All Episodes

Harvard Professor: CS50, What Matters More Than CS, Lecturing Well | David J Malan

PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White

Turing Award Winner: Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems | Barbara Liskov

Turing Award Winner: Postgres, Disagreeing with Google, Future Problems | Mike Stonebraker

AWS Distinguished Eng: Learning From 3000 Incidents And How Engineering Is Changing | Marc Brooker

Ex-Head of Eng at Instagram: Career Regrets and Learnings | James Everingham

Retired Amazon VP: How Corporate Politics Work And How To Win | Ethan Evans

The Co-Creator of Kubernetes On Convincing Google, Building It, and Scaling for LLMs

Meta Hiring Lead On Behind The Scenes of Senior+ Eng Hiring

OpenAI Codex Tech Lead On How His Career Grew And How He Uses Codex | Michael Bolin

Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill

Turing Award Winner On Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport

Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories

Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings

Instagram Principal Eng (IC8) On Building IG Stories, 1 Promo Per Half, Small Teams

Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Year Career

Ex-Citadel Quant and AI Researcher On Breaking In, Tech vs Finance Careers

Meta Senior Staff (IC7) Eng's Honest Demotion Story

Airbnb Staff Eng on How To Not Get Stuck at Senior and Untold Rules of Calibrations

New Grad to Principal Engineer (IC8) at Meta (Career Story)

Anthropic Eng Leader And Ex-Senior Director at Meta On Microsoft vs Facebook, Career Learnings

Best Software Engineering Career Advice of 2025

Frontline Manager at Meta to Senior Director at Snapchat in 3 Years (Career Story)

Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew

Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)

Robinhood SWE Turned $1B+ Founder on Non-Linear Careers, Being Jaded About Promos, Startup Learnings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Instagram Staff (IC6) Promo Despite 10 Team Switches in 9 Years (Career Story)

Amazon VP On Promotions, Getting Fired Twice, Working With Bezos | Ethan Evans

Tech Lead for Meta's Most-Used Programming Language (Promotion Story)

GoogleX Chief Scientist On Imposter Syndrome, Career Growth, Project Taste

Meta Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On Zuck Stories, Rapid Career Growth, Code Machine Archetype

26 Year Old Meta Staff Eng (IC6) On Promotions, Redefining Expectations, Secret Equity Bonuses

Instagram Principal Engineer (IC8) on Promotions, Breaking Prod, Tech Leading | Jake Bolam

OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Engineer (IC9) On Working With Zuck, Carmack & Career Growth | Philip Su

Industry Secrets We Wish We Knew Before Graduating | Staff Eng Talk @ UCLA

21x Hackathon Winner Turned College Dropout | Jia Chen Interview

Amazon Principal Engineer On Layoffs, Interviewing & Career Growth | Steve Huynh

Staff Engineer @ Meta by Age 25 | Evan King

Ex-Meta Staff Eng & YC Startup Cofounder | Rahul Pandey

28 Year Old Staff Engineer @ Google

Staff at Airbnb by Age 26 | Zach Wilson