After interviewing thousands of engineers and helping hundreds of companies scale their engineering teams, this talk will help you fix all the mistakes I've seen everyone make over the last 13+ years of my career. This will be one of the most real and unfiltered conversations around hiring and the job search you have ever been a part of.

I gave this talk at All Things Open in Raleigh in 2024, and accepted to speak with this talk at DevWorld 2025 in Amsterdam. This talk is so applicable because it can be for anyone at any point of their career. Ideally this talk is better in a 45+ minute time slot because of the crowd engagement. A lot of this is around Q&A.