How to Be a Successful Django Developer at a Large Company

When I joined in 2016, we were on Django 1.3, which was already quite old at that point. Instagram has a very kind of engineered driven culture. There's a pretty wide latitude for an engineer coming in to pick the teams and the projects that are interesting to them. You can say, for this code, you have to pass an integer, not int or any. So there's a lot of opportunity in that it can also be a little bit scary.