Podcast Episodes

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 …

11 months 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, 1 week ago

CloudKitchens CTO on Intelligence, Regrets, Steve Jobs and Travis Kalanick Stories

Brian Attwell grew to Senior Staff at Uber by age 25. After that he left Uber to join CloudKitchens (Travis Kalanick’s current startup) and quickly b…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Uber Distinguished Eng On Unfair Promos, Influence, Engineering Regrets (Career Story)

Joakim Recht grew to a Distinguished Engineer at Uber and I asked him what it took to get there. We covered his full career including the project tha…

1 year ago

Shopify Distinguished Eng (L10) on Principal+ Engineering, Career Story, Regrets

Ilya Grigorik grew to a Distinguished Engineer (VP-level role) at Shopify and I asked him what it took to get there. We covered his full career inclu…

1 year ago

Mozilla Firefox CTO on Browser War Stories and the Path to Distinguished Engineer

Bobby Holley went from an intern to the CTO of Mozilla Firefox. I asked him about everything he learned in that process. We cover his full career inc…

1 year, 1 month ago

Intern to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer in 11 Promotions (Career Story)

David Fowler went from an intern to a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. That’s 11 different promotions all at the same company. I asked him about …

1 year, 2 months ago

Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)

David Singleton was the CTO at Stripe for 7 years before he left to start /dev/agents. Prior to Stripe, he grew from a junior engineer to a VP at Goo…

1 year, 2 months ago

Behind the Scenes of this Podcast So Far (25,000 Sub Special)

We hit 25,000 subscribers! 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported my work, never thought we'd be here let alone this fast

Had some spare stud…

1 year, 2 months ago

Meta Senior Manager (M2) on Manager Career Growth, PIPs, Amazon vs Meta | Stefan Mai

Stefan Mai was a Senior Manager (M2) with experience across Meta and Amazon. We went over his career story in growing to M2 which is equivalent to Se…

1 year, 2 months ago