Advice from the Top 1% of Software Engineers

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Today, we go to San Francisco and ask the top 1% of software engineers for advice on life, career, and tech. These software engineers work at FAANG companies like Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. Some are junior engineers and others are senior/staff+. Collectively, the people I interviewed have over 25+ years of experience.
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0:21 - Interviews
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@jessicqbowmaster3372 4 месяца назад

I love how open and transparent the interviewees were. Great content as always!

@namanhkapur 4 месяца назад

made my heart happy, thanks!!

@pepperdayjackpac4521 3 месяца назад

everywhere I look in the software engineering industry, there is an Indian

@vulturebeast 3 месяца назад

Yes 😂

@jacobmorres9817 3 месяца назад

Why did you frame that negatively

@pepperdayjackpac4521 3 месяца назад

@@jacobmorres9817 did I?

@dialac1 3 месяца назад

I have indian friends. They tell me their parents agree to pay for college in exchange for picking their major or giving them a set list of what they can study

@Hema-desu 3 месяца назад

Because population. From what I see, there are many employee in many companies. It's relate to indian and Chinese (or something relate east asean countries)

@br0ken_107 4 месяца назад

Man I love these interviews, the advices they give really help me when I feel unconfident, sometimes you know something but you need to hear it from someone who has gone through this before and made it. Please keep doing such interviews, have a nice day.

@namanhkapur 4 месяца назад

more to come, thanks for watching!

@yesm4n 3 месяца назад

Awesome interviews. You must have worked so hard to set these up, thank you Namanh and the interviewees.

@madanrao5745 3 месяца назад

How are you defining top 1% ? Most of them seem to have no more than 2 years of work experience. Genuinely curious…

@pH7Programming 3 месяца назад

clickbait 🙃

@egg2296 2 месяца назад

because they seem to work at the top 1% software companies! idk if you have any tech background but people usually consider a job from MAANG or Microsoft as a dream job. and since they work there, its safe to assume that they are in the top 1%

@ghdshds1899 2 месяца назад

@@egg2296 MAANG is hardly top 1%. You want top 1%, go to the research or trading firms. MAANG developers are just average developers who went to a good school and did Leetcode.

@soulysouly7253 3 месяца назад

They forgot to mention networking and being at the right place at the right time. Source: Im considered top 1% of engineers by this guy's standard, really I just got into a well known school, got extremely good letters of recommendations, participated in conferences where I networked with industry leaders, got most of my big tech jobs (NVIDIA, AMD and Google) through referrals, two of which I didn't even need to leetcode for. I have a bunch of personal projects but never showcased any of them on my resume anyway so nobody knows about them. It's always been, and it always will be all about selling yourself and knowing the right person. Pure talent is only relevant when the applicant pool is small, but everyone and their mothers have a CS degree now so your actual skills are barely relevant.

@user-pk3jr1ng6h 3 месяца назад

Makes sense

@idkidk9137 3 месяца назад

Source: Nepo baby

@milkandhenny 3 месяца назад

Looool, well if you're ever looking to make new friends here I am!

@allisonmarkus3208 3 месяца назад

heyy Namanh, thankyou for these videos! One suggestion/request, I am not sure this is like asking for wayyy to much or not, but can you try getting LinkedIn profiles of these people you interview (obviously, with their consent), so that we can connect with them.

@michael_adisa 4 месяца назад

I saw a notification from this channel and I checked the vid immediately! I don't need to say I wasn't disappointed... I wasn't expecting to be 😂 The dude from Apple and the PhD lady were really interesting.. Thanks man

@namanhkapur 4 месяца назад

appreciate the support bro

@rothbardfreedom 4 месяца назад

How you got an Apple employee to speak about their project? My experience with Apple people (don't ask how I know) is that anything besides "I work at Apple" is beyond the boundaries for externals.

@________.pathfinder 3 месяца назад

Hey Namanh, Thanks bringing ray of hope is this time of recessions. Your videos helps us to work more. they are just like a Reality which shows that if you work hard then recession will not affect you!.. Thank you so much.. Still i have a question does degree matters?

@zacmuturi4522 2 месяца назад

That "Free Food" answer was wholesome😅

@hmlharrison6285 4 месяца назад

Great video. One question though, as a year one at university, when should I start thinking about creating side projects at the level they do? LIke not something basic like a calculator app, but something complex like the Apple employee's bank text bot? Any advice would be helpful

@sergiunica6166 3 месяца назад

Hi, i am also currently new to programming. I have done some simple projects as rock-papers-scissors, calculator, note app and now I am trying to do some scaling and creating a webscraper. I still google a lot but i feel like this project is exciting. My experience, do basic projects to understand fundamentals and then go to hard projects.

@ahmadmims8852 3 месяца назад

I'm a current software dev with about 3.5 years of experience and graduated college in 2021. I would heavy suggest building an app from scratch - scratch ish. I didn't really think about projects and improving my skills until I got my internship my junior year and I felt so behind. Luckily I was able to get the full time and learn better on the job, but projects would have been very helpful both in getting a job and understanding software engineering

@ahmadmims8852 3 месяца назад

And when I say app. That could be a web app, a desktop app etc. Whatever you prefer

@datboi1861 2 месяца назад

There's a small issue with your line of thinking. A calculator app seems basic when you consider only two numbers: Just perform some basic arithmetic on the two values and return the answer, right? But what happens when you want to solve entire expressions. Unless you have a near-infinite amount of time at your disposal, coding every single arrangement of operators and operands is impossible. So how do you handle something like '2 + 5 - 6 / 4' as opposed to something like '2 * (1 / 3) ^ 5 - 2'? What about the order of precedence? Invalid expressions that have no defined answer? Other edge cases? The sooner you realize that no project you dedicate your time to is 'basic', the closer you are to understanding what you need to start tackling much higher level projects. My advice to you: Just do whatever right now. No matter how basic it seems, there's always something to learn. And every new skill or technique learned or acquired is something you can use to consider your approach for a harder project. Sorry if this was too long, but it's just something I learned after a while that I felt like sharing. Good luck dude.

@636DavidT 3 месяца назад

How and where can I go get an internship lol I’m doing a bootcamp right now and I’m trying to look for internships 😢😢

@RocketRift 3 месяца назад

ok but what skills do i need

@chillhomie7 3 месяца назад

just applied for university of waterloo CS, wish me luck guys.

@tutohowto5345 3 месяца назад

hey, how'd it go?

@PepeRMSA 3 месяца назад

You got to love how RU-vid is trying to push us to buying premium

@quincypitsi8256 3 месяца назад

Intern at apple paying as much as some senior positions at other companies

@mihir5381 3 месяца назад

where did they go to school

@sammyiboi 4 месяца назад

Did you take down the Codecademy link from the description? :(

@sammyiboi 4 месяца назад

Nvm, found it!

@SweepAndZone 3 месяца назад

Good job debugging 🙏

@kingchamp0076 4 месяца назад

Muchh Needed💜

@namanhkapur 4 месяца назад

beast

@videosformridul 2 месяца назад

Good

@Harish-rz4gv 3 месяца назад

You are kind of looking like ThePrimeagen

@ServantOfLordKrishna. 3 месяца назад

Indians contribute a lot to IT industries

@namanhkapur 3 месяца назад

we are the 🐐

@streetchronicles5693 3 месяца назад

5:55 for title

@arjitshrivastava5017 2 месяца назад

Why u have music in background its very distracting

@iskhak20 3 месяца назад

dear friend, I advise you to process your audio track. Like 4 video:)

@mchi6621 8 дней назад

Apple guy coulda retired with Nvidia even with 2 yrs.. rip

@venkatasivavarmasirivuri231 4 месяца назад

Apple one looks like South Indian.

@arpanmandal7244 3 месяца назад

Majority of them are indian

@surojsarkar6054 3 месяца назад

He can be any part of India expect northeast( exclude Assam) and Kashmir

@Ishan555 3 месяца назад

That apple engineer 🥵🥵🥵

@vikastiwari6780 3 месяца назад

Hume advice nhi chahiye Hume 1% me nhi jana

@CheeseStickzZ 3 месяца назад

Virgins for life y'all, let gooo

@cesargladiador6334 3 месяца назад

construct criticism, I don't like that in every questions you are changing persons. I kind of like the theme of the videos, but the constant changing make dizzy because I cannot concentrate in one single person. This happens to a lot of your videos and make me quit the video.

@namanhkapur 3 месяца назад

would you rather one person respond to all the questions and then switch to another person?

@trumpisgod2535 3 месяца назад

@@namanhkapurthis guy doesn’t want a real solution he just enjoys complaining.

@cesargladiador6334 3 месяца назад

yes!! 100%, or do a survey. Because maybe I'm the only one that likes one person to respond all the questions.@@namanhkapur

@LifeUnion 3 месяца назад

I agree!!

@cesargladiador6334 3 месяца назад

yes!! or do a survey. Because maybe I am the only one that likes a person to respond all the questions.@@namanhkapur

@TuxBearlux 3 месяца назад

A.I and OutSourced coming soon 🤫

@streetchronicles5693 3 месяца назад

half way through the video and its pure trash information...

@vmidhunreddy7150 2 месяца назад

that apple guy is handsome as hell.. can we have his insta id

@guntherzecena 4 месяца назад

The Apple engineer is insanely hot. I could watch him talk for hours haha

@noormubin199 4 месяца назад

First

@namanhkapur 4 месяца назад

let's gooooooo

@stevesutton772 4 месяца назад

Please don't poop in our rivers tho

@july9566 3 месяца назад

Omg I was thinking the same lol

@davedavedave4 4 месяца назад

You should have included more diversity, like black ppl as well.

@akialter 4 месяца назад

Huh?

@davedavedave4 4 месяца назад

@@akialter he racist, i am black and i got offended

@akialter 4 месяца назад

@@davedavedave4 idk, I feel like it's weird for him to specifically target a specific group for interview

@retishe7660 3 месяца назад

@@davedavedave4 No he simply picked at random nothing racist , even whites are under-represented, i work at big tech and there are a lot of Nigerians i have meet . Trust me am black too and skin colour doesnt really matter even whites struggle as much as we blacks to land a job just focus on refining ur skills if u work at big tech then everyone will respect u regardless of ur race trust me .

@davedavedave4 3 месяца назад

@@akialter he should interview every race, its because of him blacks are under represented