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From the perspective of a job seeker how do you answer questions about a company? I use LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor to read reviews. Are there others?

I'm searching for a Rust engineering role and recognize that a lot of roles involve blockchains. I have ~3 years of Rust experience and over 20 years experience in software engineering.

I'd like to start learning the fundamentals about blockchains and would like some recommendations for learning resources including books.

I've been in tech for over 20 years and I'm also frustrated how difficult it is to use job sites including LinkedIn and Indeed which seem to be the major players now.

For example, if I wanted to find a job that involves using Rust on a daily basis it involves a lot of manual filtering. This is because languages tend to be lumped together in phrasing like "one or more of the following languages are ideal" but then they don't qualify the ones they actual use.

New job sites seem to pop up all the time but are pretty similar and may only be marginally better because they're more specialized.

Am I missing a better way to find the job I really want without having to read through hundreds of job descriptions? Does the industry need a "spec" for posting jobs?

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how I would improve the software development process to ensure success. The specific areas I have in mind are requirements gathering and testing which typically take the longest amount of time to get right. Rethinking these areas and others in the frame of what's possible with AI integration with close human oversight and guidance seems like a fantastic strategy. I'm also aware that changing priorities, org changes, etc. can wreak havoc on a project but seem almost impossible to mitigate.

Share your previous software project failures and reasons why you think they failed. What would you have done differently?

I recently resigned my position as a principal software engineer and decided to take the summer off to regroup before pursuing another opportunity.

I have a long list of topics I'm planning to learn more about in my free time and I'm curious what kinds of things HN readers would focus on.

I'm currently in a job search and part of my process is to try to glean information about the companies I apply to. It's crude but I currently have a spreadsheet with scores from Glassdoor, Indeed, TeamBlind, etc. and I average them. I also use services like Crunchbase to get meta information like funding, size, etc.

How do you determine if you'd like to work for a specific company?

I'm aware of the well-known product review sites like Wirecutter and Consumer Reports but wondering what else is out there. The web seems saturated with review sites but most are just a means to get commissions from Amazon, etc.

What are your go to resources to get quality reviews that you trust?

A lot of platforms like fly.io, Heroku, vercel, etc. have more or less the same simple host pattern. The pattern seems to be:

  {random-string}{domain}

Some reasons are obvious like:

1. Using the same subdomain allows for a single wildcard cert 2. The random string label probably helps to avoid collisions, protect privacy, security, etc.

What other reasons would this common pattern be used?

It seems that more and more Saas companies insist on you booking a meeting with them prior to being able to evaluate or purchase the service.

Why is this necessary? It seems like this would cause a lot of potential customers to bounce.

I've been struggling to find time or prioritize reading. I have an expanding stack of books and online reading list to read and I rarely sit down and give attention to either for more than a few minutes. I inevitably get pulled into something like a Slack message, a phone call or just random stuff.

One solution I've thought about is actually blocking time on my calendar to do nothing but read and setting aside a place in my house (that's away from a computer) to designate for reading.

Do you schedule reading? What other "reading hacks" do you employ?

For a while now, I've been asking myself this question because it seems a lot of intermediate solutions get drowned out by all the k8s-related news.

I was encouraged to see the announcement about mrsk from 37Signals which may be part of a growing minority of folks who reject the complexity of k8s.

I also remember reading an article in which some of the original k8s authors described how they might change things knowing what they know now. If someone has a link, please share it.

So will there be a Kubernetes v2 or will there be some other big thing that still checks a lot of boxes but doesn't necessarily involve the complexity?

Similar to specifications like OpenAPI, etc. it seems like having something similar for CLIs would be cool. Why isn't there one already? How do you approach stubbing a CLI to interface with one or more APIs?

Edit: I forgot to mention the closest thing I've found is: https://clig.dev/ which is the most comprehensive "guide" I've seen to date.

I'm a software engineer and I use a combination of manual searches and a couple of bash scripts for doing things like getting reviews of prospective companies.

I'm curious what others are doing in this space to separate the signal from noise.

As a thought experiment what would the ideal version of the internet look like disregarding any perceived hurdles? Think of what a typical experience is today and take away all of the cruft and things that diminish the experience.

Some initial thoughts: no pay walls, no ads, no pop ups and transparent identities.

In what ways is the current path deviating or coalescing to the ideal vision?