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Careers

311 objects in the archive · 306 ranked picks

Quitting, getting fired, managing, hiring — first-person career notes

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  1. 201
    Why I left math
    bentilly.blogspot.com20091 submissionHN thread
    84 pts
    42 cmts
  2. 202
    Comparator - I built a free, open-source app to compare job offers
    comparator-one.vercel.app20251 submissionHN thread
    84 pts
    42 cmts
  3. 203
    Our Open and Autonomous Salary System
    multunus.com20161 submissionHN thread
    84 pts
    42 cmts
  4. 204
    You Can't Kick Me Off Facebook, I Quit
    theatlantic.com20101 submissionHN thread
    83 pts
    56 cmts
  5. 205
    I Quit Spotify
    newyorker.com20241 submissionHN thread
    82 pts
    124 cmts
  6. 206
    My Biggest Takeaway on 37Signals’s New Book on Remote Work
    jasonshen.com20131 submissionHN thread
    81 pts
    62 cmts
  7. 207
    I Quit Facebook
    erickarjaluoto.com20171 submissionHN thread
    80 pts
    97 cmts
  8. 208
    I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike
    nytimes.com20191 submissionHN thread
    79 pts
    31 cmts
  9. 209
    How Hibernate Almost Ruined My Career
    ggajos.com20171 submissionHN thread
    78 pts
    98 cmts
  10. 210
    Dear A.I.G., I Quit
    nytimes.com20091 submissionHN thread
    76 pts
    72 cmts
  11. 211
    Why I left Pivotal
    jeremiahshackelford.com20141 submissionHN thread
    76 pts
    45 cmts
  12. 212
    “I was fired from my internship for proposing a more flexible dress code”
    askamanager.org20162 submissionsHN thread
    75 pts
    154 cmts
  13. 213
    My first six weeks working at Stack Overflow
    jonhmchan.com20141 submissionHN thread
    75 pts
    78 cmts
  14. 214
    I posted my project on Reddit and received 9 job offers
    old.reddit.com20221 submissionHN thread
    75 pts
    17 cmts
  15. 215
    I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT
    time.com20241 submissionHN thread
    74 pts
    160 cmts
  16. 216
    I Got Fired from Amazon as a Software Development Engineer
    primitivehacker.medium.com20211 submissionHN thread
    74 pts
    110 cmts
  17. 217
    Why I left academia
    jpehs.co.uk20211 submissionHN thread
    74 pts
    52 cmts
  18. 218
    Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for Npm Scripts
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    73 pts
    72 cmts
  19. 219
    Explaining to my Dad why I quit my job
    joshaust.in20131 submissionHN thread
    72 pts
    35 cmts
  20. 220
    The biggest professional challenge of my career: communication
    tomtunguz.com20131 submissionHN thread
    71 pts
    19 cmts
  21. 221
    What I wish I knew before I quit my job
    michaeldrogalis.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    67 pts
    47 cmts
  22. 222
    My Bosses at McKinsey Made Us Get on 2 A.m. Zoom Calls
    motherjones.com20211 submissionHN thread
    67 pts
    39 cmts
  23. 223
    Why I left React for Vue
    blog.sourcerer.io20181 submissionHN thread
    65 pts
    77 cmts
  24. 224
    Why I Quit Microsoft To Join A 5-Person Start Up In Toronto (2012)
    jaclynkonzelmann.tumblr.com20131 submissionHN thread
    65 pts
    75 cmts
  25. 225
    How I Quit My Job and Bootstrapped My Startup with Tutorspree
    blog.tutorspree.com20121 submissionHN thread
    65 pts
    8 cmts
  26. 226
    My Struggle with the Last Great Taboo: Admitting My Salary
    wired.com20151 submissionHN thread
    64 pts
    82 cmts
  27. 227
    How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for our new project?
    programmers.stackexchange.com20121 submissionHN thread
    63 pts
    86 cmts
  28. 228
    They’re Talking Behind My Back: Remote Workers Feel Unsupported
    wsj.com20171 submissionHN thread
    62 pts
    86 cmts
  29. 229
    Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
    char.gd20171 submissionHN thread
    62 pts
    79 cmts
  30. 230
    Facebook is People: Why I Quit Mark Zuckerberg’s Online Collective Data Farm
    observer.com20121 submissionHN thread
    62 pts
    53 cmts
  31. 231
    I have resigned all my positions in ISO C++ in protest
    twitter.com20221 submissionHN thread
    61 pts
    102 cmts
  32. 232
    Why I Quit Coffee and How That's Been Working Out
    humansarenotbroken.com20151 submissionHN thread
    60 pts
    70 cmts
  33. 233
    Killing the Messenger: My Final Days Working at a Disaster
    nymag.com20241 submissionHN thread
    60 pts
    32 cmts
  34. 234
    I quit my job to help communities fund energy efficiency upgrades
    sparkfund.co20141 submissionHN thread
    59 pts
    37 cmts
  35. 235
    Why I joined Bump
    ikhare.posterous.com20111 submissionHN thread
    59 pts
    0 cmts
  36. 236
    I got fired for unionizing at Starbucks and I’d do it again
    jacobin.com20221 submissionHN thread
    58 pts
    40 cmts
  37. 237
    I quit my job to work on my programming language
    jank-lang.org20251 submissionHN thread
    58 pts
    32 cmts
  38. 238
    WhatsApp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850M when I quit FB
    boingboing.net20181 submissionHN thread
    57 pts
    40 cmts
  39. 239
    HR leaked my salary. Now my team knows I make 3x they do
    brightjourney.com20141 submissionHN thread
    56 pts
    52 cmts
  40. 240
    I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
    medium.com20211 submissionHN thread
    55 pts
    30 cmts
  41. 241
    Why I Left Academic Philosophy
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    54 pts
    62 cmts
  42. 242
    HN post inspired me to quit my job and found my own startup
    writeaswell.com20211 submissionHN thread
    54 pts
    41 cmts
  43. 243
    Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas (2007)
    web.archive.org20251 submissionHN thread
    53 pts
    25 cmts
  44. 244
    Why I Left the Thiel Fellowship for Quora
    lucyguo.quora.com20151 submissionHN thread
    51 pts
    53 cmts
  45. 245
    We surveyed 331 remote workers and here's what they say
    twitter.com20201 submissionHN thread
    51 pts
    52 cmts
  46. 246
    I couldn't get into YC, so I joined a startup that did
    swizec.com20111 submissionHN thread
    51 pts
    10 cmts
  47. 247
    Khoi Vinh - Why I left my job at The New York Times
    subtraction.com20101 submissionHN thread
    51 pts
    10 cmts
  48. 248
    Why I Quit Intuit and Started Hall.com - An Update
    blog.hall.com20111 submissionHN thread
    50 pts
    44 cmts
  49. 249
    Why I Left Perl
    leancrew.com20121 submissionHN thread
    50 pts
    40 cmts
  50. 250
    Working at Amazon became detrimental to my mental health
    teamblind.com20221 submissionHN thread
    50 pts
    14 cmts