To apply to have me be your mentor go here: forms.gle/dmBrSNkTujViRvmJA This video references another mentorship video that will be published in the coming weeks.
I truly appreciate the amazing content your putting in your channel and i thought about what you said... I just wanted to ask you a question and I feel what I am looking for is actually a confirmation rather than an answer but still I don't know... The question is... as a junior software engineer I feel like I hit a plateau at the place I am working at and don't know how to progress forward this early in my career in term of skills... I wanted to know what would've been your advice if you were in my place knowing that currently a job switch is actually hard to do? What should I do or get involved at in order to grow my knowledge and skills? Btw I am aspiring to become a generalist software engineer even though my current job is only focused on JavaScript tech stack without real adoption of software engineering best practices from testing, design patterns,... I feel that I am stuck and don't know how to change myself or to contribute more to the company I work at... Sorry for the long comment... I sincerely thank you for reading this and truly looking forward to your response.
@@ych3455 As with any time in your career as a software engineer if you feel that you are not growing and your current employer does not offer that it's time to go somewhere else. This is generic advice without more context. Have you truly exhausted all the options at the place where you are at? Can you create opportunities for growth with your own initiative? If all avenues fall on death ears, you do just want to find a new job and workplace that'll better support you on your learning path.
What you're doing with this channel is amazing! I think you're about the only channel that actually gives sound advice and mentioning to more senior engineers. Looking forward to seeing your mentoring sessions, they'll be invaluable learning tools!
@a life engineered, hats off - I'm speechless that you're offering this. I think people who never worked at Amazon before are not realizing what you're offering. When I was at Amazon as an L6 I wished I had gotten such an offer and time from "my" L7... And I'm also speechless that you have time for this besides your L7 job which is not a piece of cake at all.
Hey and thanks for the great content :) Another Principal Engineer here! I presume you are pretty busy, but I would love to pick your brain on the IC path at some point. I know you already closed off the registration for mentorship, but perhaps you'll have time in the future.
Love the "this just means you don't follow directions well" ending. I'm not at a point in my career to be mentored by someone of your caliber but knowing someone at your level is willing to mentor others does instill hope! Best wishes in finding a worthy mentee!
My last mentor was really shitty with me, she never share feedback with me and never had time to see my work.... she even jump me and assign work to everyone in the team, except me, she was principal in my former team. This feels really awful to me and cost my position, I was mentor two and my mentored people really growth in they careers and focus the work that they do. How is possible to find a good mentor?
This is game changing, think patreon but for knowledge. Thank you for doing this. I don't think I will ever apply, since I do value my privacy a lot and am also currently employed by 3 different companies as a SWE, but I will be closely following along and seeing what advice you'll be giving to others in similar shoes as me!
It looks like the google form is closed, is it too late to submit? I'm building my SaaS in public on my youtube channel, I would love to participate, Thanks!
Thanks for this. I needed the definition of behaviour vs skills. I spent such a long time developing my goals because my development opportunities were too many and I was having a hard time prioritizing. I now think getting a coach might be the best way for me to grow at this point in my career
I'm sorry but the jumpiness of your videos is very jarring and distracting. I think I'm going to have to minimize the window and just listen. It's not good man. Mostly the little zoom ins and zoom outs, but the little jump cuts aren't great either.
I, OTOH, found them just good enough. They caught my attention and quickly made me think and try to notice how it was being done but I didn't miss a thing from the content.
@@j-janz Challenge for you then: link a popular video that is similar to this, with the jumpy editing. (I assume he's using some kind of video filter that's cutting out frames where the audio level is 0, but because it's also zooming at the same time, the zooms are jumpy)
@@marred2277 Thanks but I'll pass on the challenge. I don't need to see something broadly used to know if it works for me. I can tell, I use Linux (and not just for work but on all my computers). ;) And, yes, it seems exactly like there're some frame drops, though for a small zoom range, which appears to be where the jumpy feel comes from. But, again, they didn't bother me. The other way around, it got me into noticing he's advancing and exploring into editing, which engaged me. I could easily assume the effect as being time bound, which might drop frames to achieve it. Even if, perhaps, not the greatest implementation, also (again, for me) far from enough to render this much commenting about it. 😅
I wish I had seen this before you chose mentees! Alas. Ah well, I can take this as an opportunity to reflect and look out for opportunities to seek mentorship from a L3/L4/senior engineer mentor
Since I am just an SDE-2 therefore I reject myself from being your mentee yet. 😐 On a bright side I know how to look for someone who is just a little bit senior than me, thanks! 🙏
Hi Steve, always appreciate all your wisdom from years of industry experience!! Also very random thought, but has anyone told you that you look similar to Professor Percy Liang from Stanford? Always thought you looked familiar and I was able to make the connection just today lol
Thank you for clarifying the difference between coaching, sponsoring, and mentoring. Many out there conflate the three in different ways that end up doing more harm than good because people aren't getting what they actually need. Good shit!!!!
I haven’t found any of your videos that mention this: what resources would your recommend for learning and reviewing Data Structures and Algorithm’s for coding interview in your early career? You have mentioned that there are videos on RU-vid which explain how to do specific LeetCode problems. Is there a more broad resource that teaches your the patterns that you’d recommended?
He has a video where he discusses how to divide up your time on prep depending on the level your applying for and there he also mentions some resources around DSA
@@onkelTom101 I'm not sure if the video you're referring to mentions how to learn DSA, I think the video emphasizes that you shouldn't just focus on DSA for senior software roles. What resources or courses would you recommend for more junior software engineers, who are still in the first two years of college? What DSA concepts have you found most applicable to on the job technical challenges? ------------ Here were the resources mentioned in a past video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0Z9RW_hhUT4.html SYSTEM DESIGN Designing Data-Intensive Applications geni.us/DataIntensive Currently the best reference contemporary for system design. System Design Interview (Volume 2) geni.us/SystemDesignIntervie and geni.us/SystemDesignInterview - For interviews, the best references are System Design Interview and System Design Interview Volume 2 by Alex Xu. 💻
I would greatly appreciate getting coaching from you. I could really use it to get some solid direction in my career. I have some self-awareness of the position I'm in but I'm so near the start line a mentor might not be enough. I'm trying to transition from support to dev work.
Hey cousin Steve, mom said to ask you... Carla Harris breaks up the role of mentor and advisor and I'm curious how you square that? She terms advisors help you with specific tactical things like how does database locking work while a mentor would point out blindspots or even things outside of work like how you might be studying too many different topics and can wind up burning out. It seems you would put some of this work under coaching but I feel coaching is more on a fixed area you define and for a limited time, such as needing coaching for giving good code review. The problem I've noticed is that people offer to provide mentoring but they are just providing tactical advice and I think they could better understand what type of relationship/help they are trying to provide.
looking forward to this series! Hopefully you mentor person/group of people who represent the biggest percent of your audience so that you could help the most people.
And one feedback perhaps I could give to this video is to zoom in and out the image less in your videos. If used too much I feel I get a bit dizzy and annoyed. Didn't want to write about this in the beginning but saw others having similar feedback so I thought perhaps it is good to mention it to you as well :) Goot content there for sure.
