21x Hackathon Winner Turned College Dropout | Jia Chen Interview
Jia Chen is a 21 year old that won 21x hackathons and co-founded her own startup, all while being a content creator. She’s worked hard to succeed in tech despite attending a non-target school, and has...
14 Apr 202534min
Amazon Principal Engineer On Layoffs, Interviewing & Career Growth | Steve Huynh
Steve Huynh became a software engineer at Amazon with a Liberal Arts degree. He started as a Support Engineer and eventually became a Principal Engineer (top ~1% at Amazon) before starting his own car...
2 Mar 20251h 18min
Staff Engineer @ Meta by Age 25 | Evan King
Evan King went from Junior (IC3) to Staff (IC6) at Meta 3 years out of college. After that he quit FAANG to start a few companies that were each acquired. In this conversation we go over his career gr...
17 Jan 20251h 57min
Ex-Meta Staff Eng & YC Startup Cofounder | Rahul Pandey
Rahul Pandey (@rpandey1234) grew to Staff at Meta through a few interesting legs of his career:• Stanford to Startup - He joined a startup that one of his professors was starting right out of college....
27 Des 20241h 20min
28 Year Old Staff Engineer @ Google
Ricky (@findingricky) went from Junior (IC3) to Staff (IC6) at Google by 28. He doesn’t consider himself the best engineer, instead crediting his blend of technical and soft skills for his ability to ...
22 Nov 202441min
Staff at Airbnb by Age 26 | Zach Wilson
Zach Wilson is an engineer who grew to Staff (IC6) at Airbnb by age 26. He worked at Meta, Netflix, Airbnb and more recently has started his own company. In our conversation, we discuss:• His promotio...
1 Nov 20241h 6min
