Brian Attwell shares his journey from reaching Senior Staff Engineer at Uber by age 25 to becoming CTO at CloudKitchens. He discusses extreme work ethic, truth-seeking as a management philosophy, redesigning performance evaluation systems to reduce politics and empire-building, and experiences working with Travis Kalanick. The conversation covers interviewing for intelligence, prioritization frameworks using expected value calculations, and critiques of how big tech companies handle performance management and compensation.
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