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Ex-Meta Staff Eng & YC Startup Cofounder | Rahul Pandey

The Developing Dev: Compiled 2024

New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King

Why Leetcode Is So Popular

One Thing I Wish I Changed

28 Year Old Staff Engineer @ Google

"How I Ship Projects at Big Tech Companies"

Revealing My Passion Project

Staff at Airbnb by Age 26 | Zach Wilson

What You Work On >> How Hard You Work

Engineering Confidence

Write Down the Plan

The Case Against Documenting Code

Staffing Your Projects

A New Era of Writing Code

Unlearning Leetcode

Backchannel Alignment

Should You Become an Engineering Manager?

Big Tech vs Startups (for New Grads)

Tech Lead Manager (TLM) Roles

Judgment

How To Get Promoted (Without Getting Lucky)

Junior (IC3) to Staff (IC6) via Job Hopping

Earning Trust

IC Promo "Champions"

Product Thinking

Work-Life Balance

From Liberal Arts Major To Amazon Principal Engineer: Steve Huynh

Promoting Your Work

Why I Switched Teams

Writing Tactics - Part 2

Writing Tactics - Part 1

Staying Sharp

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Scope, Not Titles

An Optimized WFH Setup

Time In Role Gatekeeping

The Best Manager I've Had

Shipping Code Faster

The Tech Lead's Playbook

A Simple Pattern for Finding Next-level Scope

How AI Will Affect Your Career

Mentorship’s Role in My Staff Promotion

Staff Engineer Panel Summary

Scaling Yourself

How To Influence Without Authority

Why Write Small Diffs

How To Onboard

Ratings != Promotions

How To Drive Meetings

Why Most Engineers Aren't 10x Engineers

How To Write

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