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Structuring Your Manager 1 on 1
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What To Do If Your Manager Keeps Canceling Your 1 on 1s
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Revamping Oncall For 20 Instagram Engineers - Senior to Staff Project Case Study
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Common Scenarios For Setting Up 1 on 1s
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Taking Amazing Meeting Notes
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The Importance of Reflection With Time Management
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Having The Proper Mentality For Manager 1 on 1s
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Amazon Aurora Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud Native Relational Databases
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Why Infrequent Manager 1 on 1s Severely Hurt Your Career
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One Diff, One Thesis - What Every Code Review Should Be Like
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Expert Secrets of Successful Big Tech Interviews
1:02:08
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Quick Tips To Get Higher Quality Code Reviews Faster
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Fundamentals Of Data Engineering - Chapter 3
1:16:25
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Paper Reading: DeepSeek R1 - Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
1:30:56
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Manager 1 on 1s Are A Litmus Test For Seniority
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Junior Engineers, Avoid This Fake Growth Trap
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Bad Question vs Good Question Example
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Why Time Is The Most Important Resource In The Tech Industry
2:04
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The Most Common Mistake Made When Authoring Code Reviews
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Make Sure To Get This Resource From Your Manager 1 on 1s
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The #1 Principle To Remember When Authoring A Code Review
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Easily Level Up All Your Meetings By Taking Notes
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Paper Reading: Self-Discover - Empowering LLMs with Autonomous Reasoning Structures
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What The Optimal Discussion On Code Review Looks Like
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[Distributed Systems Deep Dive] Design a KB Such as Dynamo DB
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What's The Deal With Tech Leads?
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Handle imposter syndrome from amazingly talented peers
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Amazing Pull Request Example - Showing The Context
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Paper Reading: Refactoring vs Refuctoring
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Paper Reading: AlphaGeometry: Advancing Automated Reasoning in Olympiad-Level Geometry
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Amazon Behavioral Interview: Mock Breakdown for Tell Me About Yourself
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How To Supercharge Your Resume As A Junior Engineer
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Get The Rating You Deserve - Introduction - Course Outline
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Paper Reading: Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures
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How Tech Interviewing Has Changed Across Decades
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Use A 3rd Party Solution Or Build Yourself In Big Tech
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Paper Reading: Attention is All You Need
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Taro Book Club The Pragmatic Programmer - Session 6
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Explaining Your Experience In A Meaningful Way On A Resume
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Lessons From The Top: Managing And Growing 800 People (Ethan Evans)
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Properly Learning From Software Engineers More Senior Than You
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Making Every Single Meeting You Have Effective
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Asking Effective Questions That Get Great Answers Quickly
9:29
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Life As A Professional Software Engineer Vs School (by @jordanhasnolife5163)
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Understanding The Differences Between Engineering Levels
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Live AMA with Casey Dai - Former Head of Engineering & Founder of Expanded Skills
47:55
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There Is No Such Thing As A Stupid Question
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The #1 Thing To Remember With Meetings
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The #1 Thing You Need To Know About Promotion In Tech
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From "Meets Most" to "Greatly Exceeds" in 3 Months at Facebook - Yogi Sharma
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Setting Up Your Engineering Mindset For Long-Term Success
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I'm Not Socialized Correctly To Operate In Big Tech
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How To Accomplish Something Every Single Day
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Why You NEED A Deadline For Creative Work
6:43
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Your Tech Resume Should Look Boring
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How Startups And Content Creators Share An Important Trait
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How Do I Know If I'm Making Progress With Leetcode?
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The #1 Tried And True Tool For DSA Interviews
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Beyond 'Cracking the Coding Interview': 10+ Years Of Tech Interview Evolution
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This Facebook Engineering Director Quit To Sail The World
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The How of the Engineering Career Ladder: Five Essential Foundations for Advancement
56:18
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Behind the scenes of a $320K → $1.05M negotiation in Silicon Valley
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Why Big Tech Companies Do Open Source? From A Facebook Director
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Leaving An Executive Role To Become A Teacher
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Why YOU Suck At Coding Interviews - From a Senior Engineer at Uber
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Completing a Masters Degree While Working Was Tremendous - From a Distinguished Engineer
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How I Get 1,000,000+ LinkedIn Post Views Per Week - Alex Chiou Case Study
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Rahul's Compensation Journey To $800K (and behind-the-scenes)
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Learnings from SWE to Senior SWE at LinkedIn
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Mamba: Revolutionizing Sequence Modeling (Paper Reading)
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Demystifying LLM Benchmarks (Taro Talks)
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MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph
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Paper Reading Enhancing Reasoning Abilities in LLMs through Geometrical Understanding
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Becoming A Staff Engineer In Big Tech (Panel Discussion)
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Deploy ML Models from Lab to Production
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Paper Reading ROSE Robust Caches for Amazon Product Search
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Paper Reading The Future of Large Language Model Pre training is Federated
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Paper Reading Netflix Query Facet Mapping and its Applications in Streaming Services
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Engineering Management Made Easy: The ABCs for First-Time Managers
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Meta Intern Success Series - Internship Program Overview
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From Multiple Rejections to Landing Six Offers and Negotiating A $100K Raise
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Gemini -- A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models (Paper Reading)
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Is Distinguished Engineer Worth It? Dealing With Pressure And Work/Life Balance
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Overcome Career Stagnation (5 Common Scenarios)
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What Order Should You Study Data Structures & Algorithms?
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Successful Disagreements in English for Software Engineers
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Distinguished Engineer (L9) Describes Most Important Skill - Andrew Zhai
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Mid-Level Engineer (L4) Describes Most Important Skill - Dipika Tiwari
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Staff Engineer (L6) Describes Most Important Skill - Sammy Nguyen
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Entry-Level Engineer (L3) at Slack Describes Most Important Skill
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Senior Staff Engineer (L7) Describes Most Important Skill - Rahul Malik
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How Does FAANG Hire? What Big Tech Recruiters Look For
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How To Apply The 80/20 Rule To Leetcode Prep
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Networking & Negotiation For Software Engineers
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Code will change
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Explain Like I’m 5: Demystifying Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
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Engineering Your Career: Set Up for Success in 2025
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Why Don't More Big Tech Engineers Contribute To Open Source?
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Selling for Technical Founders
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Ask Me Anything (AMA) with a Meta and Databricks Eng Director - Ritendra Datta
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How To Get Interviews, Secure Offers, and Make More Money in Big Tech
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The Mistake Engineers Make During The Reverse Interview
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What Engineers Get Wrong About Open Source (From the OSS Lead at Facebook)
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The Secret To Reaching $10M ARR Entirely With Inbound Sales
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Startup Employee To Startup Founder: What I Wish I Knew
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Beyond Next Token Prediction - Enhancing Language Models with Multi-Token Outputs (Paper Reading)
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Why Startups Can Be Better Than FAANG For Career Growth (From a Series B Startup CTO)
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The BIG Difference Between The Mindset of American And European Tech Workers
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Why You Should Be Racist Toward European VCs (An Argument For YC)
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Why There Will Be Fewer Product Managers In Tech
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The Really Important Job Interview Questions Engineers Should Ask (But Don't)
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Get More Interviews: Write A Stellar Resume As A Software Engineer
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Onboarding Strategies For Engineers [Lightning Lesson]
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Why You Suck At Networking (And The Right Way To Do It)
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How To Lead Without Authority
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Engineering Director Explains The BEST Job For Software Generalists
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Ace Your Tech Interview And Get A Job As A Software Engineer
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He Built (And Shut Down) An Internal Gossip Tool At Facebook
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Can A Company Demand High Performance AND Collaboration?
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Why A Meta Eng Director Is Deeply Concerned About Job Loss
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Why In-Person Work Is Undeniably Better Than Remote - From An Engineering Director
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Why Slack SUCKS - From An Engineering Director At Meta And Microsoft
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Ask Me Anything (AMA) with a Senior Eng Director - Sanjay Siddhanti
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What Is A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)? And Why It's So Damaging
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The Sales Engineering Career Path (And How To Become One)
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Principal Engineer Shares How To Evaluate Engineering Productivity
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Here's How To Identify A Superstar Leader
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Why It Doesn’t Make Sense To Have a 5 Year Career Plan
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Paper Reading Group: Attention Is All You Need
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Senior Staff Engineer at Cruise Shares The Most Important Skill - Rama Karve
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Senior Engineer (L5) Describes Most Important Skill - Richard Chen
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Ethan Evans' Career Path: Startup Manager to Amazon VP
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Senior Staff Engineer (L7) Describes Most Important Skill - Kaushik Gopal
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Big Tech Executive Reveals 4 Ways That Managers Grow
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Disney Engineering Director: Ask Me Anything (AMA)
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Amazon VP Shares The Common Trait Among The Best Managers
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Principal Engineer (L8) Describes Most Important Skill - Pong Eksombatchai
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Retired Amazon VP Shares Why Reorgs Happen And Why The True Reason Is ALWAYS Hidden
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How can H1B holders do a startup?
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"How can I root cause bugs faster?" from a Capital One engineer
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Google engineer asks: "Can I create an internal system to measure my progress?"
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"Career advancement or building a startup? Which one is harder?"
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"How can I contribute to system design discussions on my new team?" from a Senior Eng at Google
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"How will side projects enhance my skills as a software engineer on the job?" JPMorgan Engineer
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"How involved should I be as a lead engineer?"
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Should I transfer internally to SDE II at Amazon or look elsewhere?
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Connection & Community in Tech with Taro
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How Neetcode Got Promoted From L3 to L4 (Mid-Level) Engineer At Google - Tips + Insights
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"How Soon Should I Think About Promotion?" - Google Engineer
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