Why do companies lay off their best engineers? w/ Vasilios Syrakis
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The Full Episode:
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0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Why did Vasilios make the video?
6:43 - Why did Atlassian lay off talented developers
10:43 - Life at Atlassian
19:04 - Design choices and regret
23:49 - Learning from Experience
26:38 - Does Python make sense for large projects?
31:36 - Engineering is just tradeoffs
44:46 - Did AI make Atlassian go faster?
45:56 - Will programming skills decay
long term?
51:44 - Vasilios's background and not finishing High School
1:00:06 - Preparing for interviews
1:07:40 - Favorite Books
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