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“Good managers don’t fire. They hire and inspire.” - Michael Scott

The Best Interview Question is “Tell me how to get to your favorite restaurant”

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Published on March 17, 2025

High-Performing Teams Focus On These 4 Areas to Remain Successful

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Published on January 11, 2025

Here's How You Can Increase Your Team’s Execution Speed

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Published on December 1, 2024

Why Only 1 in 5 Developers Are Happy at Work

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Published on November 25, 2024

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Tech Careers

Want to learn how to improve or even start your tech career? Look no further.

Meta’s Software Engineer Levels Explained

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Published on September 30, 2024

A Detailed Roadmap to Take You From Junior to Senior Web Developer

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Published on October 16, 2023

Web3 Job Market Trends Report Through the Crypto Bear Market

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Published on June 9, 2023

Navigating the Software Development Jungle: Spotting Toxic Work Environments

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Published on October 31, 2023

Why I Quit My Full Stack Web Developer Job

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Published on April 18, 2023

#MyStartInTech Story: Interview With Nick Hansen, CEO of Luxor.Tech

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Published on June 16, 2021

17 Highest-Paying Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area for Software Engineers

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Published on April 18, 2022

Career Advice

Whether you're 17 or 55, we could all use some career advice every now and then.

Working at MANGA Company: Dos and Don'ts of Success

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Published on October 4, 2023

5 Essential Steps to Thrive as an Employee and Master Your Career

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Published on June 21, 2023

Breadth and Depth: How to Overcome the Generalist Dilemma

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Published on May 9, 2023

Why I Hire Non-IT Graduates in The Cybersecurity Field

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Published on January 6, 2021

Is Quiet Quitting a Sound Strategy?

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Published on June 8, 2023

Why Not Giving a Fuck Is the New Flex

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Published on August 22, 2023

6 Most Important Things Every Junior Developer Should Know

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Published on January 7, 2020

Looking to Get Hired? Here’s What You Need to Do to Land the Right Job

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Published on August 4, 2023

Life Spoilers: Nobody Knows What They're Doing

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Published on March 27, 2023

Motivation from Mathematics: Hire for Slope, not Y-Intercept

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Published on August 21, 2021

Management

Management is NOT responsible for you being an idiot. Hopefully these stories help.

How To Use the "10/50/99" Approach to Give Feedback

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Published on January 27, 2020

Jargon Is Killing Your Leadership: You Should Be Doing This Instead

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Published on February 4, 2025

HackerNoon Decoded 2024: Celebrating Our Management Community!

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Published on January 30, 2025

What Characteristics does a Team Need to Get to the "Super Bowl" Level?

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Published on February 21, 2022

Goodbye Product Management - Hello Data Product Leadership

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Published on August 2, 2023

Behavioral Interview: The Guide to Fitting In

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Published on May 5, 2024

Technical Writing, Leadership and Management

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Published on August 16, 2022

Notes from Radical Candor — Kim Scott

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Published on June 17, 2018

5 Reasons Why You Should NEVER Micromanage Your Team

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Published on August 31, 2023

From Individual Contributor to Manager: Mastering the Shift with 12 Tips

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Published on October 12, 2023

Careers

Work work work work work

The Best Interview Question is “Tell me how to get to your favorite restaurant”

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Published on March 17, 2025

Resolving the Career Identity Crisis That Comes With Pivoting

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Published on November 17, 2021

How I Got a Job in Developer Relations

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Published on May 6, 2021

Our Careers and Our Identity Capital

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Published on April 21, 2022

Apply to the HackerShip Program today!

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Published on October 25, 2021

The Career Ladder Isn’t In The Office

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Published on March 6, 2014

14 Free Certifications by Google and Meta to Start Working Remotely

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Published on January 27, 2022

How Working in a Big Silicon Valley Company Stalled My Career Growth

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Published on September 25, 2021

Fast-Track Your Career Development with Data Science Help

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Published on June 24, 2020

Why a Career in Motion Graphics Is a Good Option for Tech Savvy Students in 2023

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Published on February 9, 2023

Leadership

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”― Harry S. Truman

Ex-CEO Ranks the One Skill That Helped Him Navigate His Life

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Published on December 26, 2024

High-Performing Teams Focus On These 4 Areas to Remain Successful

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Published on January 11, 2025

Why I Left Engineering Management and Moved Back to Individual Contribution

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Published on December 17, 2021

Disagree and Commit: The Importance of disagreement in decision making

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Published on January 17, 2019

A Voight-Kampff Test for Identifying Engineering Managers

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Published on May 28, 2018

Office distractions could be costing your company more than $30k per high-performance employee each…

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Published on April 28, 2017

10 Characters That Will Teach You How to be Charismatic

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Published on March 21, 2016

Leadership: A Blessing Or A Curse?

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Published on December 19, 2022

Psychological Safety, Risk Tolerance and High Functioning Software Teams

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Published on December 29, 2017

From Engineer to Manager: keeping your technical skills

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Published on January 21, 2017

Effective Leadership

The 5 Essential Skills Every Leader Should Have (And How to Build Them)

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Published on March 17, 2025

From Leadership to Lines of Code: A Team Leader's Guide

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Published on March 7, 2024

Effective Communication in Difficult Conversations: 6 Rules to Follow

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Published on September 5, 2024

Outsourcing

6 Examples of Outsourcing Failure

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Published on April 22, 2020

Recruiting

There is immense value in picking the right staff or partners. HackerNoon's diligently curated stories on recruiting help navigate this potential mine field.

The Roadmap to Becoming a DevOps Dude — From Server to Serverless

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Published on July 18, 2017

How to Craft Your LinkedIn Recruitment Strategy

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Published on April 30, 2021

Eight Recruiting Trends for 2022

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Published on March 9, 2022

The Myth of a “Rockstar Developer”

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Published on February 24, 2018

Can Careers Find the Right People?

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Published on August 1, 2018

How to Build a Recruiting Brand

Published on March 1, 2020

Why is There Not Enough Software Engineers?

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Published on February 3, 2020

Why Engineers Won't Do Your Coding Test

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Published on February 28, 2020

Team Management

The One-Pager Advantage: A Template for Software Engineering Projects

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Published on May 22, 2024

The Power of Feedback: Tools and Techniques for Boosting Performance

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Published on October 10, 2024

Ted Lasso’s Leadership Lessons Made Me a Successful Leader

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Published on July 27, 2021

Non-Material Motivation: Why It Matters and How It Works

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Published on October 1, 2024

How Can One-on-One Meetings with Employees Influence Their Retention?

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Published on January 3, 2024

Headcount Planning? Here are 4 Tips for Choosing Job Levels

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Published on July 6, 2022

How to Onboard a New Technical Writer

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Published on September 12, 2024

How to Effectively Deliver Feedback to Your Team Members

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Published on October 2, 2021

Encourage your employees to submit a timesheet for increased productivity

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Published on June 29, 2021

The Bus Factor Score: How Many Team Members Can get Hit By a Bus Before the Team Fails?

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Published on April 15, 2022

Team Productivity

"Team work makes the dream work" - John Maxwell

How to Balance Innovation and Stability in Team Leadership

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Published on December 8, 2023

How To Make Your Codebase More Readable

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Published on May 21, 2021

Human-centric Crisis Management: Nurturing Resilient Teams in Hi-tech Environments

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Published on April 16, 2024

Enhancing Scrum Teams: The Herculean Doughnut Approach

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Published on August 27, 2024

Humor at the Heart

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Published on May 10, 2022

3 Ways Team-Love Impacts the Bottomline and How to Cultivate It

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Published on November 18, 2021

Optimizing Remote Team Meetings : Do's And Don'ts

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Published on July 13, 2023