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Brandon & Arjay go into tactical details on exactly what it takes to land your first and second promotions as a software engineer in big tech
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Shreyans Bhansali was the first engineer at Venmo, the founder of Socratic, and later joined Google when Socratic was acquired, then was a co-founder of Maven.
In this episode, we talk about what Venmo was actually like in the early days, we get into the story behind Socratic, how the Google acquisition happened, and what changed after moving from a startup into Big Tech. Later, we talk about AI, software engineering, and why Shreyans thinks the current AI moment feels similar to the early 2010s startup wave: obvious in hindsight, but still full of unsolved problems. -
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This is a conversation with Jeff Escalante, who’s currently a Director of Engineering at Clerk, where he spends more than 80% of his time writing code.
Before that, Jeff was an early engineer at HashiCorp, where he joined around 200 employees and stayed through the company growing to thousands of employees and eventually IPOing. During that time, he also became a prominent contributor to Next.js, which led him to join Vercel as the manager of the Next.js team, where he helped shape the roadmap for one of the most important frameworks in web development.
In this episode, we talk about how Jeff broke into software engineering without a traditional CS background, how to get hired without spraying your résumé everywhere, what he’s learned from spending most of his career in dev tools, how Clerk thinks about engineering, and how AI is changing the way software engineering actually works.
Hope you enjoy the first episode, and welcome to the podcast.
