Here’s Why Some Developers Make $400,000 While Most Don’t

The Training and Growth Strategies of World-Class Developers

In my experience, successful people are successful because they have such enormous personal problems that literally becoming the best in the world is less hard than solving them. So all the productivity and health life tips are totally missing the point….

Anna Gát, Founder of Interintellect

The best engineers in the world have only one thing in common: their obsession. They are modern-day stoics who never settle, driven by an insatiable desire to achieve more.

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This edition is about the best developers in the world.

An Unknown Platform

When I graduated with my software engineering degree, I thought the doors of the tech world would swing wide open for me, welcoming me into any company of my choosing. Yet, to my surprise, I soon discovered that the tech hiring process was completely different from what I expected.

I spent the next years working for small companies, programming boring input forms, fixing buttons, and filling Jira tickets so that my project manager wouldn’t complain. It was only years later when a friend, one of those…