# Aaron Blohowiak: The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer

EP-066 | September 14, 2020 | 51:13




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.





## Show Notes

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.

## Helpful Links

- [Aaron on Twitter](https://twitter.com/aaronblohowiak)
- [Aaron on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/myth-sufficiently-smart-engineer-aaron-blohowiak/)
- [Book] [Radical Candor](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250235375/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_a66wFb2HQ713B)
- [Book] [Thinking in Systems](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1603580557/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_p76wFbJFTDVJV)

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