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Joakim Recht (Uber Distinguished Eng) on tech leads: "Software engineers need to write code. If you're not writing code, you're not a software engineer." Joakim grew from a Senior Engineer to a Distinguished Engineer at Uber and I asked him what it took to get there. We covered: •...

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