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Glenn Gillen
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Glenn Gillen writes About Me, a personal blog at glenngillen.com about career and productivity. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Getting to the Product Manager interview stage”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Glenn Gillen's Product Management, Executive Performance & Early Stage Investment
Most-linked posts?
- Getting to the Product Manager interview stage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-22
- The Australian Startup Scene2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-05
What Hacker News says?
I posted this previously, but it seems apt to repost given this significant change: I've not found the time to write up the entirety of my experience unfortunately, but I did move a bunch of stuff off Heroku over the past couple of years and directly onto AWS. It was a very piecemeal approach which had the double benefit of being low/no impact to end users while also letting me do it at my leisure. My general approa…
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on “Removal of Heroku free product plans”Submitted Getting to the Product Manager interview stage as a story · 80 points
HN discussionhttps://glenngillen.com/ I’ve gone through various platforms over the years. Currently it’s a Gatsby site deployed to S3+Cloudfront. With probably and overly complicated deployment pipeline to publish updates ;)
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Agile Development: The quickstart guide to doing it right as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNeither/both? It's one of those cases when people don't appreciate the the employer's and employee's interests are rarely aligned. I wrote some thoughts on this a while ago as I realised lots of people I encountered who've been in an individual contributor role their whole career haven't been forced to think about the opposite side of the arrangement: https://glenngillen.com/sensible-remote-compensation/ Thankfully…
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on “What it was like working for Gitlab”Submitted Setting up multiple Yubikeys and Git signing on macOS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote up some notes on my observed realities on how mid-size and up tech companies approach compensation: https://glenngillen.com/sensible-remote-compensation/ Employees have a mistaken belief that if profits are high they get to share in the spoils, they won't. Shareholders are who get those rewards. Either via increased valuation, dividends, buybacks, or all of the above. The only exception to that would be empl…
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on “Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023”Submitted The Australian Startup Scene as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safely Migrating a Ruby App from Heroku to AWS Serverless as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Australian Startup Scene as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting to the Product Manager interview stage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First, state the problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Portable, Shareable Application Development Environments as a story · 1 points
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