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I have 4 years of dev experience and I'm having a hard time getting a job here in Canada. :(

What happened to trusting people? This testing culture is sickening. It's all bullshit, used for marketing purposes only. "We only employ tested and vetted developers of the outmost highest understanding and top skills in the whole universe, because we do not believe in anyone than ourselfves." Utter trash is what it is. Do you think a doctor gets a home assignment? Do you think your car mechanic will do home assignment? No, they will not.

It is better to make a project, than solving leetcode problems . You will learn much more and it will make you really better programmer :)

One thing I’ve been doing to help w/ my anxiety is just breaking the ice right away, and telling the person(s) im meeting that I’m shy & a bit socially awkward, and it helps me feel better in the situation after that👍

This Video is extremely underrated, it's just full of value and we're pretty sure a lot of people will relate to it. Keep doing you, you rock !

I'm always trying to push out the perfect digital terd. It's exhausting.

Better than the multi-billionaires paying more taxes. The government should order Big tech to develop algorithms that creates a universal base income (UBI) based on OUR DATA and establish a fair valuation that would compensate us the consumers for the use of OUR DATA, (world's greatest commodity) by big tech development of marketing strategies that only generate billions of dollars for big tech monopolies. Right now, we get nothing in return but scientific personalized advertising inviting us to keep consuming and enlarging the already obscene multi-billion big tech pockets without any financial benefit for us the other 98%.

Man this video is very helpful, I just am too scared and lazy to put myself put there and act

With 25 years of experience, im having a different issue. Where are all the eager and curious junior developers?? Maybe companies are not hiring for those same junior roles, where there is an expectation of the need for growth and even mentoring. My recommendation is to build trusted relationships wirh helpful senoir developers. Realize that helping them is helping you. Dont be taken advantage of, but be useful

Great video. I especially relate to comparing yourself with others. It's easier said than done and I know I shouldnt do it. I am currently in a leadership role and it looks really great on paper. It's a remote role, company is relatively not breathing around your neck for targets, but the burnout is still real especially the pressure I put on myself of constantly feeling like a failure even nobody is really telling this to me. The people around me greatly affect that feeling especially when the company culture is all about visibility and being vocal about sharing your work in group chat, public emails, which really is not me so I constantly feel I am not the type of person who fits in. I am grateful of this job, but have been unhappy for a very long time.

you are basically me bro i’m in halfway through the video it’s really stressful being like that, hope i get my answer at the very end of the video 🤞🏻

Please NOTICE us in advance when you visit Korea. We need to be ready to welcome you.

When will young engineers realize there are more than 3 companies in the tech world?

I was a new engineer in 1999/2000. This current decline in tech jobs is nothing compared to 2000....not yet anyway.

This guy is handsome

Sometimes i think studying is memorizing

Really nicely presented, I struggled with this issue a lot. Thanks for sharing your approach and notion template

Yeah, it's really bad. But if you look at the graph now it's actually ~29% up from the all time low only a year ago. It's getting better.

I quit software after 8 years of working..its been 10 month now ,,,am still recovering from health issues i got from the extreme stress in the job.I dont know what to do now, i m just lost..as i cant go back to software ..its like a deadend now for me...i ve almost run out of my saving ,,yet dont know what to do..i can teach physics and maths but it wont pay me as well as IT also it is very competitive here in india.

Sounds more like midlife crisis 😉

thank you for a realistic vid on not just the same old study skill tips , and actually discussing the very real barriers we feel and how to overcome them 🥺

1. Never criticize or complain 2. Be careful in arguments, completely destroying the other dude makes unnecessary enemies. So control your temper, understand the other person's perspective 3. Awkward convos are normal. It happens sometimes... don't stress over it so much 4. Avoiding an interaction cause of anxiety is only going to make it harder to face the next time the same scenario comes 5. Don't trash yourself for something that didn't go quite right. Take that as a learning point. 6. Don't overthink stuff that you can't control. Go learn Still D.R.E on the piano instead. The video has a list as well at 13:09

The lesson at the end of this video is not it. Numbers and luck for sure did not matter as much as swallowing your pride and working at the skills you are being hired for.

“Burnout happens when you do something unfulfilling long enough” is such an important point. It’s not just working tons of hours. Great video!

Thank you for posting this - I have been job hunting for months with little luck, so this is exactly what I needed to hear today 💫

have you achieved financial independence?

i avoid others because i don’t wanna get killed, stabbed, or just die. it’s probably due to seeing my dad die in the hospital when i was 9. for your information, i am currently 16 years old. i have something that tells me i’m gonna die on June 28, 2028. i don’t understand this mental “message” or threat🤷‍♀️

You look at your friends and you think you missing out on what you could be doing right now.

They are forced to change by circumstance

Me too. I took it seriously cause I wanted it to be the best application possible. That was my motivation.

is this a question? OF COURSE

If you are the smartest person in the room.... You are in the wrong room. Your interview reminds me of one of mine. When I got out of the military, I applied at MCI WorldCom (bonus if you remember them!) for a job as a SONET fiber optic transport engineer. I knew jack shit about fiber optics and even less about the SONET architecture. I studied the tech for a few days. Books only, this was 2000. I bullshitted the interview, got the job and was now making more than any 23 year old had a right to make. I found a guy quickly that I trusted and confided in him that I had no idea what the fuck I was doing. He was cool and taught me what I needed to know. Good times. Fake it till you make it. What did I have to lose?

At least hard work gives you results. The really bad thing when you hard work but it doesn't pay off.

i got social anxiety Too 🥺

We are slowly going back to the late 80s early 90s where the people who are supposed to program won't lose their jobs but the tech slave jobs following tr3nds ai will replace. The 2% that innovate and create the tools work with embedded systems, mechanical engineering and such won't lose their jobs. Since ai can't learn if something hasn't been created yet.

DO NOT LEAVE COLLEGE without a job, regardless of your degree. The college environment is the best place to land your first job with all the services available. You should have a job offer already going into your senior/last year. If you do not...its code red...your entire senior year should be 100% focus on landing a job

As an unemployed loser, I would like to say...I feel you. When I used to work I felt like I was dying everyday

I am looking for a entry web developer job now, but 3months unemployed made me frustrating and losing hope in this industry. only I can see Hiring junior entry job : experience 3~5years, bunch of certifications.

I think LeetCode is great for entry level. But, after that point if you have real world code out there, I'm more interested in that. What you can make matters more to me at the end of the day. Software is about making a great products and services. Not to forget providing excellent support for it as well. This drives sale and growth and ultimately this is what the business cares about. I wish more people thought like I did. I think there are some major issues in Software Engineering industry today. People may not like me saying this but I think this industry is not open to new ideas as much as you would think. Why not just ask the programmer to build a small app during the interview. If a programmer can build me lets say a mobile app with a DB, Auth, Backend & Frontend in an hour and make it look half way decent I'm impressed.

A common misconception is that the Stock Market is the economy.

I accidentally got into a smart student class. I totally understand how it feel to surround by super smart people. I chose to give up back and still cant move on from that feeling.

What's the difference between a lightbulb and a software engineer? A lightbulb STOPS working when it burns out. 😭

This is absurd. I know I'm going to get rocked for this comment but "what did you do in school" is crazy. MF i got a CS degree with a high GPA wtf do you mean what did I do? It took me 40 - 60 hours a week including lectures, driving, studying, reading, notes, programming, etc just to maintain a high GPA and graduate with honors. Your response will probably be like "wHy Do yOu cArE sO mUcH aBt GPA???". Getting an A in an upper division computer science course demonstrates that not only you understand the theoretical background, but you also completed the projects required of the class to an exemplary standard. If understanding 90%+ of the content required for a Bachelors in CS and applying it within in-course projects is not enough on its own, then companies just need to change their education requirements from Bachelor's to Masters for Junior Dev roles. Crazy.

I worked for 4 years and still couldn’t get any job (2 interview in 2 month) even I have a good portfolio.

Answer me this, what are people honestly doing right now? I want to know what percentage of those who can't get a job are unemployed and sitting at home, or working at McDonald's?

suddenly you realized all this shit is meaningless and the job is just stress. Been doing tech for 17 years at a high level and getting paid well. I'm 100% burnt tf out. Great video!

I arrived at a similar system, eventually. I also came to similar conclusions about leetcode. It helps me gain confidence in approaching difficult problems. How to organize my thoughts and keep pushing for more efficient solutions. Thank you for sharing your journey!

Thanks for the free depression

I really enjoyed hearing about your career experiences in software engineering. At least you had the opportunity to be in the field and experience the ups and downs. I graduated from ASU in 2019 with a BS in Software Engineering, but I haven’t been able to land a single job in the SE field. After graduation, I realized I had to teach myself many "missing" courses, like Data Structures & Algorithms (DS&A). It's surprising that a software engineering graduate from ASU didn't receive training in DS&A, especially when it’s a crucial component of job interviews in the field. It seemed that the curriculum at ASU was more focused on DevOps, software building, and CI/CD, rather than the fundamentals that are tested in SWE job interviews. It's been nearly five years since I graduated, and I still haven't secured a job in software engineering, due to a mix of bad luck and an unappealing résumé. Currently, I'm enrolled in a certificate program at my local university for embedded software engineering, hoping this will improve my prospects. Investing so much money into a field only to end up with educational debt and no job is really disheartening. I wish I had the chance to experience burnout in SWE like you did. I’ll keep you posted on my progress.

This might be underrated, but just eating at regular times and popping vitamins every once in a while.