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How FAANG Engineers Read Code Faster
Episode 72 of The Tech Career Podcast with Fexingo dives into a skill rarely taught but critical for career growth: reading code efficiently. Lucas and Luna break down a study showing top engineers at Google spend 70% of their time reading, not writing code. They share concrete tactics like tracing execution paths top-down, using grep to find variable definitions, and reading design documents before diving into the codebase. The hosts also discuss how to navigate legacy code without feeling overwhelmed, why 'just run it' is sometimes faster than reading, and how to build a personal library of…
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