As a Microsoft SWE, advice is to focus on soft skills. Engineering skills are still important, but if you demonstrate a willingness to learn and have strong communication/soft skills. You will be so far ahead of other candidates, even if you end up bombing a leetcode style interview. Teams want someone that they can collaborate with easily and effectively. Passion shines through on interviews, I feel that's why companies will invest in non-traditional graduates like the employee in this video. They have broken out of their traditional background because they have a genuine interest in tech and usually aren't just in it for the paycheck.

@VillageJoker

16 күн бұрын

What would one do to improve these skills @lolgubstep

@mryup6100

14 күн бұрын

Thanks for this, my soft skills need a lot of work 😅

@npc15077

13 күн бұрын

Your advice is garbage.

@WellActualllyyy

12 күн бұрын

bro i have strong soft skills and can’t even land an interview lol

@VillageJoker

12 күн бұрын

@@WellActualllyyy hahahahha keep applying How many years of experience you have?

Seems like these people were lucky with timing, they got into the industry around 2020 or before and don't really understand how difficult it is to even get interviews nowadays. I remember I saw a video where they said if you were to see Google employees resumes from 2020 and compare it to what's required nowadays, they would be automatically disqualified by most hiring managers these days because the bar to entry and expectations has gotten unreasonably more higher now

@ricardodelacrvz1400

4 күн бұрын

Its 90% luck someone the person who has the power to choose likes you. Recruitment is quite terrible nowadays. I sincerely dont know how some people got hired.

@Anon-jz7iw

4 күн бұрын

Def which is why I don’t take these seriously. If you don’t study leetcode right now or barely have any background in cs, you won’t get hired. Before Covid, anyone that can touch a keyboard got hired

@valeriacerpasalas2330

4 күн бұрын

@@Anon-jz7iw Agree 100%, I will start CS at 28yr, because today´s industry is just a bit closed for career switchers, and even more if you come from a career totally different. But as the video mentioned, these people studied and did a lot of self-taught learning.

Damn that senior gave a really good advice. As someone who is now 2 years as SWE his advice were really so valuable and meant for those who just got their job!

In this market, it's the roll of the dice.

This is really great stuff here and very sound advice. Can't wait to sit down in front of a computer all day and do work i love

So, the senior software engineer... my man right there has seen some stuff. You could tell when he responded the management position question.

@namanhkapur

13 күн бұрын

haha all senior engineers have seen the most 😬

@valeriacerpasalas2330

4 күн бұрын

a past mentor who is also a senior software engineer told me that. I understand it is because they want to continue coding and not get a schedule full of project management activities.

My boss who was a manager never really liked management, and just couldn't give up coding, and even when he got promoted to even a higher position, still requested to not strip off his task in coding because he said coding is his life.

I am taking the Meta FrontEnd course. It is a great course. When I will finish it I will do the Fullstack course by university of helsinki to improve my knowledge

@daaimrehman717

4 күн бұрын

Keep going, good job🎉

Been searching for a SE job for 7months now but still got no luck. I've been a SE for a decade now and all I can say is this is the worst job market for tech industry that I've seen since I started my career. Hope I can get a job soon to save my a** and Goodluck to yall SE that facing the same dilemma as me.

Congrats to you all on your success. Well deserved. Hard work pays off.

@namanhkapur

18 күн бұрын

thanks man!

I am a beginner in CS and how I improve my skills please recommend some important things to do with in my work

Being a rockstar coder isn’t enough you gotta have good communication skills and it’s who you know!

Great interviews!

@namanhkapur

18 күн бұрын

thanks for watching :)

Can LinkedIn engineers try their search functionality?

@namanhkapur

13 күн бұрын

☕️

Yeah ..working as a Python Developer I always recommend that you have to be top notch in your communication

Do not disclose anything that the recruiter/hiring manager needs to know. Do not say anything that raises doubt or suspicion from your prior work experiences or previous duties.

how do you find apprenticeships or open source projects to work on?

@KHM013

9 күн бұрын

You can google apprenticeships for various companies. From big tech to mid size companies. Some will have them under their job boards, others might have a separate site specifically for apprenticeships and non-traditional programs.

awesome video!

@namanhkapur

13 күн бұрын

thanks ben!

Hey, I am interested in joining you as a video editor,i am working from last 3 years on various projects as a freelancer

ahmad is so real lol

@namanhkapur

18 күн бұрын

a homie for real

Thank you

my god Ahmed has such nice vibe

Hi @namanh, it's me mammadu, the guy you interviewed Unfortunately my name is spelled incorrectly in this video - you used the typical french spelling 'Mamadou' but my name is spelled 'Mammadu'. Could you correct thisnin the video when you get the chance?

@namanhkapur

16 күн бұрын

yooo thanks for being in the video, sorry about the spelling but there’s no way to change text on a video after it’s published- i’ll make a note in the description!

@Eziopct

13 күн бұрын

Which country are your parents from Mammadou

@mammadudiallo7156

13 күн бұрын

@@Eziopct guinea

@Eziopct

13 күн бұрын

@@mammadudiallo7156 Okay fam, I’m from the Gambia but I live in Sweden! Nice to see a brother in tech

@itoibo4208

4 күн бұрын

Is mammadudiallo your name or just mammadu? Also, how do you say diallo? like "diayo" or "dialo" or some other way?

no one ever mentions codewars

@mando2908

14 күн бұрын

it is super but you know it is Russian of cource they never ever mentioned about it

@basicvince

13 күн бұрын

@@mando2908 ???? Codewars is not Russian

@mando2908

13 күн бұрын

@@basicvince yea I thought Codewars and Codeforce are same a little bit onfused soryy wrong information. But Codeforce is Russian and I am not Russian btw but I recommend the Codeforce too. There are awsome problems over there.

I love the chickens

Know it alls, people who cannot speak to others but super technical to not get hired for good reason. I'm Senior SE and someone who knows how to work in a team and pleasant to work with is better than high iq guy

I miss this kind of videos ❤❤

@namanhkapur

18 күн бұрын

many more coming

@ebrimatouray1765

18 күн бұрын

@@namanhkapur waiting

They all sound like they just got on the hype train in 2021 and 2022 and got in easy, don't seem to know much either other than the senior staff swe. people giving interviews now prob have more skills then them after 2 years there.

Internships are definitely the way to go.

4 күн бұрын

Not trying to be negative but some employers do not consider internships as work experience.... This is what we're dealing with nowadays

Nice video, can you also make a video on Flipkart Grid, they are hiring for 32 lakhs.🤑

@namanhkapur

13 күн бұрын

what’s that

the problem is money. As soon as money gets involved........you are dealing with people and emotions more than anything else. You have to work people. Kiss ass, suck up, lie, steal, cheat. Thats money. It is what it is.

God forbid anything happens🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@walidzein1

9 күн бұрын

He already knows lmao

well well well, notice a pattern ? now yuo see. But what could this mean 🤔

@ege8240

14 күн бұрын

what pattern?

@pastori2672

14 күн бұрын

@@ege8240 they were all hired in ~2021which was the easiest time to get a software engineering role, just implying that its so unfair

@shivster

13 күн бұрын

​@@pastori2672i got hired earlier this year, it's just a matter of luck and timing

Something wrong, you aren’t listening

Sir if you don't mind you should work hard on your thumbnail. If you can't do it mean you have no time I will make for you

its not coding its who sent you

@namanhkapur

13 күн бұрын

it’s not the end result it’s the friends you make along the way

i had been coding since 11 (mostly making games), now studying medical after all these layoffs and ai

Is ahmad open for marriage xD

linkedin has some of the shittiest code on the internet

They are lying to you when they say that they're not scared of AI . I'm going into tech not as a coder but as a network engineer and I can tell you there's a lot to be afraid of when it comes to AI. The real problem comes when these geniuses decide to put AI on a Quantum chip and that day is definitely coming within the next 10 years maybe less.

@pr0adam

15 күн бұрын

cringe fear mongering kinda like this cringey vid

@esp86

15 күн бұрын

AI isn't going to take your jobs. It learns on what it's trained to do. People still need to train them and there still needs to be people to actually create products. AI doesn't have the ability to do that. It doesn't have creativity the way people do. Most of the stuff AI can do right now has been around for a pretty long time it just hasn't been publicly available like it is now. Now people who are just entering the industry or not in it see what AI can do and are terrified. You don't need to be. You need to learn how to utilize it and how it works so you can reverse engineer it and make it better. If you're terrified of AI while in school you're going into the wrong industry.

@ege8240

14 күн бұрын

you are throwing bunch of buzzwords around man. quantum computing thing was abandoned long ago, now investors try to get at least academic returns from it. ai is more likely to get rid of trade jobs than swe

@mrfrantastic1216

12 күн бұрын

They aren't lying when they say they aren't afraid of AI. The devil is in the details. It gets the details wrong a lot. To the point where it's unusable. It will never get the intricate details right. You always need a software engineer to fine tune. In order to fine-tune you need to know what's going on.

@engineergaming9203

12 күн бұрын

Nurotypicals lean on this skill completely unconsciously: It’s called cognitive dissonance, the ability to hold two opposing ideas, not really a bad thing, I imagine they’re some scared of certain aspects of ai, look at the whole picture but don’t actually consciously attach the risk to anything they do for a living, as it impossible to predict the future, even though you probably could predict most large lay offs, if your constantly looking out for it you’d go insane.

Find more women to interview for the girls please 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@irabucc469

14 күн бұрын

In this diversity hiring time, you can't get hired? you must suck so hard lol

@namanhkapur

13 күн бұрын

i try but they reject me

@mchoy9593

13 күн бұрын

@@namanhkapur I'm a girl and I work at LinkedIn!! Shoulda interviewed me 😭

@andrean40

5 күн бұрын

@@mchoy9593 What's the main tech stack?

@purpinkn

4 күн бұрын

@@andrean40 poop

i really don't like this guy

@namanhkapur

12 күн бұрын

who me

@Out5Here

12 күн бұрын

@@namanhkapur he's a f*cking bot bro dont worry

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