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RTR Dress Code

Company blog · dresscode.renttherunway.com/blogprogrammingcareer

RTR Dress Code is the company blog at dresscode.renttherunway.com, writing about programming and career. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Sharing Our Engineering Ladder”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Rent the Runway's engineering blog, linked for its tech stack overview in a hiring post. The other comment, on career ladders and seniority levels, does not cite the blog.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

This is the tech blog for Rent the Runway's engineers, designers, analytics analysts, and product managers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Sharing Our Engineering Ladder
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Rent the Runway | New York City, NY | Onsite - Full Time | visas welcome; relocation available Here's our careers page: https://boards.greenhouse.io/renttherunway Here's a general look at our tech stack: http://dresscode.renttherunway.com/blog/tech-stack Hiring: - Front end & full stack engineers (Javascript/React/Redux) - Back end engineers (Java and then some) - Data engineers (Python and then some more) - Mobile…

    Comment linking /blog/tech-stack

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”
  2. Submitted Don’t React Now: you’re not authorized; taking stock of Okta Auth as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  3. There are a bunch of great references for career ladders, broadly speaking, that discuss the rollout process and what each level means for that company. The best not only say something about the levels, but about how the levels are interpreted in line with that company's culture, whatever it means. It's very hard to get to levels beyond senior as a pure generalist: you're typically going to have to have worked on pr…

    Comment linking /blog/ladder

    on “Levels of Seniority”
  4. Submitted Sharing Our Engineering Ladder as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Sharing Our Engineering Ladder as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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