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• How is AI changing interview processes? Not much and a whole lot

  by leeny on 9/18/2025, 6:03 PM with 0 comments

• Different types of ML roles and teams at FAANG, and what they entail

  by leeny on 8/3/2025, 9:40 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview

  by leeny on 5/28/2025, 5:06 PM with 105 comments

• Stop trying to make recruiters think

  by leeny on 4/30/2025, 9:23 PM with 0 comments

• Why resume writing is snake oil

  by leeny on 4/2/2025, 5:02 PM with 5 comments

• Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company

  by leeny on 4/1/2025, 7:20 PM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 4/1/2025, 7:17 PM with comments

• It's OK to postpone your interviews if you're not ready

  by leeny on 3/25/2025, 8:42 PM with 2 comments

• I love meritocracy, but all the recent anti-DEI rhetoric is bad

  by leeny on 10/3/2024, 4:38 PM with 5 comments

• How well do LeetCode ratings predict interview performance? Here's the data

  by leeny on 9/13/2024, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 9/12/2024, 4:14 PM with comments

• How to write good cold emails to hiring managers

  by leeny on 7/31/2024, 4:38 PM with 0 comments

• 'I Need to Identify You': How One Question Saved Ferrari from a Deepfake Scam

  by leeny on 7/30/2024, 1:55 AM with 1 comments

• Getting in the door at top companies: a data-driven guide for engineers. Part 1

  by leeny on 7/24/2024, 4:25 PM with 0 comments

• Wiz turns down $23B Google deal, says it's aiming for IPO

  by leeny on 7/23/2024, 3:52 PM with 2 comments

• Why engineers don't like take-homes – and how companies can fix them

  by leeny on 7/17/2024, 3:48 PM with 0 comments

• Italy reconsiders nuclear energy 35 years after shutting down last reactor

  by leeny on 7/16/2024, 5:22 PM with 3 comments

• Gemini AI platform accused of scanning Google Drive files w/o user permission

  by leeny on 7/15/2024, 10:35 PM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 7/15/2024, 10:34 PM with comments

• Microsoft, Apple Drop OpenAI Board Plans as Scrutiny Grows

  by leeny on 7/10/2024, 10:00 PM with 1 comments

• Why interviewers aren't always great and how to make them better

  by leeny on 6/11/2024, 3:58 PM with 0 comments

• Malicious VSCode extensions with installs discovered

  by leeny on 6/10/2024, 9:35 PM with 6 comments

• Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including Siri

  by leeny on 6/10/2024, 9:34 PM with 0 comments

• DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service

  by leeny on 6/6/2024, 8:58 PM with 13 comments

• Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data

  by leeny on 5/1/2024, 3:42 PM with 1 comments

• Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement

  by leeny on 5/1/2024, 3:55 AM with 23 comments

• UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices

  by leeny on 4/29/2024, 9:27 PM with 1 comments

• FCC issues $200M in fines for AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon for sharing location data

  by leeny on 4/29/2024, 9:26 PM with 1 comments

• Bloomberg's analysis didn't show that ChatGPT is racist

  by leeny on 4/16/2024, 6:08 PM with 58 comments

• by leeny on 4/11/2024, 5:01 PM with comments

• Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday

  by leeny on 4/10/2024, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• EPA announces national regulations for "forever chemicals" in drinking water

  by leeny on 4/10/2024, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• The Air Force Bought a Surveillance-Focused AI Chatbot

  by leeny on 3/27/2024, 11:14 PM with 0 comments

• UK blames China for breach of voter data

  by leeny on 3/25/2024, 8:11 PM with 1 comments

• The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta

  by leeny on 2/27/2024, 4:52 PM with 125 comments

• The shady companies helping governments hack citizens' phones

  by leeny on 2/26/2024, 8:59 PM with 0 comments

• MSFT offered to sell Bing to Apple in 2018 but search quality got in the way

  by leeny on 2/26/2024, 8:58 PM with 3 comments

• Making alarms more musical can save lives

  by leeny on 2/21/2024, 2:33 PM with 0 comments

• Want to work from home? That'll be $46,282

  by leeny on 2/14/2024, 4:53 PM with 1 comments

• Early blood test to predict dementia is closer as biological markers identified

  by leeny on 2/13/2024, 10:01 PM with 2 comments

• World’s biggest casino app exposed customers’ personal data

  by leeny on 2/12/2024, 5:19 PM with 0 comments

• AI frenzy puts Nvidia ahead of Amazon in market value

  by leeny on 2/12/2024, 5:18 PM with 0 comments

• Hong Kong firm loses over $25M after employee's video call with deepfake CFO

  by leeny on 2/5/2024, 10:26 PM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 1/31/2024, 5:06 PM with comments

• Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure

  by leeny on 1/29/2024, 9:39 PM with 230 comments

• CISA issues emergency directive to federal agencies about popular software

  by leeny on 1/23/2024, 6:30 PM with 1 comments

• Why the EU AI act was so hard to agree on

  by leeny on 12/11/2023, 5:41 PM with 0 comments

• The day the empress' clothes fell off

  by leeny on 12/11/2023, 5:39 PM with 0 comments

• A man with Parkinson's regained the ability to walk thanks to a spinal implant

  by leeny on 11/7/2023, 12:03 AM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 11/2/2023, 3:41 PM with comments

• by leeny on 11/2/2023, 3:28 PM with comments

• Which presidential candidates get the most press?

  by leeny on 8/24/2023, 9:29 PM with 1 comments

• What Do Chinese University Students Think About U.S.-China Tech Competition?

  by leeny on 8/23/2023, 5:34 PM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 8/11/2023, 4:47 PM with comments

• I’ve never written code, but I just passed a Google system design interview

  by leeny on 8/10/2023, 4:41 PM with 0 comments

• A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews

  by leeny on 6/26/2023, 4:43 PM with 183 comments

• AI can’t do hiring because it lacks the data

  by leeny on 5/16/2023, 4:14 PM with 89 comments

• Should you post that you’re OpenToWork? A tale of two labor markets

  by leeny on 4/11/2023, 4:29 PM with 66 comments

• A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview (2nd half)

  by leeny on 3/30/2023, 5:32 PM with 4 comments

• Certifications create wrong incentives for engineers and recruiters

  by leeny on 3/14/2023, 4:39 PM with 79 comments

• A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview

  by leeny on 3/2/2023, 6:13 PM with 376 comments

• How behavioral interviews are evaluated at Meta (from a former Meta eng mgr)

  by leeny on 2/14/2023, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• How many engineers have gotten laid off in 2022 and 2023 so far?

  by leeny on 1/27/2023, 4:53 PM with 0 comments

• We built a rating system for technical interviewers. And you can too.

  by leeny on 1/18/2023, 4:51 PM with 0 comments

• You now need to do 15% better in technical interviews than at the start of 2022

  by leeny on 12/1/2022, 4:37 PM with 24 comments

• How much have tech layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments?

  by leeny on 10/13/2022, 3:49 PM with 348 comments

• Why we’re pausing our Pay Later program

  by leeny on 9/29/2022, 4:13 PM with 55 comments

• The definitive list of companies hiring engineers right now

  by leeny on 9/20/2022, 3:20 PM with 0 comments

• What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?

  by leeny on 8/1/2022, 9:32 PM with 617 comments

• Does communication matter in technical interviews? Here's the data

  by leeny on 5/18/2022, 3:05 PM with 43 comments

• We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work

  by leeny on 3/31/2022, 3:56 PM with 226 comments

• Get mock interviews now, pay when you find your next job

  by leeny on 2/9/2022, 2:54 PM with 110 comments

• interviewing.io has raised a Series A

  by leeny on 10/19/2021, 2:32 PM with 0 comments

• Why I still run the technical phone screen as a hiring manager

  by leeny on 10/6/2021, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions

  by leeny on 9/23/2021, 3:19 PM with 50 comments

• The 3 things that diversity hiring initiatives get wrong

  by leeny on 3/18/2021, 4:37 PM with 1 comments

• The technical interview practice gap

  by leeny on 3/9/2021, 5:25 PM with 219 comments

• How do I know if I’m ready to interview at FAANG?

  by leeny on 12/3/2020, 5:49 PM with 17 comments

• Technical phone screen superforecasters

  by leeny on 11/25/2020, 7:31 PM with 66 comments

• My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work

  by leeny on 10/20/2020, 5:22 PM with 292 comments

• Common problems I see in technical interviews

  by leeny on 10/15/2020, 3:49 PM with 79 comments

• Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews

  by leeny on 9/15/2020, 3:15 PM with 380 comments

• The Interviewing.io Technical Interview Practice Fellowship

  by leeny on 7/23/2020, 6:42 PM with 0 comments

• Hiring tools mostly claim to do everything. Here's what they actually do

  by leeny on 7/15/2020, 3:47 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: interviewing.io is out of beta and open to engineers of all levels

  by leeny on 6/4/2020, 4:48 PM with 120 comments

• by leeny on 6/4/2020, 4:38 PM with comments

• What is the engineering hiring bar?

  by leeny on 3/31/2020, 4:58 PM with 278 comments

• No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback

  by leeny on 2/6/2020, 5:31 PM with 622 comments

• Thinking about attending a coding bootcamp? Ask them these questions first

  by leeny on 1/26/2020, 8:16 PM with 0 comments

• We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

  by leeny on 12/3/2019, 5:21 PM with 638 comments

• The interviewer skills ladder for high growth companies

  by leeny on 8/16/2019, 4:55 PM with 30 comments

• by leeny on 7/2/2019, 5:55 PM with comments

• Exercises to craft an employer brand that makes engineers want to work for you

  by leeny on 5/14/2019, 3:35 PM with 55 comments

• The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing

  by leeny on 4/24/2019, 5:02 PM with 70 comments

• The real connection between interview performance and salary. Here's the data.

  by leeny on 2/26/2019, 5:48 PM with 0 comments

• Impostor syndrome strikes men just as hard as women in technical interviews

  by leeny on 11/6/2018, 4:52 PM with 321 comments

• by leeny on 11/6/2018, 5:26 AM with comments

• Impostor syndrome strikes men just as hard as women in technical interviews

  by leeny on 10/30/2018, 4:36 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Replays of technical interviews with engineers from Google, FB and more

  by leeny on 9/13/2018, 5:58 PM with 14 comments

• What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number

  by leeny on 8/16/2018, 5:17 PM with 332 comments

• Diversity quotas suck. Here's why.

  by leeny on 7/26/2018, 7:10 PM with 4 comments

• We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical interviews

  by leeny on 2/13/2018, 6:09 PM with 96 comments

• What do the best interviewers have in common?

  by leeny on 11/30/2017, 8:26 PM with 142 comments

• by leeny on 11/29/2017, 8:17 PM with comments

• If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools

  by leeny on 10/24/2017, 5:30 PM with 479 comments

• The Intuitive Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms

  by leeny on 10/13/2017, 10:34 PM with 62 comments

• How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree

  by leeny on 3/14/2017, 7:34 PM with 179 comments

• Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements

  by leeny on 2/27/2017, 6:29 PM with 152 comments

• Test drive your next job

  by leeny on 2/6/2017, 9:01 PM with 0 comments

• Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews

  by leeny on 12/28/2016, 7:17 PM with 311 comments

• You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview

  by leeny on 11/2/2016, 7:50 PM with 473 comments

• Ask HN: If you attended a bootcamp, did you find work as an engineer afterwards?

  by leeny on 10/26/2016, 8:57 PM with 1 comments

• After a lot more data, technical interview performance is still arbitrary

  by leeny on 10/13/2016, 4:50 PM with 1 comments

• by leeny on 10/6/2016, 12:37 AM with comments

• A founder’s guide to making your first recruiting hire

  by leeny on 4/26/2016, 3:35 PM with 1 comments

• Blind Hiring, While Well Meaning, May Create Unintended Consequences

  by leeny on 4/12/2016, 6:06 PM with 0 comments

• Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary

  by leeny on 2/17/2016, 6:06 PM with 236 comments

• Fall 2015 Intern and New Grad Offers

  by leeny on 1/22/2016, 6:26 PM with 0 comments

• Engineers can’t gauge their own interview performance

  by leeny on 12/17/2015, 4:56 PM with 71 comments

• Engineers can’t gauge their own interview performance

  by leeny on 12/15/2015, 6:12 PM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 10/19/2015, 9:37 PM with comments

• Lawyer who sued EFF blames Ars readers for hacking, defamation

  by leeny on 6/5/2015, 10:46 PM with 1 comments

• How to interview your interviewers

  by leeny on 4/22/2015, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 4/9/2015, 4:32 PM with comments

• by leeny on 2/12/2015, 12:03 AM with comments

• If you’re an engineer who wants to start a recruiting business, read this first.

  by leeny on 1/27/2015, 6:47 PM with 0 comments

• by leeny on 11/10/2014, 6:16 PM with comments

• 8 Skills You Need to Be a Data Scientist

  by leeny on 11/7/2014, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist

  by leeny on 10/31/2014, 5:22 PM with 94 comments

• Ask HN: How good are you at judging resumes?

  by leeny on 8/12/2014, 5:57 PM with 16 comments

• What I learned from reading 8,000 recruiting messages

  by leeny on 7/29/2014, 5:35 PM with 24 comments

• Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

  by leeny on 7/2/2014, 4:57 PM with 215 comments

• Hire from your user base

  by leeny on 5/5/2014, 5:33 PM with 11 comments

• by leeny on 3/22/2014, 12:25 AM with comments

• by leeny on 3/22/2014, 12:25 AM with comments

• by leeny on 11/7/2013, 11:23 PM with comments

• Uber offering DeLorean rides in San Francisco this weekend

  by leeny on 9/7/2013, 1:12 AM with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley hiring is not a meritocracy

  by leeny on 8/21/2013, 6:32 PM with 0 comments

• Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

  by leeny on 6/21/2013, 6:01 PM with 10 comments

• Building an engineering internship program

  by leeny on 5/29/2013, 11:18 AM with 0 comments

• Ember.js on the Twitch Directory

  by leeny on 5/9/2013, 9:06 PM with 0 comments

• How different is a BS in Computer Science from a MS when it comes to recruiting?

  by leeny on 5/7/2013, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Online intro to programming classes for recruiters?

  by leeny on 11/6/2012, 7:41 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Have you ever changed your mind right after accepting an offer?

  by leeny on 7/16/2012, 9:13 PM with 1 comments

• by leeny on 7/13/2012, 10:46 PM with comments

• Human bones grown from stem cells

  by leeny on 6/13/2012, 12:53 AM with 0 comments

• Why are email scams written in broken English? [Quora]

  by leeny on 5/22/2012, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived

  by leeny on 5/15/2012, 11:37 PM with -1 comments

• Offline services as discrete online "units"

  by leeny on 5/15/2012, 6:06 AM with 0 comments

• Hiring experiment: hiring experts in 20 minute chunks

  by leeny on 5/15/2012, 12:51 AM with 24 comments

• by leeny on 4/30/2012, 6:58 PM with comments

• Ask HN: How can I be a recruiter and still have a soul?

  by leeny on 3/29/2012, 4:35 PM with 8 comments

• Ask HN: Is Startuply broken?

  by leeny on 2/2/2012, 1:51 AM with 0 comments

• The Truth About Perl

  by leeny on 11/14/2011, 9:11 PM with 0 comments

• Interesting take on potential disadvantages of eating local

  by leeny on 10/24/2011, 6:30 PM with 0 comments