2nd Q&A with

General question-and-answer session. I'm happy to answer questions about my past work, or on career. See my linkedIn for work experience, and Reddit and Quora for other content.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 Clare - Stories of working with difficult developers
03:41 Urthur1 - Do executives know what you're doing?
06:10 Adelphosphos - Thoughts on fostering a healthy engineering culture?
08:58 GK - What should young developer do moving forward? Do they need to manage? Do they need to be in big tech to advance?
11:16 Urthur1 - Things most software teams don't do but should?
15:14 - How do you answer behavior questions when you don't have a story?
18:13 Urthur1 - e.g. too much / too little TDD.
19:34 Carlos - Does a senior dev get demoted when they move to work in a new technology?
22:53 Tarun - Do you do side problems while working in big tech?
25:40 Kendal - What music during work?
26:44 Benji - Do vendors working at Microsoft have a better chance of joining full-time?
30:22 Patreon, etc.
30:52 Have you burned out? How did you recover?
36:16 Erroneous - How do you find WLB and not feel like you're wasting time?
39:00 User123 - Does your career grow faster as a manager than an IC?
40:29 Urthur1 - Most useful books for software engineer?
42:08 John - Advice when joining as a Staff or higher level?
44:38 Drake - Managers who promise promotion for working hard, and don't deliver?
47:10 Carlos - Does machine learning in big tech require an M.S. or PhD?
48:20 User123 - If you interview better than you perform, should you jump companies to get promotions?
50:12 How to find a good manager in a new job?
51:24 OneBetter - How do you start in a new, big code-base (sorry, answered more about work than open-source)
54:35 Do the best IC's work 60+ hours a week, or do they work 40 hour weeks smart?
56:22 DevMan123 - How much to move from a great job with good WLB?
58:20 Daniel - Tips on being a good mentee?
1:00:50 Nguyen Duong - Thoughts on new technologies not adopted?
1:02:44 Is an advanced degree (M.S., PhD) useful if you have 8+ years of experience?
1:03:53 Urthur1 - Write down questions as you have them.
1:04:14 Wei Hou - Best way to do PhD while working in industry?
1:07:08 For a VP, is a masters worth it for the cred?
1:07:39 User123 How do you ramp up at big tech company?
A very big THANK YOU to the people who attended, and asked great questions!

[@yared09]

Bless your heart! Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@jacktellerson3822]

This channel in this guy are awesome.

[@pedestrian9287]

Great Q&A and very practical. For some reason, I thought your channel name was "The Pragmatic Engineer". :)

[@TheDeliberateEngineer]

That was going to be my choice, but it was taken by a popular channel. Getting an unused channel name is hard... :)

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

This video can also be split into making great TH-cam shorts

[@TheDeliberateEngineer]

Hmmm that is a great idea! thank you!

[@zuyichen9055]

Hey! Dev with 3 yoe, thanks for all the insight!

[@TheDeliberateEngineer]

Thanks! Happy it's useful!

[@romanshevchuk456]

Hi John! +1 question to q&a
Does diploma matter in big tech?

[@TheDeliberateEngineer]

It only matters for being able to get that first job. Once you've worked a few years in big tech, people are more interested in that than your diploma.

[@theguywithgoodvibe8047]

Hi there,
I’ve enjoyed your content and supporter. Just wanted to let you know that you’re doing it great! Btw, can we connect on Linkedin?
FYI- You mentioned about Mongolian throat singing, I am originally from Mongolia 🇲🇳.
Thanks,
-Ted

[@TheDeliberateEngineer]

Hi Ted - Mongolia, cool! For Linked-In, I only link to people I've already worked with, but you're always welcome to send mail, e.g. to [e-mail] if you have questions.