Comments by "" (@tHebUm18) on "A Life Engineered" channel.

  1. The content in your videos is gold, thanks for making them!
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  2. I think this is solid advice, but also feel it assumes an unrealistic level of empathy and understanding out of interviewers. Steve was clearly on the other side of the table too often to not have interviews where the interviewer yielded no hints and basically rolls their eyes at your struggle, recognizing that they can't leave when they already made up their mind. Especially in the current job market where employers have essentially all the power--essentially endless applicants means there's not much incentive to give a chance to anyone who might not work out. Post the job again, get 100's of applicants in days again, try again. Interviewers are people too--equally as imperfect as the interviewees, but in the position of power to be very picky.
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  3. Interview order is always tricky--what if you get an offer that's also a big upgrade from one of the early "practice" ones and naturally want to accept it and certainly can't ask them to wait a month or more for your dream job process. Then you're in a weird spot of either positioning yourself to potentially leave within months or wait much longer for that dream job anyway--or, if you're super bold I guess, declining a hard won offer because you think you can do better. Also most openings close quickly in this job market--maybe fine for companies with 10,000's of employees that always have some hiring market conditions suiting, but many great smaller companies out there where they only get a small number of positions a year.
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  4. Thank you for answering my question! I wish I was still under 30--only after burning out in grad school (physics PhD program) and spending time lost in the weeds did I successfully pivot to landing a software gig in my late 20's to start my career. I am in the US, but not a tech hub and not really looking to relocate. Food for thought on potential to 3x my income, but also feel more behind on personal life goals than career ones--especially since I feel my job has ample amounts of making the world a better place, as opposed to most corporate gigs.
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  5. What are your thoughts on terminal career level for most SWEs? Is never moving beyond senior SWE ideal for compensation relative to work/responsibility if you don't care about corporate ladder climbing? Nearing 6 years into my career--worked hard initially and learned lots, got promoted to senior level quick by company standards (4 years vs 6-8 usually), became fairly burned out/unhappy with my company during COVID, got a new job as a senior SWE doing essentially the same thing (for nearly double the pay with much better surrounding team/processes/etc.). Probably still generally feeling burned out, but could see happily coasting along where I'm at now making ~$130k with minimal stress (good for my market, 100% remote role) and not really pushing for more. Thanks for making the best SWE career advice content on YT!
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  6. 5:43 Based on your income video, get out of here with that "lean FIRE or barista FIRE existence." Using the 4% rule, you probably are already set for a healthy retirement unless you live a far less down to earth lifestyle than the vibes you give off.
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  7. Irrelevant.
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  8. TFW when the best software engineer content creator by far on the internet drops his day job to focus on making more content. 😃
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  9. My old company did that as standard practice (only moves in/out of "management" entailed an immediate change)--super dumb and great way to tell your employees you don't value them, but as already mentioned: higher title looks good on the resume. Also nicely allows you to split your experience sections for a job by role so you can brag that you were promoted and have another section to list more stuff you did there if resume length was a concern. Lastly, if you can't find something else when raises do come back--you're de facto underpaid for your title and that's leverage for you and your management to push for right sizing you.
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  10. Amazon also claimed to have AI tracking purchases in their grab and go stores that ended up being literal Indians watching cameras. Seems like one of the biggest things Amazon has been developing in recent years is lies about AI.
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  11. Mistake #2 solidifies what I suspect most folks here already knew: Uncle Steve is a workaholic. Edit: and others, not just mistake 2.
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  12. Career advice or life advice? 😃
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