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Ex-Citadel Quant and AI Researcher On Breaking In, Tech vs Finance Careers
In this episode, I talked to Nimit Sohoni, a Stanford PhD and AI Researcher at Cartesia who previously worked as a quant at Citadel. We discussed the…
9 months ago
Meta Senior Staff (IC7) Eng's Honest Demotion Story
In this episode, I talked to Igor, a senior staff engineer who has worked at Meta, Google, and Cruise. We discussed his experience of wanting a demot…
9 months, 1 week ago
Airbnb Staff Eng on How To Not Get Stuck at Senior and Untold Rules of Calibrations
Laurent Charignon was a Staff engineer at Stripe, Airbnb, and Instagram with some experience in management as well. We discussed the unspoken rules y…
9 months, 1 week ago
New Grad to Principal Engineer (IC8) at Meta (Career Story)
Adrien Friggeri went from a new grad to a principal engineer (IC8) at Meta. He is the original TL who started Bento if you’re familiar with that infr…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Anthropic Eng Leader And Ex-Senior Director at Meta On Microsoft vs Facebook, Career Learnings
Fiona Fung currently supports the Claude Code team at Anthropic and was previously a Senior Director at Meta. She grew quickly through the ranks at M…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Best Software Engineering Career Advice of 2025
Hi all, it's been such a fun project for me this year launching this podcast and trying my best to make the content as helpful as possibleAppreciate …
10 months ago
Frontline Manager at Meta to Senior Director at Snapchat in 3 Years (Career Story)
Rong Yan went from a frontline manager at Meta to a Senior Director at Snapchat in 3 years. I interviewed him to ask what led to that rocketship care…
10 months, 1 week ago
Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew
Boris Cherny is the Creator of Claude Code but few people know his full career story. I interviewed him about everything he learned growing at Meta a…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)
Marius Schulz grew to a Senior Staff Engineer (IC7) at Instagram by redefining expectations three times (once for each promotion). We talked through …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Robinhood SWE Turned $1B+ Founder on Non-Linear Careers, Being Jaded About Promos, Startup Learnings
Jayendra Jog left Robinhood and raised $35m to start his own crypto startup (Sei Labs). Before he left, he got jaded about software engineering caree…
11 months ago