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Yes. The signal does come with some noise, but I've found HN incredibly valuable for my professional and career development. I spend quite some time here but I
by samvher 5y ago
Yes. The signal does come with some noise, but I've found HN incredibly valuable for my professional and career development. I spend quite some time here but I think it's worth it.
HN pretty frequently has posts from senior engineers or senior managers sharing things they've learned over long careers, which I feel has given me a shortcut into many of these insights.
Without HN, I would not have been as aware of how hot the developer market is at the moment, or what common salary levels are around the world. I'm starting a new job next week, through a startup that I found because it advertised a role on HN, at significantly higher compensation than my previous job.
Comments on HN have given me a lot of insight into how people approach things like contract negotiation or how they deal with conflict or frustration in the workplace. Often these comments come from a place of experience with patterns recurring over many positions at different organizations. I'm heading into (only) my third job so these experiences are valuable to read about.
Beside that I've also found many resources that were just fun or intellectually stimulating here.
- mastermedo 5y agoI’m in the same boat, starting a new job next week. I did the same thing OP did, limited my phone to hackernews, blind and linkedin. I find hackernews and blind invaluable in terms of career growth and networking.
- hidden-spyder 5y agoWhat is blind? Would you please provide a link?
- miyanko 5y agoI would be interested as well.
- bckygldstn 5y agohttps://www.teamblind.com https://www.teamblind.com You sign up with your work email, and if enough (~30?) of your coworkers have done the same you get a chatroom/forum for people that are anonymous but verified to work at the company.
- CodeGlitch 5y ago> Comments on HN have given me a lot of insight into how people approach things like contract negotiation or how they deal with conflict or frustration in the workplace Also critical thinking. Lots of people on HN are really good at CT, which is something I wish I was better at... So HN folk give me something to aspire to.
- bradlys 5y agoOoph. Don’t go into any kind of “political” thread then. You’ll find critical thinking goes out the window as soon as you touch a sacred cow.
- zozbot234 5y agoPolitical discussions on HN have always been very low quality, but anything about COVID or vaccines is also a $#!+ show lately. Way too many anti-vax commenters.
- muzani 5y agoPolitical discussions anywhere are a shit show. Political topics are highly discouraged here, and often flagged. There seems to be a loophole with tech politics though, often related to FAANG etc or discrimination/diversity.