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-21
- How to Interview Engineers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-12
- Against Xkcd 13572 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-07
- Parallel Tracks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-05
What Hacker News says?
Because for similar reasons to those discussed in a recently posted article, https://defmacro.substack.com/p/parallel-tracks , management tries to suppress engineer wages. If you're incredibly good, you might be able to negotiate 20-40% higher offer than the initial offer, but beyond that they'll just reject you and go with another candidate who might literally be worth millions of dollars less and be a ridiculously…
Comment linking /p/parallel-tracks
on “Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay”Submitted How to Get Promoted as a story · 788 points
HN discussionQuite enjoyed this post and the one in https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted (HN thread on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24618707 ). This post is definitely a breath of fresh air considering all the blog posts (and posts by engineering managers elsewhere) on having separate career tracks for technical and management work and on how they're equal but clearly the perks and rewards are more bia…
Comment linking /p/how-to-get-promoted
on “Parallel Tracks”Submitted How to Interview Engineers as a story · 156 points
HN discussionYou probably have a totally different personality than op. Not sure if you read this popular piece from last week https://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted but seems like op is in a similar mindset, especially regarding the forest metaphor in the article.
Comment linking /p/how-to-get-promoted
on “Ask HN: Modern office life has become unbearable to me”Submitted Parallel Tracks as a story · 109 points
HN discussion> Hire whoever you have to hire, fire whoever you have to fire, and do whatever you have to do to get this fucking thing off the bus. Seems like a good amount of allegory in that article. Even reminded me of a Soviet era poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky [1] Seems Slava would rather to be ruled by oligarchs, bribe-taking political family-clans, proteges of sexual predators, and thought police (hiding behind the innocence of…
Comment linking /p/against-xkcd-1357
on “An open letter to my friends with fuck you money”Submitted Against Xkcd 1357 as a story · 64 points
HN discussionhttps://defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-interview-engineers
Comment linking /p/how-to-interview-engineers
on “Other Things Equal (1992) [pdf]”Submitted Go-to-Market Strategy for Engineers as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter to my friends with fuck you money as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted From corporate politics, there is no respite as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From corporate politics, there is no respite as a story · 1 points
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