Archive - The Developing Dev

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

May 2 •

47:57

April 2025

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

Apr 13 •

and

Jia (Audrey) Chen

34:27

March 2025

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

Mar 1 •

and

1:18:48

February 2025

The Path to Managing Managers

Today’s post is from James Stanier who is an engineering director at Shopify

Feb 7 •

and

January 2025

Everything I learned after 2 years of writing

Jan 31 •

When Job Hopping Doesn't Make Sense

Early vs late career strategy

Jan 24 •

Staff Engineer @ Meta by Age 25 | Evan King

How he got promoted so quickly, transitioning to startups, learnings & regrets

Jan 17 •

and

1:57:15

Everything I Know About Shipping Code Faster

Faster Review, Flow State, Optimizing Your Workflow

Jan 10 •

What Worked (and Didn’t) in a Decade of Goal Setting

Making Mistakes, Iterating, Current Process

Jan 3 •

December 2024

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