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Picnic Careers
Company blog · blog.picnic.nlprogrammingbusiness
Picnic Careers is the company blog at blog.picnic.nl, writing about programming and business. Since 2017, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Open Sourced Code Review Leaderboard”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Picnic's company engineering blog, covering mobile and back-end development and design. Most comments are Picnic job postings, and the one remark on the blog itself only announces it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-04-21
- Open Sourced Code Review Leaderboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-15
- Building an own real-time analytics platform at scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-25
- Java meets JavaScript: dynamic page rendering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-03
What Hacker News says?
Picnic | Netherlands, Amsterdam | Visa sponsorship, relocation Picnic Tech's answer to groceries. Picnic, modern milkman delivering with a smile! At Picnic, we’ve been revolutionizing the way people buy their groceries since 2015 – and we’ve come a long way since then. We provide our rapidly-growing customer base with an affordable and sustainable service through cutting-edge technology, efficient planning, and a fl…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Picnic gives all developers a Mac Book with M1 Pro “for shorter build time” as a story · 16 points
HN discussionWe just started a blog a few months ago at our company on a variety of topics such as mobile & BE development, as well as design [1]. Hopefully it's of use to the community :) I also enjoy the Hacker Noon articles [2] [1] https://blog.picnic.nl/ [2] https://hackernoon.com/
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on “Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?”Submitted Releasing an open-source dbt metadata linter: dbt-score as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPicnic | Netherlands, Amsterdam | Visa sponsorship, relocation | Hybrid Picnic, the app-only supermarket and one of the fastest growing start-ups in the Netherlands is looking for you. What makes Picnic so unique? Everything we do, we do in-house, from forecasting to maintaining our first automated warehouse, to new electric vehicles that deliver our groceries. Our tech stack: Java 17, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Kines…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Building an own real-time analytics platform at scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPicnic Technologies | Java Developers | Amsterdam/Netherlands | Full-time | ONSITE | https://join.picnic.app Picnic has become one of the fastest growing online groceries in Europe. Software is helping us lead a grocery revolution. Our entire operation is run in-house: the supply-chain, forecasting, warehouse systems, partnership and fleet strategies. From the backend to the front, we’re pioneering development in e-…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted Why Picnic Picked Java as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPicnic Technologies | Software Engineer (Java) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ONSITE | Full-time | https://join.picnic.app/job/software-engineer-986403 Picnic is Europe's fastest growing online grocery scale-up. We create the whole experience all the way from our shopping app to delivering the groceries at the door with our own electric vehicles. Picnic is currently active in The Netherlands and Germany, expanding a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)”Submitted Data Science as a Product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you think last-mile logistics is interesting, come check out Picnic in the Netherlands. We're an online-only supermarket. We do milkman style deliveries, where we have a few fixed times per day that the customer can choose to have their delivery (20 minute window), allowing us to make the routing efficient and fast, enough that we can do free deliveries. This overall seems to be working better than Walmart's appr…
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on “Walmart stumbles with its 'last mile' package delivery plan”Submitted RxJava: 5 Steps to Reactive Enlightenment – Picnic Engineering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis and Materialize seemed like great tools. I met some of the team of Rising Wave at the Kafka conference last year in London and was impressed by their work. It may be great if you need such a tool. In the end, I went with ClickHouse and it's materialized views feature. It might not be quite as powerful as what these other tools are doing, but it works for us, and it's really easy to set up. Before we were using…
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on “RisingWave: An Open‑Source Stream‑Processing and Management Platform”Submitted Java meets JavaScript: dynamic page rendering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPicnic | Netherlands, Amsterdam | Visa sponsorship, relocation Picnic, the app-only supermarket and one of the fastest growing start-ups in the Netherlands is looking for you. What makes Picnic so unique? Everything we do, we do in-house, from forecasting to maintaining our first automated warehouse, to new electric vehicles that deliver our groceries. Our tech stack: Java 17, RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, A…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)”Submitted Building an AI-first company: lessons from scaling a Machine Learning powerhouse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPicnic | Netherlands, Amsterdam | Visa sponsorship, relocation | Hybrid At Picnic, we’re revolutionizing the way people buy groceries with our innovative and sustainable app-only service. If you’re a passionate engineer we’re offering you the opportunity to join the diverse team at our Amsterdam HQ and make a real difference in our scaleup environment. What makes Picnic so unique? Everything we do, we do in-house, f…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)”Submitted Picnic Open-Sources Error Prone Support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPicnic | Netherlands, Amsterdam | Visa sponsorship, relocation Picnic, the app-only supermarket and one of the fastest growing start-ups in the Netherlands is looking for you. What makes Picnic so unique? Everything we do, we do in-house, from forecasting to maintaining our first automated warehouse, to new electric vehicles that deliver our groceries. Our tech stack: Java 17, RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, A…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)”Submitted Tech Radar on Event Streaming Platforms – Picnic Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPicnic | Netherlands, Amsterdam | Visa sponsorship, relocation Picnic, the app-only supermarket and one of the fastest growing start-ups in the Netherlands is looking for you. What makes Picnic so unique? Everything we do, we do in-house, from forecasting to maintaining our first automated warehouse, to new electric vehicles that deliver our groceries. Our tech stack: Java 17, RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, A…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)”Submitted Rebuilding the Team Spirit with Discord as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving logistics problems using genetic algorithms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning and Customer Success: Automated Feedback Classification (P. 2) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Picnicking on the Roadside: How to Share the Undone with a Framework of Ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating a Shopping List with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enhancing Search Retrieval with LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java Meets JavaScript: A Modern Approach to Dynamic Page Rendering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted YAML developers and the declarative data platforms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embracing Java 17: Here’s What We Learned – Picnic Engineering as a story · 1 points
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