I WASN'T READY TO WORK AT FAANG (as a Google Software Engineer)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Hey folks, just wanted to share with you about how I felt unprepared to work coming into Google and Amazon. And I wanted to tell you that YOU AREN'T READY EITHER!!! (but it's OKAY). Hope you all enjoy and have a happy halloween!!!
The skill of being able to solve vague problems is the ultimate skill
true that.
Great comparison of Big Tech and high school bathroom fights !! very relatable
thanks! im glad. i always try to empathize with my audience and today bathroom fights felts like the right thing to talk about :)
Yo same. Public school is wild.
Should have gone for dentistry bro
Nice bathroom analogy, I loved it, learnt a lot, 10/10. Love your videos
thanks i always try to make content digestible so idiots like myself can truly understand.
BROOO! My amazon contract experience was the exact same lol Dealt with CI/CD and bs internal campaigns that required updating dependencies. So much work and effort that doesn't amount to any new skills only sucking your soul dry
I work at an insurance company and using any internal tool is a total nightmare. Usually starts with asking around to find the one guy that actually knows how it works and how to get access to it. Then you gotta deal with BS security processes that usually involves like 20 emails and contacting some obscure team that you don’t know what they even do except that you were told they can help you. And during all of this, literally scouring the internal docs for bits and pieces of relevant info. Fuuuck
I used to work in cybersecurity. Being suspicious of everything and gatekeeping/lecturing everyone wore me out and changed me as a person. Some organisations are finally realising that security is to be an enabler and a support function in doing things securely, not just denying you from doing it in the first place.
I totally get where you're coming from.
That's really something to consider in this career. Some people say that as long as you "keep learning" you'll be fine but that's not really the case, since employers care about relevant professional experience. I've had interviewers get really snappy with me when I told them I could do XYZ because I'd learned it on my own. Apparently self-learning doesn't count for 💩. It's stupid and self-defeating, especially considering how companies are supposedly desperate for "talent" (as if we're strippers or lingerie models) but that's just how it is. Don't be tripping, keep on skipping 🙃
There isn't a demand for talent. There's a demand for TOP talent.
@@jayrollo1352 I would say the demand for CHEAP talent. If it happens to be also top, it's even better.
@@rustix3 True that too.
@@jayrollo1352 TOP talent as defined by incredibly arbitrary bureaucratic criteria
@@sisyphus_strives5463 Not always. That's why we have pip.
Btw AWS is moving most stuff to publicly available services even internally. It is a slow process but it's happening
Starting my first day at Amazon as an SDE tomorrow. There is a lot of company specific technology, but at least some of it is publicly available, which increases the likelihood of finding solutions to the problems you face.
how it went?
Your insigts are so interesting. Love your videos, as always. Stay strong!
glad you find my videos helpful! thanks :)
Lol apparently there's a whole squad trying to hunt down Boyalgo in MTV. Not sure if you saw the drawings on the white boards lol.
wdym mtv?
holy shit should i be scared LOL
Yes, Albertsons campus is so beautiful!!! 🤣😅 Happy Halloween boyalgo! :) Love your videos as always!!
You're the funniest. I love you bro.
Came for tech news, going back with toilet anacdotes !!
Same here. I'm not overwhelmed, just disappointed it is not as fun or intuitive as building things without all these esoteric obscure dependencies that you know nothing about and won't use elsewhere.
You are learning the valuable skill of learn proprietary software fast.
This is not specific to big tech. You have the same learning curve in any company that has an existing code base that you need work on. You're lucky if it's not COBOL.
wow congrats to 10k
yei we're now 10k 💪
congrats man ✨
I don't know if anybody realised but the Albertsons logo kinda looks like the Aldi one.
Thank you for your advice on FAANG
Happy Halloween boyalgo
happy halloween friend :)
It's not about knowing languages, it's about understanding your problem domain and being able to use these languages effectively to solve problems.
If you apply to a game development studio, it's not that important if you can rebalance an unsorted 43-level RedPinkGreen Tree in O(-n) time while unconscious and standing on your head. But can you model the movement of lava on a slope, or what about the astrophysics for that spacesim you're working on?
My man boyalgo. Happy Halloween 🎃
happy halloween!
Woah 10k subscribers and 1 million total views. I remember when you were at 500 subscribers just over a couple of months ago. Boyalgo soon to be fulltime boyoutuber.
Is SDE the only well paying job in tech? Asking because I'd like to work in tech companies but maybe as a BI engineer or a Data scientist
nope other positions in tech also pay very well you just wont earn the 300k+ salaries at faang, more like 200-250k but thats still top 3 percent of incomes in the US
Ah those famous Albertsons campuses located in Jewel Osco.
You know algorithms real well huh?
Can u make a video on your Google interview process, specially team matching process in Google?
I have heard that even if you cleared all the interviews but if you don't get team matched they don't offer a job.
i dont know what the fuck i'm doing with my life or what my purpose is.
It's not too late my guy. 3 stages of change: 1)realizing what state you are in 2) making plans 3)taking action. Goodluck bro
Same but we still both still gotta get up everyday. So why not make our days count :). Take some time to explore and find out what matters to you!
Thank you both of you, I was fighting demons last week. Feeling better now, thanks for the encouraging words.
You think I got a chance at working at Tom Thumb? I heard that Albertsons owns it…
happy halloween boy al goooooooooooooooo
hi :) happy halloween
hey boyalgo - did you have any experience in programming before going to college?
The bathroom story 💀
prayers for urinal boy
Boiiiiiiiiii Algoooooooo OP in chat
Do you have time to play videogames and would you?
You really seem to have unrealistic expectations of the workplace. Companies hire SDEs - guess what - so they can advance their business goals and they need SDEs to help them get there. If the work or the tools or the culture is not the exact match for what you'd like to see in some idealized vision of the workplace then of course you're free to leave at any time. But shocker - no job is ever going to be unicorns prancing around farting out skittles. If you think only those jobs are worthy of your time and effort things are never going to go well for you. Said a bit differently - put on your big boy pants bro.
Hey homie try watching the whole video :)
I 100% agree with you. Companies NEED to have custom tools and their own culture to fit that company’s specific function.
No job is ever going to be perfect for anyone of course. The point of the video is to say that there are IMPORTANT parts of being a Software Engineer that cannot be taught from school/bootcamp/self-taught. And sometimes those parts you need to learn inside are annoying as fuck. Saying that custom technology is annoying isn’t saying that the company is stupid for having those parts because at the end of the day THEY NEED THAT SHIT.
@@boyalgo Fair.
Where is this?
Bad financial results, Layoffs coming?
I am the urinal boy. I should've known something was up when they said they were going to go "bodies".
BRO YOU KNOW. Going bodies in the bathroom was how boys in highschool established the dominance hierarchy.
Are you still working at Google?
I really hope you make a discord!
god damn it i have to... SOOON
What if WITCH is better than FAANG? 🤔🤔🤔
LOL
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1:34 "None of these skills would transfer to any other company" Bro, the line in your resume that you worked in Amazon already a transferrable asset. You can get the first HR call from any top tier tech company way easier that others non-fangers. Imagine me working in a small company build with tools from 2007, where you degrade.
I would like to work for top tier tech, just for the name, so I can have a freedom of applying to any company. And choose the company where I can find transferrable skills.
The skills you are talking about is meaningful AFTER you got the job. Without the skill of getting the job it's also meaningless.
Also the nice thing about USA tech companies they don't expect you to know specific technology they use. It's not like that in Europe, where every even small company expect you to know the framework they use(I am not even talking about programming language), just to apply.
Isn't software engineering/development is about leaning new stuff on the way. I would like to learn the internal tool if the company helps me with it, and don't care about the framework I am using right now.
'Ex-FAANG' is a buzzword at this point. Unless you were there for months/years you can't BS a decent place just because you crashed at a FAANG company day one.
@@NeutralKirby So the line on resume saying that you worked in Amazon as SWE doesn't help with cold applications to other top tech companies? My problem was always to get the initial call and start with interviews. When I get access to interview I do decently(reaching the final round), but couldn't make it better the next interview because I don't get the interviews on a regular basis. It's like once per year on average.
@@rustix3 I mean it's not worthless- if you're a mid-tier SWE at Amazon, you might be a rockstar at smaller places. At that point it's selling what you did so it's not akin to listening every programming language in the universe on your CV.
Wow I'm early
yes you are :)
Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you named, get out of there
hehe 'Big-Tech potty training'
Semi-serious question: [what happens]/[how does Google (and Amazon) respond to] code that was written so horribly only God knows how it's working?
Happy Halloween to you too fam! And although albertsons may have not hired you, you can always retry next time as a more experienced guy (although they are really strict on who they hire)
There are code reviews, so if reviewers cannot understand they will ask you questions or write comments for clarification. There are also a lot of test files, every production level changes requires writing extensive tests to make sure it generates the expected output. In short if no-one can understand it it won't get accepted.
yeah comment above put it beautifully
@@ay5960 well... Shit.
Tech lead wannabe
they kicked you from google?
boyalGHOUL
great line isn't it?