How New Staff Engineers Build Judgment Without Years of Experience

Podcast: Beyond Coding · Patrick Akil

Opublikowano: 2026-08-26

How do new staff engineers build judgment without the years of experience that used to come with the role? Mallika Rao, engineering leader in big tech, explains why the data-structures-and-algorithms foundation everyone was trained on is no longer enough on its own, and where the complexity has actually shifted now that AI writes the implementation. In this video, we cover: Why "how does AI affect engineers" is the wrong question, and what to ask insteadRehearsing multiple futures: what judgment looks like in a staff engineerThe case method: building judgment from incident reports and system design history...