The Developing Dev

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

Learnings from growth to the highest levels at Uber

Nov 11 • 

Ryan Peterman

2

1

1:26:52

October 2025

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

Principal+ Eng Expectations, Google Acquisition, Career Regrets

Oct 24 • 

Ryan Peterman

2

1

50:27

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

Chrome vs Firefox, Projects That Grew His Career, Distinguished Eng Examples

Oct 15 • 

Ryan Peterman

3

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

Chrome vs Firefox, Projects That Grew His Career, Distinguished Eng Examples

Oct 10 • 

Ryan Peterman

1

1:35:32

September 2025

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

Microsoft promotions, big company tips, regrets

Sep 5 • 

Ryan Peterman

4

2

1:32:35

August 2025

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

Tactics for growing in tech and leading engineering teams

Aug 29 • 

Ryan Peterman

12

2:06:56

Behind the Scenes of this Podcast So Far

25,000 subscriber special and answering common questions

Aug 22 • 

Ryan Peterman

17

6

1

15:03

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

Comparing and contrasting growth at two different FAANG companies

Aug 15 • 

Ryan Peterman

35

2

2

1:31:26

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

What it's like to work on so many Instagram teams

Aug 8 • 

Ryan Peterman

19

2

48:15

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

What Amazon VP careers are like

Aug 4 • 

Ryan Peterman

32

4

1

53:25

July 2025

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

The uncanny valley of type systems, promotion & management stories, why he stayed at Meta

Jul 25 • 

Ryan Peterman

1

1

46:09

GoogleX Chief Scientist On Imposter Syndrome, Career Growth, Project Taste | Carey Nachenberg

Career growth despite imposter syndrome

Jul 18 • 

Ryan Peterman

1

1

1:11:26