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Instagram Principal Engineer (IC8) on Promotions, Breaking Prod, Tech Leading | Jake Bolam
Learnings from growth to IC8, WLB at IC8, and his note taking system in VS Code
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Ryan Peterman
7
1:20:40
OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Engineer (IC9) On Working With Zuck, Carmack & Career Growth | Philip Su
Learnings From Growth to IC9 at Meta and Joining OpenAI Early
 • 
Ryan Peterman
3
47:57
Industry Secrets We Wish We Knew Before Graduating | Staff Eng Talk @ UCLA
Perfect code isn’t enough, impact != lines of code, getting your first job, succeeding in internships
 • 
Ryan Peterman
3
34:27
21x Hackathon Winner Turned College Dropout | Jia Chen Interview
Winning hackathon strategies, succeeding at a non-target school, being a content creator, dropping out to build a startup
 • 
Ryan Peterman
 and 
Jia (Audrey) Chen
1:18:48
Amazon Principal Engineer On Layoffs, Interviewing & Career Growth | Steve Huynh
Why most interview prep advice is garbage, becoming a Principal Eng at Amazon, and Amazon's performance-based culture
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Ryan Peterman
 and 
Steve Huynh
6
The Path to Managing Managers
Today’s post is from James Stanier who is an engineering director at Shopify
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Ryan Peterman
 and 
James Stanier
2
100,000 🎉
Everything I learned after 2 years of writing
 • 
Ryan Peterman
15
When Job Hopping Doesn't Make Sense
Early vs late career strategy
 • 
Ryan Peterman
6
1:57:15
Staff Engineer @ Meta by Age 25 | Evan King
How he got promoted so quickly, transitioning to startups, learnings & regrets
 • 
Ryan Peterman
 and 
Evan King
3
The Developing Dev
The Developing Dev
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