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28 Year Old Staff Engineer @ Google
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Anthropic Eng Leader and Ex-Senior Director at Meta on Advice That Changed Her Career
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Job hopping, manager career growth, LA vs SF, luck's role in career growth
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Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew
Promotions to Principal Eng (IC8), how to find side projects and top technical book recommendation
Dec 15, 2025
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Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)
What held him back, landing 2000 diffs in a year and promotion stories
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New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King
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Last week, I interviewed a friend who got to Staff (IC6) at Google by 28 in an unusual way.
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