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The vast majority of the Software Engineer education online is produced by people who haven't worked at big tech. For example, for most of the popular tech YouTubers who have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers, if you look up their LinkedIn, you'll notice that they likely worked at tiny no-name companies before they started teaching coding online. They got popular because they teach beginner stuff, and beginners are always the majority.

But where do we learn how things are done in the trenches in Big Tech companies like FAANGMULA?

Sure, there are eng blogs, but those are such a small subset of resources and too high level, if you search for anything practical (e.g. trying to make an architectural decision), they almost never show up in search results. They're mostly a hiring tool rather than really trying to help anyone.

Sure there are books like DDIA, but they're very academic and definitely not searchable when you have practical questions.

I feel like whenever I search for tech stuff on Google, the majority of the stuff on the first page are content-milled articles from India.

For context, I've worked at FAANGMULA for many years, and am now building a tech company. I know in general how things are done technically and have a taste of what good solutions look like, but some of the stuff that are further removed from my day-to-day I need to either refresh on or learn about, but high quality resources like this are pretty hard to locate online.