Frontend Sep 18, 2025

Inside Engineering at Anthropic, Meta and NVIDIA

Jared Reyes shares insights from 10 years of engineering data in big tech, covering AI growth, retention trends, hiring patterns, and the impact of open source, using empirical data from SignalFire’s machine learning-driven analysis.

00:00 Introduction & Speaker Background 01:06 Methodology: SignalFire Data & ML 02:10 AI Engineer Growth Trends 03:45 Engineering Retention Decline 04:41 Engineering Unemployment & Job Markets 06:36 Early Career & College Grad Hiring 07:38 Is FAANG Still Special? 08:24 Non-Traditional Hiring & Diversity 09:09 Company Growth & AI Investment 09:46 Retention & Open Source Correlation 10:22 Closing & Data Access