Reading 02: Employment

Readings

The readings for this week focus on the hiring process and other employment issues such as negotiations, contracts, salaries, and mobility.

  1. Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon Top Interviewer Reveals Secrets of Landing Dream Job

  2. Hiring is Broken And Yours Is Too

  3. Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

  4. Why Women Don't Negotiate Their Job Offers

  5. How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked In

  6. You Should Plan On Switching Jobs Every Three Years For The Rest Of Your Life

HackerRank Developer Skills Report

Checkout the 2019 Developer Skills Report from HackerRank, which has survey results regarding developer skills and demographics from prospective employers and employees.

Optional: Hiring

  1. Why is hiring broken? It starts at the whiteboard.

  2. We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else

  3. We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest

Optional: Negotiations

  1. Facebook, Google and Netflix pay a higher median salary than Exxon, Goldman Sachs or Verizon

    Also: Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon and Ask HN: How much do you make at Google?

    There is also: State of Global Tech Salaries

  2. Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

    Also: How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation

  3. Why Recent Graduates Don't Negotiate

Optional: Contracts

  1. What To Look Out For In Software Development NDAs

  2. Interns’ Job Prospects Constrained by Noncompete Agreements (archive)

  3. Noncompete Clauses Increasingly Pop Up in Array of Jobs

Optional: Mobility

  1. In This Economy, Quitters Are Winning (archive)

  2. Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less

  3. Apple, Google will pay 64,000 engineers to avoid trial on "no-poach" deal

Quiz

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