I got a chance to speak with @vasilios_s - he's a systems engineer with 15+ yoe. You may recognize him from his viral video, where he got laid off from Atlassian and supposedly "leaked the entire company architecture"

We talked about:

- Why companies lay off some of their most y he decided to make that video & the attention he's getting from companies because of it
- How Vasilios has gotten so far in his career without even having finished high school
- How to learn effectively and a bunch of other programming topics, like life at Atlassian & is Python effective for large projects

Check out the full episode

Youtube - lnkd.in/giWsvmMr
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Apple - lnkd.in/gqCVNsvz

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