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This is super concise and useful! Thank you for taking the time.

Less than a 10% chance for this young folks. 😬

labor is cheap, it's a good time to start a software business “The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets”

If you are at entry level you need to think outside of the box. Not everybody can work at Meta, Google, OpenAI or Tesla. But likewise not everybody that could use a Software Engineer is at those view gigantic US companies. So you could look abroad, or you need to look outside your industry. Automotive, Aerospace, Medical, Agriculture, Chip Vendors, Banks, Infrastruktur those companies do have software problems too. Usually they want a engineer of their field with additional software skills. But having over the top software skills and the drive to learn other disciplines on the way is also an option.

This is the state of the market right now. Coding has an increasingly low barrier to entry. People treat it like a science but it’s really more like a trade. School is necessary in some ways, but in other ways it’s kind of a red herring that inflates your expectations. I was very lucky because I didn’t go to school for CS. I just got a basic IT degree and randomly started coding at work. Now I’m basically the official “coder” for our little company. I actually migrated us to a new CRM and have automated a lot of things. I get crap pay because I have no degree, but simply being immersed in this world has opened up opportunities that will likely lead to a career pivot in the near future to an actual serious salary. CS is almost like an art. You have to prove you’re good and get random connections and people that can appreciate your work. Doesn’t really matter what your credentials are, if you have proven results, then you will rise above the resume spammers. Obviously if you’re insanely decorated with degrees and shit then you’ll find work, but for the rest of you code monkeys, don’t give up. If you love to code, then fucking code. Figure out problems wherever you are in life and think about how to can solve them with code, then actually go out and do it. If that’s not your mindset then gtfo.

Australian here. full stack SWE with 9 years experience; Was working at Australia's largest software company and last week I got news that I failed my half-yearly performance evaluation. The entire half year cycle I got feedback indicating that my performance was good, then out of nowhere I am given the ultimatum "quit or try to keep your job via an 8 week performance improvement plan" (the PIP is a government legislated employee protection requirement, I'm not sure it's offered in earnest by the company). While trying to make up my mind, I've taken 3 weeks leave to delay the job loss and have been hitting the job market. It has been beyond dire. No interviews, several rejections - one for not having enough experience (apparently I didn't make the 10 - 15 years requirement). I've downgraded my salary expectations to between 110k - 130k AUD (75k - 90k USD) but still no bites. The thing is, if I'm offering a salary that low, I can't imagine what it's like for Jrs/mid level engineers right now. It has been absolutely devastating to my mental health. I can't believe what I'm seeing and have no idea what the future holds. I'm thinking of exiting the industry and going back to university. Or maybe moving into a van and seeing what happens to the jobs market over the next year. Maybe a relaxation of interest rates will help bring back the tech jobs and we just have to wait for that? Or maybe this is the new normal? I'm privileged to have had a decent job for this long but I'm honestly so sick of how many crises and "new normals" I have had to endure.

90% of viewers are always beginners

Awesome refresher very much appreciated!!! This is the best I’ve ever heard it explained!

I agree with a lot of your views OG you not lying I’m real careful on what I’m going to let be publicly seen in my public repo👀

Thanks for the knowledge OG🫡 I didn’t know you had courses gonna have to check you out I love learning lower level stuff You don’t have to be anxious because we can tell you have a lot of knowledge so a real man will always respect it🫡

do more of these please!

Thanks for sharing 🦾

I am really sad to hear this. I hope things work out for you soon.

Not that this is realistic model for the majority, but does this still effect solo developers?

Why now and why not during the GFC ? some of the idea and concepts still apply to that time of economic crash, some of the things that differ is the state of Ai ...

Also check your hostname, HELO and rDNS.

I got a part time job 2 years ago working at a small business office supplies store that catered mostly to other small business's printing needs (business cards, wide format, docs, etc). And noticed a lot of them had very poor websites, with little to no ranking on google, colours/font sizes that made the site ugly/unreadable, and information that was out of date. I ended up making contacts with a few of them and improved or completely redid their websites. A great way to get work experience and contacts with very little risk. Worst case scenario, they don't like your website -- just revert to what they had. Sure coming to a job interview for a big company with "I built a few small business websites" doesn't sound like much, but you end up picking up a lot of relevant skills like dealing with clients/business requirements, meeting deadlines -- and having professional work on your portfolio.

Awesome! That was just what I was looking for. Thanks bro!

It’s so depressing because I didn’t go to college after high school. My parents didn’t have money and didn’t want to support me as well as me not exactly knowing what I wanted to do with my life but I knew I loved computers. Enter 2018 I was so fed up with warehouse jobs and not making decent money so I started looking at my local community and saw some degrees that started with “computer” and when I saw the word programming it brought me back when I made websites for my graphic design class. Man I was so excited and my mom was so happy one of her kids finally decided to go to college lol then COVID hit and I didn’t graduate until 2021. So I basically ended up wasting my time and money and it’s something I constantly think about. I no longer have hope and willing to settle with any office job.

vote for Harris? if she win, you would't allow to get on internet, never mind to find work again

im just gonna go be an indie app dev sheesh

Might be able to get a deal with the mortgage lender while working to sell the house (i hope there is equity) and then renting

You have a ponytail obviously you got the job! Growing mine now.

Holy shit, misinform a whole country with something that they come to rely on. Pretty obvious honestly, now that youve shown me. I didn’t even think about that. I always did like local models better though.

I’m going through all of your videos, bro. I’ve already started liking them. I’m watching all of some of the videos obviously I cannot watch every single video all the way through, but I am watching the ones that I find interesting sometimes multiple times in an attempt to help you out with the algorithm.

The world will be open source if enough inspired individuals build on these open source models this decade

Unbelievable man, I couldn’t even begin to understand your situation that is morbid. What I can do for you those at least like all your videos. I really hope these get out there to people for their sake and possibly your channels sake.

Straight to the point thank you.

Hey, I've dug around on your channel a little bit so sorry if I missed it, but could you make a video on the 3 email verification/security steps you took & how to do that? I'm looking for a new position and been trying to figure out how to avoid scam recruiters. Doing what you mentioned seems like a good precaution.

Its funny. During my CS undergrad I did have some worn experience in university while doin music production semi-professionally for all kinds of indie game projects. Thats because it kept my mentality in check and I knew that down the road I'll get a CS job somewhere with ease. The offers for composing music I got are more than CS offers (actively searching).

half cooked or rare?

here in japan you can get in as a junior software developer with 0 experience and 0 school no rejections, they are desperate AF. its going to be a low paying shit job, but you can get in, turns out if you stop trying to apply to every FAANG job on the planet, there are plenty of software engineering jobs.

Would you classify people who have only done open source software as no experience? The only callback I have got so far said it doesn't count for anything. I've been doing OSS for about a decade now and have worked on a pretty infamous program in its early days but now I have come the realization that it was all for nothing. Im just as "bad" as a newgrad with no experience.

99% of my projects are in C. See no reason to ever use rust.

The only strategies as a junior are to prove that most SDE 2s are bad at their jobs, and learn how to outflank them. Or go directly to SDE 3 at your own company...FeelsBadMan

That's crazy. Have you talked to a lawyer? It sounds like they know they did something illegal if they're trying to CTA by getting you to sign agreements.

Great video bro! If you need someone else to work on something with let me know! Recently got laid off from the startup I was working at so come into a lot of free time unfortunately lol

i hope people get out of the industry, leave it to the people who truly enjoy it.

this is the gold i was looking for i found diamond i always held the belief that i must learn development cs fundamentals and basic it stuff other professionals ridiculed me

hope you're doing well mate, 10,000 curses towards those bastards who scammed you

I’d rather have no payroll taxes, no income taxes, just sales tax, tariffs, and make outsourcing only possible when there is no domestic talent to meet the need instead of a cheaper substitute.

This didn’t take effect until after he left office and remains in effect and unspoken of - which makes me think this is a uniparty supported policy.