Epilogue: With all due respect, you have an unbelievable career, IBM, Autodesk, Google, Box and now Meta. None of those companies would give me five minutes of

Epilogue: With all due respect, you have an unbelievable career, IBM, Autodesk, Google, Box and now Meta. None of those companies would give me five minutes of their time because I am self-taught, yet here we are :) Correlation does not imply causation. I’m also self taught and some of those companies have given me a lot more than 5 minutes of their time. Here’s some unsolicited feedback - I interpreted your comment above as implying you know more than $peer, and it comes off a little snarky with the emoji face. That approach doesn’t demonstrate professionalism to me. On the other end, $peer focuses on the technical challenge. Most of the gig boils down to communicating ideas.