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Retired Amazon VP: How Corporate Politics Work And How To Win | Ethan Evans
Ethan Evans is a former VP at Amazon has seen pretty much every possible type of corporate politics. Now that he's retired, he could share everything…
7 months ago
The Co-Creator of Kubernetes On Convincing Google, Building It, and Scaling for LLMs
This is a conversation with Brendan Burns, co-creator of Kubernetes and current technical fellow at Microsoft working on Azure. We discussed what it …
7 months, 1 week ago
Meta Hiring Lead On Behind The Scenes of Senior+ Eng Hiring
Austen McDonald is a former hiring committee member at Meta, where he led mobile hiring and conducted hundreds of interviews. In this episode, we tal…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
OpenAI Codex Tech Lead On How His Career Grew And How He Uses Codex | Michael Bolin
This is Michael Bolin, the tech lead for the open source Codex repository and a former distinguished engineer at Meta. We talked about his career pat…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill
Bryan Cantrill was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and has now founded his own company called Oxide Computer Company. We discussed his c…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Turing Award Winner On Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport
I interviewed Leslie Lamport, a Turing Award winner known for his contributions to distributed systems and the inventor of the Paxos algorithm. We wa…
8 months, 1 week ago
Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories
David Ronca joined Netflix in 2007 and grew to an engineering director there. Later he joined Meta as a Director and transitioned to a Principal engi…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings
This is Adam Ernst, a Distinguished Engineer at Meta (IC9) who’s built iOS infrastructure that has impacted the entire company. We talked about how h…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Instagram Principal Eng (IC8) On Building IG Stories, 1 Promo Per Half, Small Teams
Ryan Olson grew from mid-level engineer (IC4) to a principal engineer (IC8) at Instagram through a series of famous projects. The most notable was wh…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Year Career
In this episode, I talked to "Asian Dad Energy" an anonymous big techie who was laid off after 25 years in the industry. We discussed his layoffs exp…
9 months ago