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Aaron Blohowiak: The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer

EP-066 | September 14, 2020 | 51:13 | Last updated: March 27, 2024

Robby speaks with Aaron Blohowiak, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. They discuss mistakes teams make when refactoring too much before finding a product-market-fit and how Netflix deals with technical debt. Aaron also shares some early era Ruby on Rails stories, along with reasons why developers might be intimidated to apply at top-tier organizations like Netflix.

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