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haseeb qureshi
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haseeb qureshi is a personal blog at haseebq.com about career, startups and philosophy. Since 2016, 67 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Haseeb Qureshi is Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a crypto venture fund, and co-host of The Chopping Block. Essays on crypto, investing, and decision-making.
Most-linked posts?
- Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2019-03-22
- Farewell, App Academy. Hello, Airbnb – Part 211 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-04-15
- Why Decentralization Isn't as Important as You Think6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-04-22
- Engineer salary negotiation: from $120K to $250K offer6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-04-23
- How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-26
- At This Time We Are Moving Ahead with Another Candidate3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-15
- /how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-interviews/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-09
- How to Break into the Tech Industry–a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-18
- History That Explains the ICO Bubble2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-19
- Cracking My Own Reddit Password2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-06
What Hacker News says?
I found the following article to be helpful in understanding some of these processes https://haseebq.com/ethereum-is-now-unforkable-thanks-to-def...
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on “Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge”Submitted Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016) as a story · 449 points
HN discussionThat is why you apply for 10 companies, get 3+ offers and maybe try a few times. They know that people get rejected for BS reasons and it's totally cool to apply again after +6 months. They even will start contacting you again to apply! With enough prep and determination, you can do it, and the amount of time & money required is far less than getting any 2 year masters degree. You can even apply to not FaceGooSoft,…
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on “Being a Developer After 40”Submitted How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation as a story · 246 points
HN discussionWell organized, but a lot of noise. This is honestly the best guide I saw (got a job at a FAANG company following it): https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-i...
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on “Tech Interview Handbook”Submitted How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016) as a story · 223 points
HN discussionColleges and universities are corrupt dinosaur institutions that indoctrinate students in subjects that working devs basically never use, like calculus, Java, and recursion. COVID can't kill them off fast enough. People like Haseeb Qureshi[1] amply demonstrate that you don't need a fancy degree to break into the top echelons of FAANG. It's 2020, not 1920: just do a bootcamp, self-study using one of the free open-sou…
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on “UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted students as favors to donors”Submitted Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer as a story · 182 points
HN discussionThis article mentions and briefly explains smart contracts in a way that really helped me understand. http://haseebq.com/a-hacker-stole-31m-of-ether/
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on “Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping”Submitted Farewell, App Academy. Hello, Airbnb – Part 2 as a story · 108 points
HN discussionBATNA is king. If you have a great alternative, you're not being difficult, you're just being honest. My second-most-linked negotiation post, after the OP, is https://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/
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on “Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)”Submitted Cracking My Own Reddit Password as a story · 72 points
HN discussionDefinitely agree with you here...as a current faculty member, but someone who has been largely self-taught in recent years, I have to keep reminding myself that I myself needed the structure and artificial deadlines of homework and finals to get into the groove, to get to the point where I could get a job in which I learned more skills at a significantly faster rate (daily professional deadlines tend to do that to y…
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on “Bootcamps vs. College”Submitted Engineer salary negotiation: from $120K to $250K offer as a story · 37 points
HN discussionIf you want to get your feet wet with a short writeup online, I found these two blog posts (part 1 and 2) to be extremely valuable. It does a fantastic job of making sure you're mentally framing the situation correctly, which makes an enormous difference. part 1: https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer... part 2: https://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/
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on ““Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?”Submitted Blockchain: the revolution we're not ready for as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThis guy is a legend!! http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/
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on “Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer”Submitted What explains the rise of AMMs? – Haseeb Qureshi as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFYI, This looks like a republish of his original blog post[1] that was discussed previously[2]. [1] http://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086876
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on “Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer”Submitted Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTo add to point #3, (information is power), I would advise any candidate to do research into approx. salary ranges for the type of positions they've applied to and the geographical area in which they are located. The author does lament the general trend of "pay secrecy" in part 2 [2] of his previous article on how he landed a job at Airbnb[1] but it's worthwhile to point out here. Almost any offer/salary does not ex…
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on “Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer”Submitted Why Decentralization Isn't as Important as You Think as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOne great example is Haseeb, who spent two years of all his life programming. He now commands a $250k salary (which, I say more power to him for exploiting our current interview system). I don't doubt that Haseeb is an excellent programmer. But not everyone has two years to devote to mastering the interview system like him, and there are plenty of skills you won't get just by doing competitive programming. http://ha…
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on “People suck at technical interviews (2014)”Submitted How to Learn Hard Things as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSlightly-related: has anyone interviewing with Airbnb used the author's public starting offer of $220k total compensation to negotiate their own starting offer? Genuinely curious. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii...
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on “How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation”Submitted How to Break into the Tech Industry–a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFYI, he's actually quite technically talented. Let's assume less and RTFA more. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii... Excerpt: ... many people are drawing the conclusion that I primarily got a job at Airbnb by being really good at negotiating, or gaming the system, or something like that. If you have ever done a software engineering interview, you would know that this is completely absurd.…
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on “How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation”Submitted Why Decentralization Isn't as Important as You Think as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHe explains himself here: http://haseebq.com/about/ If you didn't see his previous posts he's clearly a pretty skilled self-teacher - negotiated up to 220K offers at Google and Airbnb despite going to a bootcamp.
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on “How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation”Submitted History That Explains the ICO Bubble as a story · 3 points
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