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 that got him promoted, what makes a great software eng...
11 Nov 20251h 26min
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 including the behind the scenes of his startup getting a...
24 Okt 202550min
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 including some interesting stories on living through t...
10 Okt 20251h 35min
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 everything he learned by going through that process...
5 Sep 20251h 32min
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 Google. I recently asked him about everything he knows...
29 Aug 20251h 59min
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 fastHad some spare studio time booked and figured I might as well use i...
22 Aug 202515min
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 Senior Staff (IC7) in big tech. Since he started his ...
15 Aug 20251h 31min
Instagram Staff (IC6) Promo Despite 10 Team Switches in 9 Years (Career Story)
Sash Zats grew to be a Staff Engineer (IC6) at IG despite switching teams 10 times in 9 years. His career journey was a series of jumps to exciting projects and letting career growth happen as a bypro...
8 Aug 202548min
