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Yuriy Babenko

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Yuriy Babenko's personal blog at yuriybabenko.com covers career and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “My experience joining TopTal”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2014–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite this blog's post on the author's experience joining Toptal, a developer marketplace, when discussing its hourly rates, contract clauses and PR response.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Senior Sales Engineer / Staff Software Engineer. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate.

Most-linked posts?

  1. My experience joining TopTal
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-03-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://yuriybabenko.com/blog/my-experience-joining-toptal I don't think is a good place for a developer, only wasting of time and money.

    Comment linking /blog/my-experience-joining-toptal

    on “Ask HN: Where is it OK on the Net to say “I'm a developer looking for work?””
  2. Submitted My experience joining TopTal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. I agree TopTal needs PR training. Their CEO's response here is a case study of how a CEO shouldn't respond: http://yuriybabenko.com/blog/my-experience-joining-toptal

    Comment linking /blog/my-experience-joining-toptal

    on “Ask HN: What do developers earn on toptal.com?”
  4. Submitted "My experience joining TopTal" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. They set your hourly rate, many other clauses you need to ask about like the $30k referral fine, being spied on, agreeing to refund all your fees ect. http://yuriybabenko.com/blog/my-experience-joining-toptal

    Comment linking /blog/my-experience-joining-toptal

    on “Ask HN: What do developers earn on toptal.com?”

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