Aug 1, 2025
On this week's episode of the
podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Dilip
Krishnamoorthi. He's a software engineer working at Sony, building
user interfaces for Playstation game consoles where he's been for
10 years.
We talk about:
- How he dropped out of a traditional Indian university and used an
inexpensive distance learning program to finish his engineering
degree for less than US $100 / semester
- What it's like working in Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of
Asia
- His experience launching the Playstation 5
- Tips for continuing to learn new tools even as a senior
engineer
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Wikipedia article on Flow State, a concept Dilip mentions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
- An IGN article about major improvements to Playstation 5's UI
that Dilip worked on:
https://www.ign.com/articles/ps5s-ui-the-five-biggest-gamechangers
- Webcomic about the perils of context switching:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/60wx3z/this_is_why_you_shouldnt_interrupt_a_programmer/#lightbox