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  1. Playing League of Legends with a controller makes you a terrible player.
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  2. I hear you, if you can't get past a phone screen it this advice doesn't work. My point was once you get an interview loop stop over-focusing on leetcode questions.
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  3. It's not that bad.
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  4. That's big coming from Nunchuck daddy.
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  5. Make sure to put office hours questions in the comments. You can find Rahul Pandey's channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulPandeyrkp FYI, projected retirement numbers assume a 9% YoY growth, the average since 2006.
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  6. If you guys have other high-leverage skills I'd love it if you shared in the comment section.
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  8. 1. If the project is framed an opportunity, and not just more work, I think you'll find folks thats need to grow in the areas that the project provides easily. 2. You need to draw boundaries and prioritize. If you are keeping something alive that requires a team of people to do well, sometimes you need to remove yourself because something more important will suffer. Let the wheel get squeaky, it's the one that gets the grease. 3. I wouldn't know. 4. Because people management is not what I want to do at this point. 5. Focus on the things you want to do and ruthlessly and unapologetically prioritize. You can't do the stuff you need to do if you are doing stuff that you shouldn't. 6. Yes but I don't let my WLB suffer. You should focus on 1-3 things during a week on top of your obligations you can't get out of. If you get efficient you can do so much more with less time with no loss of fidelity. My goal this year is to be 2x more productive without working more. It may seem impossible but I'm tracking well so far.
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  9. You just started. Working on discrete tasks is is not going to be impactful, the tasks are designed at this point to give you context on your team's code and systems. If you got assigned the same task twice the second time it will be much faster because you know how to do it now. Soak it in like a sponge now, don't worry about how long things take, focus on learning and doing quality work, later you can squeeze and contribute to impactful things once you get your feet underneath you.
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  10. You need to create what's known as a "brag document". I'll make a video on it soon.
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  11. To apply to have me be your mentor go here: https://forms.gle/dmBrSNkTujViRvmJA This video references another mentorship video that will be published in the coming weeks.
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  12. It depends on the company, but generally tech leads are team leaders. So at my company I would say a tech lead probably reports to a front-line manager or senior manager, principal engineers report to directors and VPs. The other difference is that tech leads will sometimes straddle the line between engineer and manager. Typically they won't do the people management portion, but will do things like work with product/program teams to clarify requirements, help with planning and timelines, and provide some air cover for their team.
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  13.  @JulianSnow  The easiest and most general way to do this is to hack yourself to be curious about how things work. It will take you far.
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  14. Good point. It's really hard to describe the differences in level across companies.
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  16. Of course the question about how I speak so well is chopped up to bits in the edit. Sigh. Also, I'm an idiot, ""people that look like they're 40 that are actually 25, and a bunch of people that are 25, look like they're actually 40" 🤦If you have questions please leave them in the comments section below and I'll answer them in the next episode! Continue the conversation on my Discord server - https://discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ
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  17. It is a skill you learn over time. Step one is realizing you have an issue. Second is to understand you are forcing the listener to do a lot of work filtering the noise from the signal. This trains people to not seek your opinion because it’s too much work. Practice writing TL;DRs and trust if more details are necessary you can provide them on demand.
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  19. One thing I forgot to mention was I was promoted during the great recession by hedgehogging because more scope came my way, not because I was seeking it. Continue the conversation on my Discord: https://discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ Check out my Patreon if you'd like to support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/ALifeEngineered
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  20. Great point. If you can get a sense of what strategic problems they are chewing on you can position the architecture to address their concerns.
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  21. When it comes to your career you should be selfish. If you want to join a team that is sinking because it represent an opportunity for your growth, that's a good reason to stay. Sinking ships are rarely a positive thing because something fundamental needs to change. In my experience that necessary change is unlikely to be hiring more SDEs because the good engineers left.
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  22. I ask myself this a lot. I think the chances I would be rehired at my position are 75%. It's sad but it's the reality of the world.
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  23. Watch my videos, more to come. I still have impostor syndrome. Unless you are overconfident, it's actually weird not to have it. It just means you are trying to grow, which is really a brave thing. If you never feel it then you aren't trying to do amazing things.
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  24. This is exactly my day to day workflow. I have used Notion every day for the past two years!
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  28. If you need a job practice leetcode. The point of my story was that I was grinding leetcode and I wasn't looking for a job, that was dumb of me.
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  31. 1. More to come, stay tuned. 2. A good engineer can pick up a new tech stack quickly. Make sure to have some examples of where you were able to pick up new things quickly and become an effective contributor.
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  33. You just need to humanize people. It's not that anybody is evil, it's just that we all make sub-optimal choices from time to time. If your tech lead made a poor decision, being able to put yourself in their shoes and describe why they would make such a decision is all it takes. I'll pick something outrageous. Suppose your tech lead decided that to save time and make a deadline you weren't allowed to write unit tests. I would say something like "My tech lead decided that we weren't allowed to write tests anymore so we could meet a deadline. I pushed back and said that was a bad idea but I got overruled. I understand why he did it, if we didn't hit the deadline we wouldn't have a job next month so everything was on the table. Things blew up in our face and it took more time to deliver because we had to fix all of the bugs that were checked in, but I was able to mitigate the situation by ....."
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  34. Not with that attitude. Figure out what a good differentiator would be and work on that.
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  35. Agreed, satisfaction comes from within. If you like where you are at you don't need my videos.
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  38. Great video Kevin. I'm still on step two.
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  39. Entry level. You should spend your time on leetcode until you are comfortable.
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  40. Watch my channel and do good work.
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  41. For junior engineers just focus on the quality of your work. Every pull request or check-in is sacred and should represent the best you can do.
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  43. Keep on plugging away. Interviews are random, things will work out over time if you put the time in.
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  44. I agree tech interviews are broken. You have to prepare in very strange ways to be successful with them.
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  45. Completely agree. There is a diminishing return for coding preparation, especially for senior positions. Get good enough and make sure you can do a good systems design and tell good behavioral stories.
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  46. I do everything by being apologetically single threaded.
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  48. I did it first.
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  49. I agree, just updated.
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  50. Thanks for the feedback I will do so in the future.
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  51. IYKYK
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  52. Actions speak louder than words. Maybe this isn't the best place for the type of career growth you're after.
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  53. I’ve work on many teams at Amazon doing many different things. I’ve learned and grown from every single one in dimensions that really surprised me. The only sign of weakness is being stagnant and not growing, and that will stick out like a sore thumb.
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  54. The best stories will be about projects where you had many obstacles to delivery but persisted to achieve a successful outcome. You want to highlight your grit and resourcefulness.
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  55. Stay on your team and get promoted if it’s going to happen soon. Don’t stay on the team with a promise to get promoted, if they string you along it’s time to go.
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  56. Coming soon!
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  59. First rule of selling is understanding what the buyer needs. What do your leaders care about and tailor your message to that. If you don’t know what they want then start there. I’ve found often engineering management will have a simple set of desires - lowering costs, delivering on time, staffing (hiring, attrition), etc. They often aren’t interested in big projects unless the benefits are absolutely clear. If you are having problems getting buy-in make sure you are upfront about what the benefits are and why it’s worth the expense, opportunity costs are real and the numbers are big.
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  61. This is a big topic and I might do a video on it. Generally, you should bring things to your manager in 1:1s and not ask them what to do next. So something like "I'd like to get really good at writing design documents, what should I do next?" vs "What do you think I should work on?"
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  64. Move to another team. They aren't all toxic and you can move when you want to.
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  65.  @Omikoshi78  The way to think about it is that a generalist has gone deep in many things, not that they've never gone deep. You can certainly go deep in security and AI and stay there forever, but if you know you want to do other things just make sure you don't stay somewhere too long.
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  66. You bring up a good point. The example I used was for a senior position, like a team lead, so it did have a savior vibe to it, but you would also expect a team leader to have these sorts of stories. I think you can still tell interesting stories where you are an awesome team player!
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  67. I've always thought something like this would be better.
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  68. Different interview sorry for the confusion.
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  69. You are so close!
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  71. Deep analysis of a ticket should lead addressing the root-cause of a large set of issues. If you are closing tickets that just pop up again in a slightly different form are you really working on a ticket? If you don't have time to do the deep dive that will drive the issue to ground, talk to your manager to let them know you are trying to solve the bigger problem. You shouldn't delegate this work, writing code that eliminates a large set of pernicious tickets is a really strong data point that you are really are operating at the senior engineer level.
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  72. Aww, thanks for that. More to come. Life is busy so it may not come out as fast as I'd like.
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  74. I do. If you put the work in it will pay off. I believe in you!
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  75. Have these companies made a lot of profit or spent more money in investments?
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  76. My wife is black.
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  77. There's a video in my 5 essential frameworks that addresses the managerial relationship check it out.
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  78. Should be fixed now.
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  79. Take a look at my latest video.
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  81. Disagree. The vast majority of people on my Discord aren't getting callbacks. If you can land an interview you are already an outlier.
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  82. I had it first!
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  83. The reason managers don't is because their incentives don't always line up with yours. If you had to choose between a good senior engineer and a good front-line manager (obviously nobody has this choice) I would always choose the dev because they can lead a team AND build things.
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  84. Oh yeah, AI devs are going to cost proportionally as much as humans but do a worse job.
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  85. Yes exactly.
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  87. For your resume make sure that the number of years of experience is easy to find for the recruiter so their filters catch you. that's the attribute they use to find senior engineers. Interviewers (sadly) rarely look at the resume before they go in to interview you, so make sure you have some good stories.
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  88. I think my company is a net-good company. I certainly don't agree with all of their actions. If employees are being mistreated I definitely don't agree with it. I don't think the company is evil. Genuinely curious, what for-profit company would be an example of a company that is morally good in your eyes?
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  89.  @DawgFL  Patagonia are truly a one-of-a-kind company and I would love to work for them if they needed software developers. Re: employee mistreatment, I don't believe employees are risking their lives working at the company. They are big company (1MM+ employees) with pockets of bad choices, yes.I don't believe they are evil.
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  90. I thought I said 350k.
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  91. I'm 42.
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  92. Check out my latest video Andres.
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  93. Level up your career and comp → https://fm.dev/a-life-engineered 💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is *chef's kiss* - https://discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ 📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - https://newsletter.alifeengineered.com/ 🙏 My YouTube content will always be free of charge but if you'd like to support the channel, I'd be honored if you supported me on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ALifeEngineered
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  94. I have a lot of things to get better at, this is one of them.
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  95. 🎉 Sign up to get 20% off a year of Brilliant Premium → https://brilliant.org/alifeengineered 📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - https://newsletter.alifeengineered.com/general 💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is *chef's kiss* - https://discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ 💥 My YouTube content will always be free of charge but if you'd like to support the channel, I'd be honored if you supported me on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ALifeEngineered 🚀 If you want to get promoted fast, I'd love to work with you personally: https://speedruntopromotion.com
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  96. Take a look at my video on telling a good story. I think your goal should be to show backend folks the sort of complexity you deal with in a way even they could understand.
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  97. Take the TIRA for free to find out how your SWE skills stack up and where you're interview-ready so you can focus your interview prep and land a role faster ➡ https://fm.dev/a-life-engineered-TIRA 📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - https://newsletter.alifeengineered.co... 💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is chef's kiss - / discord 💥 My YouTube content will always be free of charge but if you'd like to support the channel, I'd be honored if you supported me on Patreon - / alifeengineered 🚀 If you want to get promoted fast, I'd love to work with you personally: https://speedruntopromotion.com
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  98. If you are stuck in the middle I would encourage you to apply anyhow. Many companies, including mine, have really large bands. A fast promotion is possible, assuming the company and comp package is to your liking.
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  99. There's a button on the center of the page that says "Learn You Market Value" where you can schedule time with them.
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  100. Lol I think I do too.
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  101. Do both. You learn a ton by doing a project that you can’t from books and videos. You are adding something to your experience bucket, which is a differentiator when you go applying for jobs. When you get to work you will learn that projects are complicated because you are trying to build things with many people. Nobody wants to work with someone that has never built anything but school assignments or has only book smarts. The hard complicated tech you can always pick on the job, especially if of your company does something niche.
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  102. Thinking about the future doesn't take wall-clock time. If you've thought about things for a while before others have you look really smart in the moment and they will naturally treat you like a senior.
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  103. I said your opinions have to be good, not that are are more clever. You, your manager and team lead have probably made bad decisions at some point because you ignored something that turned out to be really critical to success. When these types of situations crop up again, if you are able to point out these overlooked things, you will be looked at as someone with high-judgement, who can look around corners, and has good opinions. So my advice is to continuously study poor decision making and learn from it.
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  104. Yes I did. Same event.
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  105. It's happening.
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  106. They aren't counting my stock based compensation, just my base wage. I'm working with them to get it corrected.
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  107. They have just issued a correction.
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  108.  @anthonyleong4238  Don't give yourself time, give yourself permission to do the work. Do the right work and good things will come.
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  109. A roadmap is the output to a lot of thought, not the input. You need to do a brutally honest assessment of yourself, your strengths, your gaps, and put a plan in place to grow where YOU need to.
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  110. More to come!
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  113. If you add up the time I've been oncall over my career it is on the years timescale. When you are oncall your time is not yours. You should use your oncall shift to actually fix things so that issues stop cropping up. A lot of times this involves writing code or redesigning systems so that the issues that plague your team don't exist anymore. These are among my favorite check ins, when you can ensure that an entire class of ticket won't be an crop up anymore. So my advice is still relevant, do one thing when you are oncall, put the other stuff in pending, and don't pick up other dev tasks only to be interrupted by a page.
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  114. Yes it is, good eye!
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  116. Hard disagree :)
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  117. Thanks, fixed!
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  118. I don't think I said verbose, maybe I said to be very visible. You want to be seen doing good work, doing it on time, and doing it to high quality. After you've done this you can ask/find more scope. If you want for it to come to you, you may never get it.
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  119. First step is to be very clear about what the expectations are from your manager. Many people don't ask their managers directly about what they expect, sounds like this is you.
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  120. 2 Audio-Technica AT-LP1240. I need a new mixer though.
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  121. That’s good I’m going to steal that.
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  122. Document everything. Ask the outgoing manager to provide the new manager as much context as possible about you.
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  123. That's a long story that I'll get to in time.
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  124. It's hard! I'm working on this.
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  125. First person to notice! I was hoping someone would.
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  126. In a sense. The videos cost me way more to produce than I make in ads.
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  127. Do it and report back!
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  128. If that's the interview question then I'm in trouble too.
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  129. Game recognizes game.
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  130. You should wake up before applying for new roles.
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  132. You need to learn how to do system design.
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  133. Thanks for the comment. More to come.
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  134. Check out my latest video.
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  135. Lol
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  136. I am working on this, it's hard!
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  137. Check out my latest video.
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  138. What a gatekeeper!
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  139. Humans are smart. If they see you thriving and kicking butt they will copy you. If they see you wilting or wearing yourself thin for no reason they will do the opposite. If it looks like you have it figured out they will come to you and ask you how you did it. Telling them to pick it up is unlikely to change their behavior.
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  140. Developers are not constrained by the number of computers. They are necessary proportional to the amount of work they have. I make the argument that the amount of work they have is unbounded. The number of cars is bounded by the number of trips people need to make and the number of cars in the fleet.
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  141. At my company we have 1000s of openings. We will always hire someone we think can do the job.
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  142. It's a deep question, generally we report to directors and sometimes VPs. Sometimes we are contributing directly to projects, especially when they span many teams.
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  143. That was a bit much I'll tone it down.
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  144. If you want to be a senior engineer, growing others around you is a good trait to have. It has a side-benefit, which is that it may eventually free up your bandwidth. Growing others actually steals bandwidth initially, the idea is that the investment will pay off over time, so it is a strategic play. It is not a good tactic for immediately reducing your bandwidth. If your peers are also growing you, that's great, everybody wins. None of this is about min/maxing your bandwidth for short-term gain, you may be conflating growing others with delegation.
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  145. YouTube videos are a good way to discover what to learn. You shouldn't prep for interviews by watching videos.
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  146. 2-4 hours.
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  147. I'll try to get to the point faster in my other videos.
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  148. Agreed. The problem is that there's so much to talk about. My approach is to give folks a direction not the destination so they can do it themselves.
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  149. It works sometimes. If your asynchronous API always blocks on the same set of downstream synchronous calls you may just have a synchronous call with more steps.
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  150. The best would be 6 months in role.
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  151. Absolutely, no need to think about the future if the company won't survive in for 6 months without a release.
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  152. Completely agree.
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  153. It's a problem in our industry.
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  154. I told you exactly how I got promoted.
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  155. Meetings aren’t where high-impact projects that get people promoted are assigned. If your manager is a micromanager move teams. Don’t ghost mandatory meetings where people would miss you.
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  156. They should but they don't a lot of times. I think as mobile development becomes bigger and bigger you will see more of that.
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  157. https://forms.gle/dmBrSNkTujViRvmJA
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  158. STAR is terrible, don't ever use it to create stories. Watch my video on "How to Tell A Good Story" for the right way to do it.
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  159. No, impact is having a strong effect on your environment.
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  160. Not with that attitude! In terms of my peers and those above me, I would guess it's 50/50 folks born in the US vs elsewhere. This is an informed guess because I can't just go ask everybody where they were born. But my experience and your experience are obviously different.
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  161. Yes, join the (free) community and we can chat.
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  162. Senior is just a label. The job description will outline responsibilities and expectations. If they list system design then you should get better at it.
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  163. You have good taste.
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  164. I facilitated the Functional Software Interviewing course internally at Amazon for over 10 years.
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  165. I’m wearing a neo-vintage Bluesey.
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