Neetcode: Google vs Amazon, Programming Interviews, Quitting Big Tech
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Sharing learnings from the transparent career stories of technical people, written by an ex-software engineer @ Instagram
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Amazon VP: Questions On Corporate Politics But They Get Increasingly Darker | Ethan Evans
In this episode, I asked Ethan Evans (ex-Amazon VP) question about common situations in corporate politics but they get increasingly dark.
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OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9): The Psychology Behind Tech Career Peaks | Philip Su
Philip Su grew quickly to a Distinguished Engineer at Facebook and OpenAI. We discussed the psychology of peaking in your career.
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Casey Muratori: Surprises In Computer History And Where Bad Code Comes From
In this episode, my goal was to record a conversation that was completely free of any “AI doom” content.
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How Anthropic Builds And How Engineering Will Change Soon | Thariq Shihipar
When I talk with my friends who work at Anthropic it always surprises me how far ahead they are in adopting AI within their processes and workflows.
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Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky
There are so many choices every programming language creator makes while navigating engineering tradeoffs in building one.
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Sergey Levine: Current State of Humanoid Robotics, China & Future Predictions
Sergey Levine is one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence.
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Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
It was interesting talking to Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of TypeScript and C#, about all the technical details behind rewriting the TypeScript compiler in Go.
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Creator of Lean: Handwritten Math Will Change Dramatically | Leonardo de Moura
In 2024, AlphaProof from Google Deepmind broke through in competition math achieving a silver-medal in Interational Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
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Creator of Lua: Scripting, Programming Languages, Predictions | Roberto Ierusalimschy
When I worked at Instagram, most of the codebase was in Python but occasionally I’d see these bindings into C++.
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Turing Award Winner: Early AI, LLM Predictions, Causality | Judea Pearl
When I went to UCLA, I had heard professor Pearl’s name here and there from the other professors.
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Creator of OCaml: Functional Programming, Formal Verification, Programming Languages | Xavier Leroy
Professor Leroy (Creator of OCaml) is incredibly knowledgeable.
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Turing Award Winner: TPUs vs GPUs vs CPUs, Computer Architecture, RISC vs CISC | David Patterson
In college I briefly studied RISC vs CISC for my major but I forgot almost everything now.
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Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman
Interviewed Martin Hellman recently who was one of the inventors of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm.
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MIT Complexity Theorist: Why You Can Do Better Than “Optimal” On Leetcode & SAT | Ryan Williams
Ryan Williams is a professor at MIT and the winner of the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science.
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OpenAI Eng & Dev Tools Founder: How Software Engineering Is Changing | Charlie Marsh
Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, the Python devtool startup that was acquired by OpenAI.
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Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Get a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg
Skills frontier labs need, differences between software engineering and research, concrete steps engineers can take
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Co-Creator of Haskell: Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages | Simon Jones
Simon Peyton Jones is the co-creator of Haskell (pure functional programming language) and I interviewed him about functional programming, why it matters, and his thoughts on other programming languages.
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Turing Award Winner: P vs NP, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Quantum Computation | Avi Wigderson
His field of study & life's work
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