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Ryan Peterman

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Ryan Peterman

@ryanlpeterman

Building the podcast & ergonomic keyboard I wish existed • ex-software engineer @instagram, @meta • See what I'm building here ↓

nyc / sf

Joined February 2017

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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Feb 3
I quit the best job I ever had to try and build what I wish existed in the world. Two projects I'm working on now: 1. The Peterman Pod - When I first started at Meta, the career stories of incredible engineers always inspired me. I aim to share transparent career stories that I
Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Feb 3
Article
I quit my job at Meta
I spent a few months working at Amazon before joining Meta over 7 years ago. At Amazon, I worked in a small satellite office on a team that wasn’t using source control and a lot of what I worked on...
Our Keyboard Design Reveal
From read.compose.llc
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Jun 27, 2024
Why most engineers aren't 10x engineers 🧵:
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Feb 17, 2025
Meta is hiring like crazy, start prepping for algo interviews Last time I interviewed, I got 7 offers out of 8 onsites from Google, Meta, Riot, Affirm, Blend, and a few others Top 3 changes I made that increased my interview -> offer rate:
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Oct 29, 2023
Ask an engineer to review a 15 lines of code and they’ll find plenty of issues. Ask them to review 1000 lines and they’ll say it looks good.
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Sep 22, 2024
After trying Cursor, I realize the value of 80% of my technical skills dropped to zero. The leverage for the remaining 20% of skills went up by at least 10x.
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
May 7, 2024
Distinguished engineers (E9) at Meta make $3,251,000+ per year. Among tens of thousands of strong engineers at Meta, <<1% of them are E9. One thing I've seen common among all of them is that they are world-class writers.
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Oct 12, 2024
My favorite technical book, highly recommend. What’s yours?
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Dec 18, 2023
'C' Engineers: "There's a bug. Someone should fix it" 'B' Engineers: "There's a bug. Do you want me to fix it?" 'A' Engineers: "There was a bug. I fixed it so it can't happen again. I've also added detection so we know faster next time if something similar happens.
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Nov 8, 2023
Blameless postmortem reviews are an underrated part of FAANG engineering culture. Here's why:
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Jun 7, 2024
If you want to become a better software engineer, read these famous engineering blog posts from top companies (OpenAI, Airbnb, Stripe, Figma, Netflix, Meta) I spent hours curating top posts so you don't have to:
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Dec 27, 2023
If you want to become a better software engineer, read these famous posts from top companies (OpenAI, Airbnb, Stripe, Figma, Netflix, Meta) I spent hours curating top posts so you don't have to:
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Nov 12, 2024
FAANG companies are hiring again, here are 8 vetted interview resources to help you pass your interviews you can save for later:
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Jul 30, 2024
Senior engineer fixing another system outage:
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Ryan Peterman
@ryanlpeterman
Jan 25, 2024
If you want to learn system design and Kubernetes, read these famous engineering blog posts from top companies (OpenAI, Airbnb, Netflix, Stripe, etc) I spent hours digging for them so you don't have to:
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