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How FAANG Engineers Use Learning Projects to Build Career Capital
In this episode of The Tech Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a career strategy that top tech engineers use quietly: side learning projects. Not the side hustles you read about on Twitter, but deliberate, small-scope builds that close a specific skill gap and get noticed internally. Lucas walks through the anatomy of a high-leverage learning project with a concrete example: an engineer who built a small internal tool to automate a painful reporting workflow, turning a tedious task into a promotion accelerant. They discuss how to pick a project that aligns with your team's priorities, how…
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