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Vik's Blog

Personal blog · partyondata.comdatabusinesscareer

Vik's Blog is a personal blog at partyondata.com about data, business and career. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Top Tech Companies Ranked by Engineering Retention”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

Posts that pay homage to Jim Gray's "Let's party on the data" line.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Top Tech Companies Ranked by Engineering Retention
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-17
  2. Lessons for How to Build Sticky AI Apps and Compete with the Big Companies
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Top Tech Companies Ranked by Engineering Retention as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted What I learned working under Turing Award winner Jim Gray as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Amazon, Google and Apple vs. The Big 5 Unicorns on Hiring and Churn as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Lessons for How to Build Sticky AI Apps and Compete with the Big Companies as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Lessons for How to Build Sticky AI Apps and Compete with the Big Companies as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Tech Companies Ranked by Sales Culture and Retention Rates as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Top Tech Companies Ranked by Engineering Retention as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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