engineer

“When people are interviewing an engineer, they tend to ask about the things that they Are the best at. There's this overlap between the things that you're the best at and the things that you think are the most important. Every engineer thinks the things that t…”

“One thing, one number we have that's interesting is that the engineers who do the best At companies go on to pass, ah, about 80% of their interviews, but not a hundred. No, almost no one passes more than 80% of their interviews at companies.”

“And when companies say, oh, you know, there's not even like the pipeline of black, Latino, Hispanic, and Native American engineers. One, that's not true. And the data does not suggest that at all.”

“A lot of people have a lot of geometric insight But maybe not the mathematical sophistication. And I think this will certainly sort of give them a big advantage because it seems to me to be the way the world works. This, if it's a unifying language, it's what …”

“Because I know with engineering, some things you just have to have seen the problems before. You can't really anticipate some things, you know, so just having someone having a 10 X engineer, just sit with a team of five engineers. I think it helps everybody.”

“If you're a heavy technology company, lots of engineering, there's a risk that the engineers get in charge. Yeah? If they get in charge, you do not necessarily build products, you build technology.”

“You can be in tech and not be an engineer, or not have a tech background.”

“Silicon Valley has actually this deeply ingrained stereotyping around technical, People. And, like, for the most part, I think that's a seat of privilege. Like, if you are an engineer, if you've got, like, coding chops, if you're a hacker, like, there's all th…”

“What often happens, again, to go deep on this, is that the way they'll pitch the person is they'll pitch them their idea. They'll be like, I'm an idea guy. I've got a great idea. Do you want to be my, like, worker bee to go do all my ideas? And of course the p…”

“If you're not an engineer, I don't think you can do this, and I think you should really focus your time on trying to find a great technical co-founder to start the company with.”

“Developers hate speaking to these level one support people who don't know anything about the product they are supporting. Engineers should do support, and that's going to lead to two great things. One, your users are developers, and when they interact with dev…”

“So literally yesterday, one of my teams came to me, and for the first time, when we're planning a head comfort project, this team proposed to me not to have one PM to four engineers, but to have one PM to 0.5 engineers. So the team actually proposed to me. I s…”

“I think today engineers tend to be a little more parochial than they can afford to be in the future, because, you know, what I shot, what I showed with the kind of The model for what the future company could look like. Everyone becoming more of a generalist.”

“So many early stage builders and late stage builders ended up spending like equivalent or more money on lawyers than they were on engineers.”

“The thing we, like, most need is engineers. Almost always, like, throughout, like, the entire history of this field. It's, like, the case that you throw more compute, the thing kind of works. The challenge is, like, actually doing that.”

“When I look at engineers that have been, you know, coding for a long time, you know, like for years or for decades, this is a really, really common failure mode is trying to over specify and it's trying to be overly specific and then, you know, get the model t…”