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  1. Great vid as always!
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  2. awesome vid steve :)
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  3. Happy new year Steve! I appreciate your excellent content and channel.
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  4. Like how it’s growing from 30 to 35 during the video 😂
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  5. Great video.
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  6. Thank you for your knowledge sharing, happy holidays
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  7. Well I am an accountant and not even a coder and this was a fascinating video. Your analysis of what happens when the company does the 2 year cut was bang on
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  8. Man when people hit 100K+ subs, they quit their jobs AND get their teeth fixed 🤣. I’m starting a YT channel bro 😂😂😂 💵💵💵💵💵
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  9. Been there since the meta days, looking forward to your future content!
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  10. This is great!
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  11. you are the star!
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  12. Well done, mate! Glad for you! I'm finishing my last 2 days in the company where I was working for the last 12 years. I know exactly how you feel. I'm pretty sure you will be alright. Keep it up! 👍🏻
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  13. I love this video, Steve. This is actual proper actionable advice, thank you! Excuse my cliché question, but if someone implements the advice you provided here but does not have a computer science degree, do you think they have a good chance of landing a desirable SWE role in today's market?
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  14. This is so true. Thank you for sharing. I am so grateful that I have been able to find your "A Life Engineered" blog and now this YouTube channel. Full of gems
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  15. Great video!
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  16. Even though it's targeted towards career, some of these points really feel like they extend to my life haha. Thank you!
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  17. When you caused a sev 1 and need to do a COE, your better CYA.
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  18. Congratulations, this is definitely the next step and way for you to grow. Big tech employee maximizes your time for profit. Time for you now to maximize your influence and results for profit. This is the best for you, your family, friends, and your users and viewers. Btw getting teeth fixed at a later age is fine. As soon as your braces are off you'll realise during the brief duration they were on, literally noone around you cared lol. The only thing you're gonna care about is that you didn't do it sooner, but even then, this is so small and is nothing you'll think about, except when writing a comment like this one to someone.
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  19. nice kindle flex :)
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  20. I feel like a lot of people in this video didnt actually pay attention to the video and went off commenting their own opinions disregarding some or not even knowing some of the video's points
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  21. liked and subscribed. I like the your whole vibe man. I think we would be good friends. I love engineering though and I am a little surprised you won't miss building things for just yourself and are completely retiring from software development. I am about the same age and work as a senior data engineer but on side I build video games for fun. Maybe you are getting that joy from building your youtube channel.
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  22. yo big thug you got this keep it gangsta
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  23. 2nd week into my first job, #16 really struck a chord in me as I was struggling with unrealistic expectations for myself plus the fear of letting others down Thanks again for the great advices
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  24. you are the big bro/uncle i wish i had growing up
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  25. Congrats! This is huge :)
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  26. 😂 “and my sentences right don’t come out sometimes” 2:36 😂
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  27. Steve, congrats and best of luck with your future endeavours. I was part of the mass Amazon layoffs in 2023, after being there for just under 13 years. I decided it would be better for me to spend time with my kids and family as well, so looking for a job isn't that high of a priority. plus, those Amazon stocks after 10+ years huh? ;). Our paths crossed briefly while I was at Amazon, as I was mostly in the Fulfillment space. Again, all the best!
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  28. All of my fav tech youtubers in one video, love this <3
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  29. Te quiero mucho tío Steve
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  30. Liked, commented, and subscribed to the channel and newsletter. Rooting for you!
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  31. Excellent video. Thank you! You are making a change!
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  32. Excellent one. It would be cool if you can share the tool you developed to rank the hard problems.
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  33. Evan catching strays here haha
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  34. multiplying the acceptance rate by 0.5 doesn't do anything in the formula
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  35. I am really inspired by you, Steve. I admire the path you took: Start something on the side and when you quit, put all your energy into it. When I joined Amazon, I read mtlynch's posts on quitting Google. I was clear I didn't want to work full-time employed until retirement. But at the same time, I found myself learning and growing so much that I like the job. So I decided the best way to live life is by stages. Every 7 to 10 years making a big change. Kind of like a decade change. My 20s are for working in big tech and growing. My 30s I will see. Doing it in this order helps with financial security. Best of luck mate. The best is in front of you. Fran.
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  36. You use the fleet manager analogy both as an example of a job that will be empowered by AI (makes it easier to manage drivers, who will be replaced) and as an example of a job that may be replaced (when you say that Amazon managers being let go will be like fleet managers being phased out). These can both be true, but presenting it like this makes your view feel arbitrary. You can say that there's a finite number of cars, which points to driving as finite work, but what's to stop someone from saying there's a finite number of computers that developers work on making that finite work? An obvious answer here is that developers are not constrained to working on a "single computer" or maybe we can even argue that virtual computers are computers and developers are really just "managing development" or maybe you argue that a developer need not be constrained by computers at all since that's the "easy" part that could be replaced by AI and the hard part is the other stuff. But then in that case will the line between dev and line managers or product managers become blurred? As a dev, none of these are my actual views on AI, but it is the chain of logic I go through while watching these videos, and I'm not really sure I know where you stand despite the amount of thoughts you've given here because of how they've been organized. Anyways - still enjoyed the video, good food for thought regardless.
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  37. Like the person you mentioned in the video I've rewatched your videos a lot. The storytelling ones in particular are really helping me with behavioral questions. I write the answers out and then go over your video to make sure I hit the points in a good way. The content in the world is largely made by people much less experienced than you-- hearing how to talk to other professionals from someone at your level is the kind of gold that's normally behind closed doors only. Thank you for being open about things you wished you had done differently too, I've been there. Moved too fast, missed out on certain things. You live, you learn, you move on. But it's nice to hear even after all your experience everyone can make mistakes sometimes. It's a good reminder that failure is just part of the road to success. I'm both super proud of you and super thankful for all of the resources you've made. The way you've condensed your experience for us all will no doubt help me for the rest of my career and life. Thanks Steve and Happy Holidays!
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  38. Thanks Steve for the opportunity - you've been incredibly generous in giving me advice as well. Cheers to you and everyone here!
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  39. Steve, thanks for advices! This video resonates with me. I'm in my second half of the 30th and for lots of tips I was "so true!" especially about music from your 20th - lol. Like I listen to new music, but hearing music from my late teens, early 20s makes me so nostalgic!
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  40. Me watching this right before I go on-call tomorrow, having dealt with a customer impacting issue last Friday :D. PS : I am part of the the Media Ingestion and Processing team in Prime Video.
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  41. awesome vid. as a mid level engineer, i echo with what's in the video. and hoepfully i'll not be at the end of a sev1.
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  42. In terms of monetary value, Steve's videos are provided for free with substantial value-add. Thanks for sharing!
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  43. Big plus-1 to anything Kurzgesagt. I've spent an unreal amount of hours just watching their YouTube videos.
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  44. Great insights! Thanks for sharing your experiences so that we can all avoid making the same mistakes.
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  45. another day of invaluable lessons from a world-class engineer for free :yougotthis:
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  46. Congrats on baby #2 🎉. We’ll support you. Your content, experience, and charm is unique and much needed on the Internet. Thank you so so much for everything. I follow you everywhere, from your YouTube, to discord to LinkedIn. The reason I haven’t used Patreon is because I don’t need it currently. I am in big tech myself as a SWE. If there’s anything I can to help beyond my following, I will be happy to contribute to these amazing things you’re preparing!!!
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  47. You're a big inspiration for me in tech and as an engineer love to see your content Steve!
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  48. Pure gold.
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  49. Highly underrated video
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  50. Rahul advice about storytelling is quite interesting, I have been promoted to lead in my last jobs but this year I have struggled to even land interview nows, I tweaked my resume to highlight why they put me as a lead (initiative and proactive in presenting solutions), pretty useful set of advices
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