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#88 Brian Douglas: Open Source and Sending the Elevator Back Down

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How to Succeed as an Engineer

Serendipitously, he got his first job at a company that didn't even think he was qualified to interview. After 10 months of hard work and learning how to code, your mom passes away. You get an email from one of the co-founders of Block saying we'd love you to talk about being an engineer with us. So if this person who has a whole lot of promise is a little bit shy and they doubt their own abilities, just say, let us be the judge of that and get them into the interview because you never know when you're going to find like a proverbial diamond in the rough.

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