How I got promoted at Google in one year (from soy to chad)

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @Savitar_RL
    @Savitar_RL 10 месяцев назад +310

    "I'M NEETCODE GODDAMMIT"
    Mega chad

    • @NeetCodeIO
      @NeetCodeIO  10 месяцев назад +38

      🦍

    • @no3lcodes
      @no3lcodes 10 месяцев назад +1

      same thing I thought.

  • @NeetCodeIO
    @NeetCodeIO  10 месяцев назад +167

    Sorry, I guess by definition this *is* a humble brag, but I still thought it was worth sharing.
    I mean, how else am I gonna remind you guys that I use to work at Google?

    • @ELMlKO
      @ELMlKO 10 месяцев назад

      true

    • @mediaconsumption3972
      @mediaconsumption3972 10 месяцев назад +5

      It's fine. Most of the life story clips are gonna be humble brags, that's why we're here

    • @RaphaelOkai
      @RaphaelOkai 10 месяцев назад

      Love it

    • @lolnoob5015
      @lolnoob5015 10 месяцев назад +2

      Humble brag or not this was helpful. Working at Google and looking to get promoted this year

  • @ngneerin
    @ngneerin 10 месяцев назад +272

    Rule 1. Never forget to mention Google
    Rule 2. Never forget Rule 1

    • @zerodev6691
      @zerodev6691 10 месяцев назад +16

      it works tho, channel was pretty unknown until google was mentioned

    • @justcurious1940
      @justcurious1940 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yes,but he wasn't completely positive about it.

  • @AjayKumar-gq6zi
    @AjayKumar-gq6zi 10 месяцев назад +103

    Smile fades away from junior to midlevel

  • @ELMlKO
    @ELMlKO 10 месяцев назад +52

    babe wake up
    it's a new neetcode story time

  • @nehushtant
    @nehushtant 10 месяцев назад +14

    You’re really relatable, which is why I watch your videos. Right on

  • @quocanhhbui8271
    @quocanhhbui8271 10 месяцев назад +6

    I really appreciate your honesty. Some people just completely ignore the luck factor. I believe in today’s it plays a huge part.

  • @DavidT_510
    @DavidT_510 10 месяцев назад +16

    Crazy that a junior engineer was able to complete a legacy service migration with an independence. When I look back to my first job out of college, I didnt know what an API was, what a microservice was, what a monolith was, I didn't even know how to use GIT. None of those things are taught in school and leetcode didn't either.

    • @dy0mber847
      @dy0mber847 10 месяцев назад

      Where are u from?

    • @skyhappy
      @skyhappy 10 месяцев назад

      Which uni and how long ago

    • @tonghongchen4289
      @tonghongchen4289 10 месяцев назад +3

      TBH that doesn’t sound right even for a junior

    • @marcotroster8247
      @marcotroster8247 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@tonghongchen4289Why though? I think the task is exactly right for a beginner because you've got the legacy service as a backup to keep along if things go wrong. So it isn't too bad in case the migration project goes to waste. Plus you basically have a working blueprint to copy the logic from. It's kind of a typical junior task tbh.

    • @jl_117
      @jl_117 2 месяца назад

      same. the fact that college goes through difficult CS concepts but barely touch the most basic things in development is an embarrassment

  • @69k_gold
    @69k_gold 10 месяцев назад +9

    One thing I learned from working in tech: Reflection addiction
    Doing stuff gave me feedback, it was my job to interpret as much of that as I could, and reflect on it

  • @CB-td4ck
    @CB-td4ck 10 месяцев назад +1

    I loved this. As someone in my first year as a swa this is great for me.

  • @williamseipp9691
    @williamseipp9691 Месяц назад +1

    not luck. You went out of your comfort zone, maintained composure in a stressful situation and you were proactive ( knowing ahead of time how to view the latency of the microservice )
    opportunities fall upon everyone. Perhaps unequally but the point is to be prepared for when they arise.

  • @djmears4584
    @djmears4584 10 месяцев назад

    Man, I'm proud of this random dude. That was some good insight, thank you!

  • @dataai514
    @dataai514 3 месяца назад

    You showed your ability of critical thinking and problem solving. Comparing latency of your new system vs old one made perfect sense.

  • @LesserScholar
    @LesserScholar 10 месяцев назад +6

    Nice breakdown. I can tell about my Google experience: Joined as junior. Team is pretty competent but stuck running extremely fragile system in prod (fires everywhere, touching stuff is scary, infra keep getting deprecated forcing lot of migrations). First project is a manager's pet project that was never feasible, I have nothing to show after 6months. Manager quits after 9 months. I still don't have a project and now under a new manager, I'm stuck doing tedious cleanup that nobody wants to do for another 6 months. 16 months and I have nothing to put towards promo. Finally get assigned to a 2 person project with L6, but I'm able to contribute pretty much equally. 26 months in my Google career, the project is pretty much done (and good quality) but it's not launching because of politics. I still haven't launched anything and quit b/c I'm a little depressed and feel that promo is impossible.

  • @shayestaparveen315
    @shayestaparveen315 10 месяцев назад

    Great story! Thank you for sharing this!

  • @aben62
    @aben62 10 месяцев назад

    As a new member, the balance of what question to ask and to not ask is the no.1 challenge throughout my career

  • @savannahlin8063
    @savannahlin8063 10 месяцев назад +1

    Well said. I am neetcode. God damn. Oftentimes, I said the same things to myself.

  • @nexusboyko
    @nexusboyko 10 месяцев назад +4

    "I was actually able to deliver that project, by the grace of God." 😁

  • @mattjm007
    @mattjm007 10 месяцев назад

    Great video - Thanks for sharing

  • @yassine-sa
    @yassine-sa 10 месяцев назад +2

    Sometimes( a lot of times actually) will is as important as technical skills

  • @baetz2
    @baetz2 10 месяцев назад

    Cool story! I was expecting that you'd be extinguishing all kinds of alerts and weird bugs for the following weeks, rolling back and rerolling infinite times. Neet job making it work from the first try!

  • @marcotroster8247
    @marcotroster8247 4 месяца назад +1

    Tbh, this is a typical junior project. You have a working legacy system as backup in case the migration goes to waste. Plus you have a working blueprint to copy stuff from. You basically just need to copy an existing service of the new tech stack and migrate the logic into it. A capable junior with potential should be able to dig into the problems and grow.

  • @ishansheth3005
    @ishansheth3005 10 месяцев назад

    great story!! Keep it up!!

  • @Poopooman690
    @Poopooman690 10 месяцев назад

    He's that guy. Goat

  • @electricindro2236
    @electricindro2236 10 месяцев назад

    Nice insight 👍🏻

  • @TomKersten-y1u
    @TomKersten-y1u 10 месяцев назад

    Good that you acknowledge your luck.

  • @PickNick50
    @PickNick50 10 месяцев назад +5

    First Comment
    Always wanted to do this 😂

  • @one_step_sideways
    @one_step_sideways 10 месяцев назад

    9:37 for TL;DW

  • @sharan10salian
    @sharan10salian 10 месяцев назад +1

    What is your work setup? chair, table & mic etc

  • @kompila
    @kompila 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks fam!
    Going through same shit and I want to quit.
    Not giving up anymore ... :-)

  • @s8x.
    @s8x. 8 месяцев назад

    did u do a lot of googling and copying and pasting and searching stack overflow?

  • @Whizyrel
    @Whizyrel 10 месяцев назад +2

    What does design doc at Google look like?

  • @fauzansaliim
    @fauzansaliim Месяц назад

    wow really like the story

  • @Joshuahendrix
    @Joshuahendrix 10 месяцев назад

    Awesome, love a good neetcode story, thanks for sharing

  • @hottroddinn
    @hottroddinn 10 месяцев назад

    Do you have plans to go back working in a corporate setting?

  • @slimmoses3376
    @slimmoses3376 5 месяцев назад

    You're a great speaker. How did you learn to do this?
    I'm interviewing now and this sounds like a perfect story to share during an interview.

    • @தமிழோன்
      @தமிழோன் 4 месяца назад

      I wondered the same thing. I think it's achievable with enough practise and, as he said, "will" to tell a perfect story in behavioural interviews.

  • @tomasb3191
    @tomasb3191 10 месяцев назад +1

    the fact that you only where doing leetcode for a year is so crazy to me

    • @NeetCodeIO
      @NeetCodeIO  10 месяцев назад +3

      it explains a lot about whats wrong w me

  • @lethality3704
    @lethality3704 10 месяцев назад

    Grace of god indeed!

  • @ammaraliSAT-ACT-IB
    @ammaraliSAT-ACT-IB 10 месяцев назад

    Any advice for someone whose degree taught them R, works as a database engineer using SQL Python and Java (Talend) for ETL, trying to get into full stack development/systems?

  • @abhishekrbhat8919
    @abhishekrbhat8919 10 месяцев назад +1

    Hey! I was plannning to make my own Load Balancer as a project. Could you provide me with some guidance. I'm Appplying for SDE-1 jobs and felt like this would be a nice project

  • @ennisstephen
    @ennisstephen 10 месяцев назад

    What tool is he using to draw on the screen?

  • @falconheavy595
    @falconheavy595 10 месяцев назад

    Can someone please what tool he is using for the sketching

  • @bomcimtube
    @bomcimtube 10 месяцев назад +1

    You are very talented. Why dont you use your software skills on solving humanity s most important problems such as energy, food, water and diseases?

    • @NeetCodeIO
      @NeetCodeIO  10 месяцев назад +16

      Good point. But if I can teach CS concepts to 10 people, maybe those 10 people will go on to solve those problems. I feel in this position I can be a positive multiplier.

    • @RaphaelOkai
      @RaphaelOkai 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@NeetCodeIOGood one ❤

    • @tonghongchen4289
      @tonghongchen4289 10 месяцев назад

      My friend joined Tesla Energy as a SWE last year, switching from data analyst to SWE by following this channel. Totally agree with the positive multiples

  • @justcurious1940
    @justcurious1940 10 месяцев назад

    Cool story, Do a honest roadmap story without adds for self-taught developers.

  • @sanskarkaazi3830
    @sanskarkaazi3830 10 месяцев назад

    Got promoted and then left Google.
    Ultra Ultra Chad.

  • @goedeck1
    @goedeck1 10 месяцев назад +1

    If you have the will, how can you possibly fail?

  • @hamzakhiar3636
    @hamzakhiar3636 10 месяцев назад

    What does he use for board drawing

  • @trh786fed
    @trh786fed 10 месяцев назад +1

    Is that guy is Techlead ?

  • @arsenidziamidchyk2972
    @arsenidziamidchyk2972 10 месяцев назад +1

    Jr dev: afraid to ask questions
    Manager: you're so independent

  • @s8x.
    @s8x. 8 месяцев назад

    so when is it good to ask for help and when not to?? what about those times u don’t ask for help and cant do it independently?

    • @தமிழோன்
      @தமிழோன் 4 месяца назад

      If you think you are progressing with your task today compared to yesterday, then you're in a good position to explain why the task you're assigned to is taking time to the tech lead / manager. If not, there's no point in keeping it to yourself. Alert the team in the stand up meeting and try to resolve the issue with a mob programming session.
      Don't hesitate asking for help. Even seniors get stuck. Most companies encourage asking for help when you feel like you're stuck. I'm not sure if a company that discourages seeking help is a good company to stay. It's a sign to leave.

  • @giridharanselvaraju3159
    @giridharanselvaraju3159 9 месяцев назад

    They had blocking code at Google? Seriously? At Google?

  • @sumitsharma6738
    @sumitsharma6738 10 месяцев назад

    But there's also a guy who back up as you said in the video

  • @xluats
    @xluats 10 месяцев назад

    based

  • @slayerzerg
    @slayerzerg 10 месяцев назад

    you got promoted in a year then left after a few months?

    • @NeetCodeIO
      @NeetCodeIO  10 месяцев назад

      yeah its more common than you might think to leave after promo

  • @AK-vx4dy
    @AK-vx4dy 2 месяца назад

    It's glasses. Men always look smarter in glasses 😜

  • @xendu-d9v
    @xendu-d9v 27 дней назад

    indian roots visible