A Life Engineered
Deep conversations with people who've had exceptional careers to inspire you to have your own exceptional career.
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I Coached a Security Engineer Through His Failed Meta Interview (Live)
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I Coached an AWS Engineer From Mid-Level to Senior (Live)
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I Coached a Ex-Microsoft Manager for His Netflix Interview
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I Coached a Front-End Engineer to Sound Senior (Live)
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I Coached an AWS Engineer Senior to Staff (Live)
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I Coached an Amazon Engineer From Mid-Level to Senior (Live)
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale📘 AI can write your code. It can't tell your story. Behavioral interviews are the new differentiator, and I wrote the book on them: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-ytIf you want to be in the hot-seat for the next video like this, apply here: https://forms.gle/121P4FhVhxkBaPi
The 2% of Engineers Winning the AI Era (Ex-Meta L8)
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Casey Muratori Doesn’t Care About AI (Here’s Why)
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I Tried Everything to Get Hired. This Is What Worked.
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The Career Strategy That Survives AI
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$1.25 Billion CTO: The Career Mistake That Cost Me 9 Years
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OpenAI and Meta E9: The Career Bet Every Engineer Must Make
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Tech Interview Expert: AI Isn’t Killing Careers, But THIS is
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The Career Decisions That Quietly Limit Your Future | Christopher Brown
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$4 Billion Founder: Should You Leave Big Tech or Ride It Out?
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Why Even Google Engineers Are Relearning Everything | Maddy Zhang
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How Engineers Break Into The Top 1% | Michael Novati
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Why The Best Reinvent Themselves Every 2 Years | Carlos Arguelles
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Why Even The Best Engineers Are Afraid Of What’s Coming | Philip Su
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Why People Are INVISIBLE To Leaders And How To Fix It | Ethan Evans
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What Big Tech Still Gets WRONG about Great Programmers | Casey Muratori
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Vibe Coding Is The Only Future - Steve Yegge
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Why This Amazon Director Walked Away From Everything at 42 | Dave Anderson
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How NeetCode Turned Two Months of Hell at Amazon Into a Million-Dollar Business
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High School Dropout to Google Principal: Sundas Khalid Makes More from Content Than Her Tech Salary
Gergely Orosz on Tech's Entry-Level Crisis and What Comes Next
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