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I would clarify this in the HN post. As it is right now, it looks like this is a remote first role when the reality is it is a hybrid role. Just because you might be willing to mak…

Some of the most important work that a good manager does goes unseen by their team. I've been a manager and now I'm an IC so I've seen both sides. There is a lot of shielding and p…

I can definitely relate to this. I worked at a startup where the founder learned this the hard way. We were trying to sell to government agencies. He insisted on a pricing model th…

I hear that narrative a lot and I think it does a major disservice to the people interested in entering the field. Are there blue-collar workers making huge sums of money? Yes. Are…

Do you have more documentation somewhere? If so, I’d suggest making it more easily accessible. I couldn’t find any on the site and the support link just takes me to discord. I’d be…

That was why we used an at home euthanasia service for our dog. He hated going to the vet and had to go multiple times a week toward the end. We didn't want to have him scared and …

This is the reason why I refuse to pay for any work travel expenses with my credit card. I once worked for a company that had a similar travel process. When I was asked to travel, …

That's super helpful to hear. I'm also making the move after 3 years in management. Being able to be done at the end of the day is something I'm really looking forward to but it's …

I'm in the process of transitioning back to an IC role from a management position and that was one of the biggest factors. As a manager, the level of stress I felt just became unbe…

I had something similar happen with a Facebook recruiter. I didn't reply to her first two emails so she started emailing my mom to try to get in touch with me. My mom called me bec…

The concern could be a brain drain. If lots of your early employees cash out and leave, you are potentially losing a lot of historical knowledge and expertise at a time when you ar…

My mother and my sisters all have degrees in English. My mother had a good career as a high school English teacher and one of my sisters is doing the same. My other sister works as…

I was a lead at a startup that was acquired and the acquisition process would have probably sunk us if the acquisition had not gone through. We were in the middle of raising our ne…

That's the approach I've taken and it has worked out really well. As long as they're getting their work done, I'm not concerned with how much time they're taking off.

There are always going to be people who take advantage of anything "free". I once worked at a boring large company that didn't offer any of these perks. They repeatedly had to tell…

One practical benefit for the well-off is having people in close proximity who can staff their local restaurants, shops, schools, etc. It's much easier to hire and retain staff for…

Not necessarily. They're describing the benefit for me. I only really use these services during the work week for lunch. My wife and I both work from home and sometimes we didn't m…

We had this challenge when we moved into our house. Our current vet was over 30 minutes away and we have to take our dog in 3x/week for fluids. Our new neighborhood has five vet cl…

This is a really great point. My brother-in-law went to film school and did exactly what you described. He networked with his professors and peers, worked on lots of projects, used…

Even in the early 2000s this was a thing in some places. I remember working at a store that printed the full CC# on the customer's receipt. As an employee, it would've been ridicul…

This is spot on. I had a coworker who was in the reserves and the commitment was significantly more than what they say in the brochures. He was often gone for weeks at a time. This…

I think you need to clarify what you mean by at rest. You mention browser history but it's not clear to me if you mean that it's encrypted in the browser. If you mean it's encrypte…

I interviewed at Microsoft around 2010 and had a horrible interview with a Principal Engineering Manager in Bing. He was my last interviewer of the day and the interview started at…

I also find that I'm more confident in the manufacturer to actually ship the item properly. On several occasions I've ordered something expensive from Amazon only to have it arrive…

That's funny. I read it that way too.