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How Engineers Break Into The Top 1% | Michael Novati

Dec 08, 20251 hr 9 minSeason 1Ep. 10
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Guest Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelnovati/
https://formation.dev/


Michael Novati's journey from Meta intern to E7 principal engineer in six years required the company to invent an entirely new career archetype: the "coding machine."

This conversation explores the tension between individual excellence and organizational scale, why the coding machine archetype hits a ceiling, and how AI is simultaneously amplifying and threatening this approach.

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