The Pragmatic Engineer
by Gergely Orosz
How Big Tech and startups really build software, from someone who has been inside.
Gergely Orosz writes about software engineering and engineering management at Big Tech and high-growth startups, with deep dives into how teams actually work, hire and ship.
Sample issue headlines
Illustrative- 01How on-call really works at scale
- 02The state of the tech jobs market
- 03What AI coding tools are changing, and what they are not
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The Pragmatic Engineer
Example AI summaryHow on-call really works at scale
Gergely Orosz surveys engineers at large tech companies about how on-call really works. The answers range from well-paid and calm to quietly burning people out, and pay is rarely the deciding factor.
Why it matters: A rare inside look at a practice that decides whether good engineers stay or leave.
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