The Peterman Pod

Coding interviews, big-tech career tradeoffs, and the rise of Neetcode are at the center of this conversation. The episode covers why he left Amazon after two months, how he got to Google, and how he thinks about solving interview problems beyond pure memorization.

Corporate politics is the focus here, as Ethan Evans answers practical career questions that escalate from getting credit and visibility to bad managers, hidden incentives, HR, layoffs, and power dynamics. It’s a long, tactical conversation for anyone trying to navigate ambitious workplaces without being blindsided.

Philip Su discusses rising to Distinguished Engineer at Facebook and OpenAI, then examines what it takes to sustain peak performance. The conversation focuses on motivation, promotion pressure, fulfillment, and how career goals can shift after major success.

Computer history, code quality, and programming careers drive this wide-ranging conversation with Casey Muratori. It moves from surprising historical discoveries and the personal story behind goto considered harmful to performance, design docs, startups, game engineering, and AI-era coding.

Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar talks through how Claude Code fits into real engineering work and how teams can get more from today’s models. The conversation spans onboarding, autonomy, prompting, code ownership, breakage prevention, and whether learning to code still matters.