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How FAANG Engineers Deal With Underperformance on Their Team
Episode 54 of The Tech Career Podcast tackles a delicate topic that rarely gets discussed openly: what happens when a teammate is underperforming. Lucas and Luna break down the specific steps FAANG engineers take before escalating — from data-driven documentation to skip-level conversations. They walk through a real case: a senior engineer at Alphabet who was three sprints behind on a critical dependency, how his teammates handled it, and what the outcome was. The episode covers the difference between 'coasting' and genuine performance issues, how to use the 'fail fast, fix fast' framework…
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