With the infinite amount of tutorials and infrastructure services out there nowadays, writing code really isn't hard - Just getting things to work is much easier than ever before. This means that if you want to stand out as a software engineer, you need to write much better code than almost everybody else.
Every engineer needs high code quality, especially at Big Tech companies like FAANG where the slightest mistake can hurt hundreds of thousands of users and cost millions of $$. After going through this course, you will:
Now you might be looking at this and thinking, "I need to move fast, I don't have time to write the perfect code". This is a very understandable misconception many engineers have before getting to the highest-levels, but it couldn't be further from the truth: When you write better code, you will actually move faster as a software engineer. Don't believe us? - Take the course and find out why!
Alex Chiou is a proven Silicon Valley engineer with 10 years of experience across top tech companies like PayPal, Course Hero (now Learneo, a $3.6B unicorn), Meta, and Robinhood. Across his entire storied career, he has been a champion of code quality and woven it into so many of his accomplishments:
At Course Hero, Alex was hired as their first Android engineer and tech lead. From there, he grew the team from 1 to 4 engineers and led the Course Hero Android app to having the highest NPS by far of any Course Hero surface (web, iOS, and Android) with the most 5 star ratings.
At Meta, Alex was a Top 5% code committer and Top 1% reviewer, always getting Exceeds Expectations or higher on the Engineering Excellence performance review axis every half:
Outside of work, Alex has built several side projects at scale and with a stunning degree of quality: