Rahul Pandey quit his $800,000/year FAANG developer job to build a startup [Podcast #137]

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Rahul Pandey. He's a software engineer who left his $800K / year FAANG job to build his own startup.

We talk about:

• The post-layoff developer job landscape

• Developer interviews and how to differentiate yourself

• Why salary negotiation still makes sense

• His belief that 10x engineers exist – and even 100x and 1000x

Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1969 Motown classic.

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Rahul's Android app tutorial on freeCodeCamp (4 hour watch): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-how-to-build-and-publish-an-android-app-from-scratch/

• Rahul's video about post-college job offers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rceUVaiXQgU

• Taro, Rahul's company: https://www.jointaro.com/

• The story of a software engineer who moves back to India to run his father's chemical business after his death: https://anandsanwal.me/2018/06/19/dad-company-sale/

• Conference talk about the correlation between interest rates and developer hiring, by Pragmatic Engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpPPHDxR9aM

• Rahul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/