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Akshay Phadké knows what it takes to move up in the tech industry. The Seattle-based 31-year-old’s résumé includes positions at startups and behemoths alike, including Ericsson, Microsoft, Vareto, and his current company, Webflow, where he is a senior software engineer.He’s also secured final-round interviews at Meta, Amazon, Dropbox, and Yelp…
Janvi Kalra, an engineer at OpenAI, thinks students should diversify their experiences after college, with at least one internship at a Big Tech firm and another at a startup.That way, she said on an episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, you have a better idea of what career path you…
Early-career engineers should beware of specializing too soon, said Philip Su, a former engineer at Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI, and founder of podcast player Superphonic.”That, I think, is a tricky decision depending on how well the person knows themselves,” Su said on a recent episode of “The Developing Dev” podcast…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sushma Kukkadapu, a 28-year-old software engineer in Bentonville, Arkansas. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I grew up in Hyderabad, India, where I got a bachelor’s degree in computer science. In 2018, I came to the US to pursue…
