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WebJoyAn unpopular view on impostor syndrome (Curtis / @curtiseinsmann)Curtis Einsmann joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he got into Amazon's internship, earned an SDE I position and after years at Amazon has broken out to start working freelance.We discuss what it was like to work at Amazon, how he dealt with imposter syndrome and the lessons he learned from Amazon that helps him now work asynchronously at Gumroad, where he's only had 4 meetings this year!🔗 Discussed LinksThe Medium article that started it all: "Amazon shouldn't have hired me"Master the Code ReviewHow Gumroad works...
2023-01-2423 min
WebJoy: Real Stories from Tech About the Struggles and Delights That Made Us Who We Are TodayS1 E41: An unpopular view on impostor syndrome (Curtis / @curtiseinsmann)Curtis Einsmann joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he got into Amazon's internship, earned an SDE I position and after years at Amazon has broken out to start working freelance.We discuss what it was like to work at Amazon, how he dealt with imposter syndrome and the lessons he learned from Amazon that helps him now work asynchronously at Gumroad, where he's only had 4 meetings this year!🔗 Discussed LinksThe Medium article that started it all: "Amazon shouldn't have hired me"Master the Code ReviewHow Gumroad works...
2023-01-2423 min
The GeekNarratorEffective Code Reviews with Curtis EinsmannIn this episode I invited Curtis Einsmann to join us and share his knowledge and experience on how to do code reviews effectively.Â
Curtis has created a course called "Master the Code Review" which has some great testimonials and amazing feedback.Â
We have discussed various suggestions on making code reviews more effective for teams and individuals. Â
Chapters:
00:00 IntroductionÂ
10:36 How should teams appoach Code Reviews?
 18:19 How should individuals approach Code Reviews?Â
25:10 Does Code Reviews slow down the development process?Â
28:15 Common mistakes done by Authors and Rev...
2022-10-2950 min
The Bike Shed338: Meticulously WrongChris switched from Trello over to Linear for product management and talks about prioritizing backlogs.
Steph shares and discusses a tweet from Curtis Einsmann that super resonated with the work she's doing right now: "In software engineering, rabbit holes are inevitable. You will research libraries and not use them. You'll write code just to delete it. This isn't a waste; sometimes, you need to go down a few wrong paths to get to the right one."
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2022-05-1745 min