The Peterman Pod

Airbnb Staff Eng on How To Not Get Stuck at Senior and Untold Rules of Calibrations

New Grad to Principal Engineer (IC8) at Meta (Career Story)

Adrien Friggeri, a former principal engineer at Meta, shares his career journey, highlighting key decisions and insights. He recounts his early work on A/B testing and rumor analysis, emphasizing the surprising virality of false information. Friggeri discusses his contributions to Instagram's A/B testing infrastructure...

Anthropic Eng Leader And Ex-Senior Director at Meta On Microsoft vs Facebook, Career Learnings

Best Software Engineering Career Advice of 2025

Frontline Manager at Meta to Senior Director at Snapchat in 3 Years (Career Story)

Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew

This podcast episode features an interview with Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code and former Meta principal engineer, who shares insights into his career journey, starting from his early projects at Meta, where he worked on integrating Messenger and Facebook, to his work at Anthropic. He discusses the importance...

Instagram Senior Staff Eng (IC7) On 3 Promos Through Redefining Expectations (Career Story)

Robinhood SWE Turned $1B+ Founder on Non-Linear Careers, Being Jaded About Promos, Startup Learnings

CloudKitchens CTO on Intelligence, Regrets, Steve Jobs and Travis Kalanick Stories

Uber Distinguished Eng On Unfair Promos, Influence, Engineering Regrets (Career Story)

Shopify Distinguished Eng (L10) on Principal+ Engineering, Career Story, Regrets

Mozilla Firefox CTO on Browser War Stories and the Path to Distinguished Engineer

Intern to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer in 11 Promotions (Career Story)

Ex-Stripe CTO on What Grew His Career, Hiring Without Leetcode, Coding as a Leader (Career Story)

Behind the Scenes of this Podcast So Far (25,000 Sub Special)

Meta Senior Manager (M2) on Manager Career Growth, PIPs, Amazon vs Meta | Stefan Mai

Instagram Staff (IC6) Promo Despite 10 Team Switches in 9 Years (Career Story)

Amazon VP On Promotions, Getting Fired Twice, Working With Bezos | Ethan Evans

Tech Lead for Meta's Most-Used Programming Language (Promotion Story)

GoogleX Chief Scientist On Imposter Syndrome, Career Growth, Project Taste