# The Pragmatic Engineer

9 Hacker News commenters recommended The Pragmatic Engineer and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Engineers recommend it for interviews with experienced software engineers and a newsletter on practical engineering cases, including how teams handle AI coding agents.

## Why people recommend it

- Accomplished engineers as podcast guests (2 comments): "a podcast whose guests almost always have very impressive technical careers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036948)) "especially since watching this pragmatic engineer pod with Kent Beck" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026874))
- Gergely praised as interviewer and host (2 comments): "it's a great channel/podcast. Gergely is a great interviewer." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208928)) "I think you will like his philosophies, I sure do." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413889))

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- [Behind the Bastards podcast](https://hackerapproved.com/p/behind-the-bastards-podcast.md): 18 recommend
- [Mindscape podcast by Sean Carroll](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mindscape-podcast.md): 18 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Pragmatic Engineer", https://hackerapproved.com/p/pragmatic-engineer-podcast/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).