The Peterman Pod
By Ryan Peterman
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Episodes: 36
Description
Sharing software engineering career stories to help you accelerate your career. Hosted by ex-Staff engineer at Instagram
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Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Instagram Principal Eng (IC8) On Building IG Stories, 1 Promo Per Half, Small Teams
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Honest Big Tech Layoff Story After 25 Year Career
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Ex-Citadel Quant and AI Researcher On Breaking In, Tech vs Finance Careers
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Meta Senior Staff (IC7) Eng's Honest Demotion Story
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Airbnb Staff Eng on How To Not Get Stuck at Senior and Untold Rules of Calibrations
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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New Grad to Principal Engineer (IC8) at Meta (Career Story)
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Anthropic Eng Leader And Ex-Senior Director at Meta On Microsoft vs Facebook, Career Learnings
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Best Software Engineering Career Advice of 2025
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Frontline Manager at Meta to Senior Director at Snapchat in 3 Years (Career Story)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Robinhood SWE Turned $1B+ Founder on Non-Linear Careers, Being Jaded About Promos, Startup Learnings
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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CloudKitchens CTO on Intelligence, Regrets, Steve Jobs and Travis Kalanick Stories
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Uber Distinguished Eng On Unfair Promos, Influence, Engineering Regrets (Career Story)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Shopify Distinguished Eng (L10) on Principal+ Engineering, Career Story, Regrets
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Mozilla Firefox CTO on Browser War Stories and the Path to Distinguished Engineer
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Intern to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer in 11 Promotions (Career Story)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Behind the Scenes of this Podcast So Far (25,000 Sub Special)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Meta Senior Manager (M2) on Manager Career Growth, PIPs, Amazon vs Meta | Stefan Mai
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Instagram Staff (IC6) Promo Despite 10 Team Switches in 9 Years (Career Story)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Amazon VP On Promotions, Getting Fired Twice, Working With Bezos | Ethan Evans
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Tech Lead for Meta's Most-Used Programming Language (Promotion Story)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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GoogleX Chief Scientist On Imposter Syndrome, Career Growth, Project Taste
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Meta Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On Zuck Stories, Rapid Career Growth, Code Machine Archetype
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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26 Year Old Meta Staff Eng (IC6) On Promotions, Redefining Expectations, Secret Equity Bonuses
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Instagram Principal Engineer (IC8) on Promotions, Breaking Prod, Tech Leading | Jake Bolam
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May 31, 2025 |
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OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Engineer (IC9) On Working With Zuck, Carmack & Career Growth | Philip Su
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May 23, 2025 |
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Industry Secrets We Wish We Knew Before Graduating | Staff Eng Talk @ UCLA
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May 02, 2025 |
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21x Hackathon Winner Turned College Dropout | Jia Chen Interview
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Amazon Principal Engineer On Layoffs, Interviewing & Career Growth | Steve Huynh
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Staff Engineer @ Meta by Age 25 | Evan King
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Ex-Meta Staff Eng & YC Startup Cofounder | Rahul Pandey
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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28 Year Old Staff Engineer @ Google
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Staff at Airbnb by Age 26 | Zach Wilson
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Nov 01, 2024 |