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24-2. Non-linear career paths, culture at Google vs. Amazon

Jun 28, 202347 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Part 2 of the episode about taking a break from corporate careers to start our own podcast technology company. We’ll soon announce our product, so stay tuned!


[02:10] Arnab’s story: from SDE I to a Principal Engineer at Amazon

[06:35] Getting promoted to your level of incompetence and leaving

[11:44] Google vs. Amazon culture

[23:09] One thing we’d take away from Amazon and Google to our startup

[25:32] Join our alpha program

[25:51] Time for silly questions

[28:21] Working from a Google office

[30:28] Biggest risk Ilya took previously

[35:58] Goals for the next year

[37:32] A pathless career path (answering a question from a subscriber)


Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/024-pt2-non-linear-careers-google-amazon-culture


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