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How FAANG Engineers Break Down Impossible Projects
Lucas and Luna explore how FAANG engineers tackle projects that seem too big or too ambiguous to start. Using the example of a hypothetical infrastructure migration at a company like Uber, Lucas explains the 'thin slice' approach: instead of building the whole system at once, engineers identify the smallest end-to-end path that delivers value, then iterate. Luna questions whether this works for teams with tight deadlines, and Lucas shares how he saw an engineer at his former company reduce a six-month project to a two-week prototype by ruthlessly cutting scope. The episode also covers how to…
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