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Sharing the transparent career stories of technical people. Hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram

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  1. Brian Kernighan: Inside Bell Labs, The Best Programmer, Why C Won

    Episode 721 h 28 min Sponsor: WorkOS

  2. The Story Behind Creating DNS | Paul Mockapetris

    Episode 7153 min Sponsor: WorkOS

  3. Scott Aaronson: The Mathocalypse, Will Intelligence Matter Anymore?

    Episode 701 h 1 min Sponsor: WorkOS

  4. Neetcode: Google vs Amazon, Programming Interviews, Quitting Big Tech

    34 min Sponsor: WorkOS

  5. Amazon VP: Questions On Corporate Politics But They Get Increasingly Darker | Ethan Evans

    3 h 7 min

  6. OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9): The Psychology Behind Tech Career Peaks | Philip Su

    44 min

  7. Casey Muratori: Surprises In Computer History And Where Bad Code Comes From

    1 h 57 min

  8. How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar

    1 h 10 min

  9. Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky

    57 min

  10. Sergey Levine: Current State of Humanoid Robotics, China & Future Predictions

    57 min

Show 40 older episodes

  1. Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg

    1 h 5 min

  2. Creator of Lean: Handwritten Math Will Change Dramatically | Leonardo de Moura

    1 h 8 min

  3. Creator of Lua: Scripting, Programming Languages, Predictions | Roberto Ierusalimschy

    1 h 5 min

  4. Turing Award Winner: Early AI, LLM Predictions, Causality | Judea Pearl

    1 h 27 min

  5. Creator of OCaml: Functional Programming, Formal Verification, Programming Languages | Xavier Leroy

    1 h 24 min

  6. Turing Award Winner: TPU vs GPU vs CPU, Computer Architecture, RISC vs CISC | David Patterson

    59 min

  7. Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman

    1 h 1 min

  8. MIT Complexity Theorist: Why You Can Do Better Than “Optimal” On Leetcode & SAT | Ryan Williams

    1 h 12 min

  9. OpenAI Eng & Dev Tools Founder: How Software Engineering Is Changing | Charlie Marsh

    1 h 22 min

  10. Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Land a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg

    1 h 4 min

  11. Co-Creator of Haskell: Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages | Simon Jones

    1 h 27 min

  12. Turing Award Winner: P vs NP, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Quantum Computation | Avi Wigderson

    2 h 15 min

  13. Dropbox’s Former Most Senior Eng: Building Great Systems and Advice for the AI Era | James Cowling

    2 h 1 min

  14. Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup

    1 h 59 min

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

    1 h 3 min

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

    43 min

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

    34 min

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

    56 min

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

    1 h 11 min

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

    58 min

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

    2 h 50 min

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

    1 h 7 min

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

    1 h 42 min

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

    1 h 20 min

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

    1 h 21 min

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

    1 h 10 min

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

    1 h 19 min

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

    40 min

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

    1 h 35 min

  30. Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Year Career

    50 min

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

    58 min

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

    49 min

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

    1 h 1 min

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

    56 min

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

    29 min

  36. Best Software Engineering Career Advice of 2025

    16 min

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

    42 min

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

    1 h 24 min

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

    53 min

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

    42 min

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