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Amazon dodged a bullet there. Imagine all the things he would have dropped
Drop shipping is popular though.
Like pricing for tech.
He can't keep getting away with it!
Bezos may not be a billionaire
@@arakwar Linus drops things more times than the entire shipping industry combined lol
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A person probably didn’t even see your resume Linus. It didn’t make it past the bot that looks for basic requirements since you didn’t have the degree they wanted
Agreed, it’s all bots now especially at big companies
yep, i applied to a job locally that wanted 5 year experience in a tech that was 1 year old at the time. I received an auto denial.
@@adamm2716 please tell me you where the person who invented the tech. Would make it even better
@@bastiannenke7101 hahah that would have been great. Nope im just some loser
He did say that.
I still laugh at "all room watercooling" series
Have they water-cooled a remote or a mouse? I'd watch that
Its going to happen, and you know it
@@nikhilb1502 I can't wait for it XD
Headphone cooling is actually a good idea
I haven't seen that one. LOL Shouldn't suprise me, it is LTT.
Amazon job description: Entry level position as an office intern who makes coffee and picks up donuts a couple times a week. Required skills: full-stack programmer, 6-10 years of management experience, Ivy League post-grad degree,
Ah they aren’t actually that bad
@@funkemunky You're right, you need an Ivy League Post Doc & 2 noble peace prizes.
@VaderxG Possibly the greatest comment ever created.
@VaderxG Amazon would also prefer it if you surgically removed your bladder so you won’t have to go to the bathroom
For 14-15$ HR
did no one spot Linus’ daughter politely sneaked in
that happens quite often these days. :P
Yea, kinda funny. In and out without a trace
at first i thought her hair got caught on the door or something LUL
4:50
left the door open smh
Man I miss Luke in daily LTT vids.
What happened to him
Yeh
@@DenzelHooke He’s running floatplane. Other than WAN Show, he’s not really in videos anymore.
@@Arvulus Which is smart given how unreliable TH-cam can be and how their monetization policies seem to change on the fly. Other TH-camrs have gone and started Nebulae which partners with Curiosity Stream for the same reason.
Saaaame
LinkedIn is huge in the professional (office job) space. Of course it's meaningless to social media jobs.
In the film industry too. I just make a post saying “I’m looking for a job” and somehow within days I’ve got an inbox filled with recruiters
In the tech space Linkedin is amazing, I usually have queue of recruiters contacting me which was a life saver when I wanted to change jobs
No idea what this dude is talking about for twitter. Also, assholes are on twitter.
As someone in working in mortgage operations I can confirm it’s a very hollow Bs esque social space of ‘connections’ where everyone is as shallow and emotionless to be shown for selection to employers like cattle to filter out every individual to their exact specifications, without a degree I wouldn’t have even been invited in the door…
@@funnyberries4017 OMG LinkedIn just doesn't get video/film. I'm a video producer and editor and I'm getting offers for technical writing, product marketing, and copy editing.
I've had 3 interviews with Amazon over the past 4 years. Got close in my last onsite, but there is a very heavy focus on the 14 leadership principles. In 4 hours I only had 10 minutes worth of technical questions. The rest is behavioural stuff. EDIT: For anyone interested it was for the data center positions.
14 leadership principles?
@@maledetto1221 It's like some code that the company lives by. HR type stuff that covers ethics, behaviour, attitude etc. I was so annoyed because I spent months doing technical study only to have a 4 hour therapy session lol
What you mean? I got a warehouse job offer on the spot at amazon! 🤣
@@hellotheir1427 he was probably applying for a software development position.
@@MrIndiemusic101 or business development or as a data center technician or any of the numerous skilled labor fields with the same corporate culture indoctrination requirements, but yeah you probably right
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This is the problem with credentials like degrees in most cases unrelated to legal or healthcare. There are a lot of tallented people that get overlooked and companies lose these valuable people and the people with credentials are only book smart and not street smart and suck at what they do. I'm all for education but please don't pass on someone because of a degree; if they can prove they know it and aren't a hack hire the tallented!
yeah good luck going to every aplicant you get LOL
Its the Tech industry, If your sole qualification is a degree for a position..........you are going to fail as a corporation.
The entire industry is amateurs, it started out of a garage or a basement from armchair warriors, no one worth any salt has a degree in a tech field, most quit school because colleges were only teaching what people already knew, My cousin went to Drexel(software engineering) and took a hardware course, I had to actually teach him hardware because their literature was based on Dual Core from over a decade ago, and you wonder why Programmers are god awful at using modern instruction sets fully utilizing hardware, their hardware background is based on F&*king dual core, let that sink in as to why it took almost a decade to finally start seeing quad cores with Threads starting to be utilized.
Also formal education I noticed teaches the same sloppy shortcuts and wrong code executions that have been repeated since the 60's-knock that shit off, I have seen Drivers that are just a complete mess and you wonder why Hardware doesn't work right from low level software engineers that are second rate.
The best way to learn is to actually pick it up yourself, paying for a few books and teaching yourself, the only reason for taking classes is specialized equipment certifications, like specific networking types.
I've seen that at every corporation that I've worked at. We have a manager with a degree in underwater basket weaving that got hired as a safety manager with zero experience in safety. A fellow employee applied for the same job and previously was the safety manager at delta airlines and he got turned down because he didnt have a degree.
It comes down to filtering applicants. HR wants a streamlined means of filtering out "unqualified" people. Setting a degree requirement is a non-effort way to do that.
Depends on the industry. I work in plant operations (this is industrial boilers, refrigeration, generators, and turbines) and you have to have a certificate to get in as an operator, and I agree with that. Sometimes they grandfather people in who worked in plants before the qualifications were necessary.
I know we meme Linus but he's a genuinely smart guy. He tried to warn ncix about amazon and they didn't even listen
if they hired him, "amazon has dropped your package" message would have completely different meaning
Linus at Amazon. Just think how many they would have had to replace the parts for damages.
He would have more than paid for it though. You need a degree in social engineering when half those people don’t have remotely as much real world experience. Amazon would have probably killed TH-cam at that rate.
9:43 Linkedin is pretty big in software engineering jobs. Not sure about other sectors though but I imagine management jobs would also be the same.
Was thinking the same. I'm in manufacturing engineering and it's very significant for networking and recruiting. And I'm 8 years younger than Linus, so hardly a boomer thing.
In a lot of sectors, especially in the states, the saying goes: "If you're not LinkedIn, you're left out."
@@ZesPak Sounds like an advertising slogan for LinkedIn.
Way over qualified
Bro you are everywhere
u again lol
He is now. Not back when he applied.
I see this guy in different genre of videos, he's everywhere.
@@stalin8684 Yup, it's especially weird for me because he was the first TH-cam channel I ever subbed in like 2010 or something when all he did was piano covers. Now 10 years later and he's commenting on every video in my feed.
Meanwhile linus' daughter: hwhat is my dad dooooooooing?????
Gotta side with Linus that starting fresh, even back then, could have been a huge challenge. Not saying impossible at all, but starting with the user base / fan base definitely helped a huge amount to the growth of LTT.
I followed from the NCIX account to the Linus Tech Tips account.. I think I subscribed to both due to some giveaway.. and when I did I remember being grateful for the flexibility found on the LTT account over the more cut-throat business attitude otherwise found on NCIX. I'm glad that he got to keep the channel or the creative spirit would've been missing.
Linkedin is actually huge pretty much everywhere except your space guys. Professional corporate, university, and government networks rely a lot on Linkedin
I guess we found the source of the decline in workers quality.
I was literally sorting through ~100 applications for a junior embedded software position on linkedin when you mentioned that at 9:18. In fairness, it's still relevant in engineering in the Bay Area.
Hey Linus, what’s happening with your new desk pc that u talked abou
I just wanna say thank you guys for all these clips. I can hang out with you guys after I've had a bad day like today. I especially love when I can catch the live shows.
LinkedIn still plays a huge role in certain European localities. It's still used for marketing, hiring and general business centric social media items by a lot of people and businesses.
That teams notification caught me off guard
Luke is giving the linus beard a try
He's turning into a cuddly teddybear
Lol
@@roebbiej No , he is turning into a tunnel bear 🐻
@@KaushikVirivinti oh...
I see what you did there.
Didn't Luke always have a beard situation.
I really should watch more of the WAN show, its great listening to this guys
Id be interested in a sort of “where are they now for people who used to work at LTT (or do but not as much in front of the camera). Ivan was always one of my favorites to see around and I’d be interested to know what all the OGs are up to today.
The algorithm sure likes you now. I know virtually nothing about tech, yet I know your channel well because TH-cam recommends your videos to me constantly. I have stuck around because you are hilarious.
Hearing Linus not getting a reply from Amazon for a job makes me feel better for when I apply for Amazon and not get a reply lol.
It's still a disgrace that some emoloyers don't even have the manners to tell you that you've been rejected. At this point they should be able to either automate it or have copy-pasta templates they could send out. 🤦♂️
@Tyler I've actually had companies respond to me saying something along the lines of 'we've found someone more qualified than you for this position'.
@@griffinhealy200 Yeah, but you know that's bullshit as well
Want to start a YT channel together? lol
@@griffinhealy200 i more like they don't sent anything instead like that, it kinda depressing for me
Speaking of the old days, I wonder if linus was ever active on the myspace pc support groups back in the 2000s. Used to be a pretty good sized scene there when it was active
That was awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience from back then.
I think because they are on youtube they don't use Linkedin much but if you work in tech or any office job it's pretty much a must-have.
The people who initially filter applications at these big companies are in HR, and HR typically has no clue what skills are important to the rest of the company. So they treat the posted job requirements as check boxes. Your application checks enough boxes and it gets forwarded to the middle manager in charge of the team you would work in, and that manager is the first person to see the application who actually knows what the job needs.
Not true, a company like Amazon in most cases would hire recruiters who know what the job actually entails. People just say this to make themselves feel better about not getting a job. Sometimes skills just don't come across so well on resumés
I had a system admin ask me to apply for a position where he was working(I know the software he needed a new hire for). We tried to get me in 3 times before giving up because HR wouldn’t approve it. They thought I needed 8 years of networking when the jobs primary focus was the software but could never get them to understand. Lol
@@jonsnider8677 yup my senior can't get his friend hired who has 6 years in our framework purely cuz of HR
4:55 linus' daughter sneaks in the room and leaves the door open 😂
I think Linus would've had the clout to pull his subs back from a fresh start
I mean, he’s done that a couple times with second channels
@@Qyver But like he said it was also very different time back then. Discoverability was so so much worse and much more total sub based, companies were also way less social media savy. Them getting any stuff to review outside of the close contacts Linus had made, and those contacts being able to sell it to their bosses that it made sense to send products for near zero sub channel would have been hard.
It's actually a lot harder to start a youtube channel now than it was back then. Like for example if you upload a video with a title no one else is using and you search for it, your video still won't show up and only the videos with a low of views will.
Actually untrue. I've seen quality TH-cam channels go from 50k subs to 500k in the span of a few months. It's all about abusing the algorithm.
@@the_bath3235 yeah well they have 50k subs. If you have 10 subs even by trying to abuse the algorithm you won’t get anywhere, since it’s going to depend on your videos engagement. Someone with a few subs won’t have high engagement
in IT linkendin is still very important. its how i got all the recruiters comming after me (23years old)
Dam I've been subbed since a decade plus. Your aging I'm aging. It's crazy how time flies and your still my favorite channel!
I subscribed 8 Years ago!
Here in Poland we have something similar, its caled "paczkomat" and its everywhere, but actually everyone can use it, tons of online shops use them, we can also use them. Also shops have free delivery when you spend more than $10, if you spend less, the shipping cost is usually $2
Colleges still insist on forcing you to make a LinkedIn profile. It's a mandatory assignment in every degree I've ever done. I literally just got another degree and one of the final assignments was to make a LinkedIn.
So, do you have like ten LinkedIn accounts now?
I would have loved to see Linus Amazon youtube channel "Linus Amazon Marketplace Explorations" or L.A.M.E. for short.
I thought he said that Taran had given him a recommendation for a moment
Its amazing how smart linus is technically and Logistically too.
This is amazing I just got suggested the old video of Linus discussing the social media coordinator position that Madison was interviewing for & it suggested this video where he discusses the Amazon social media coordinator position he was pursuing before getting LTT. What is this SEO-like stuff or magic?
Speaking of LinkedIn I'm a law student and it's absolutely huge for lawyers/prospective lawyers in trying to get internships and jobs. Some industries are different I guess.
There’s no street smarts in law
I gota say, im in university right now and linkden, while not what everyone is talking about, is still used pretty heavily. Additionally for almost all co-ops I've applied to they ask for a linkden account to look at.
LinkedIn's frickin huge in South Africa. In a skills-scarce market such as ours, there's just not enough devs around. Even if you have a basic web development portfolio to show, you're getting multiple recruiters trying to get you placed at consultant bodyshops. Now if you have machine learning, data science and cloud certifications your super in-demand on LinkedIn and you'll have remote working offers from the UK and Netherlands. I know the whole learntocode thing offended some people but in the third world, we're learning to code because it works.
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Lol that lil Ninja got YANKED out of there...not in a bad way by the way just in a "C'mere ya liddle rascal" way!
I actually had an amazon recruiter message me and got through to the first stage interview (was like the 3rd stage in the process) with them but tanked it
he so smart, he knew it wouldn't work and still he tried all his options. perfect
subs to LTT since 2011 and one of the earliest ltt forum member.
“You need to learn to just shut up sometimes” Linus I feel like I relate so much more to you, now. 😂
To be fair, LinkedIn is good for software related jobs, that too, at entry level only. And back, in Linus's time while searching for a job, LinkedIn wasn't as referred as it is now.
LinkedIn is actually quite big in the rest of the world, most major businesses including Amazon and Virgin Media communicate there regularly and it is a great way to connect with people in business.
The Microsoft Teams sound at 6:24 made me jump lol.
I know who taran from LTT is. Macro multi tasker taran
4:50 mini Yvonne drops something
Well she is Linus' daughter after all 😉 get it?
Would love to hear about your working experience in NCIX
Love Luke's Positivity and Enthusiasm
We need an episode talking about just what actually happened with NCIX cuz i guarantee that people are interested in it
The reality is that those applications are filtered through a program that looks for key requirements and keywords before they even get in front of a person. It's likely that Amazon to this day doesn't even know Linus "Tech Tips" Sebastian ever applied, because you didn't check the bachelors degree box on their filtering algorithm.
Remember Ryan Dahl who created NodeJS? He was denied for a job in 2016, cause the recruiter wanted a senior with minimum experience 7-10 years. NodeJS came out 2009. Same thing happened to Sebastián Ramírez, creator of fastAPI - job offer was 4+ years experience when fastAPI was 1.5 years old.
Love your channel! Great content! Is it just me, but does it seem like the further we get into this pandemic the more often it seems like Linus is baked? No judgment at all... I’m from Toronto and Vancouver is known as the Amsterdam of North America. I kinda assumed BC Bud was a staple part of most people’s lifestyle.. like it is here in Toronto, just its way better in BC. :) keep up the good work!
When Linus mentioned Terren, I was thinking of Taran the video editor.
Last time I was this early the website went from coming soon to sold out
Not funny, just cringe
About LinkedIn, it is actually massively profitable and popular here in Switzerland for tech jobs, so it is a geographic thing.
the Teams chat noti at 6:25 had me fooled
I'm surprised that this channel doesn't have more subs than it does, I feel like the team doesn't talk about it enough. It's pretty great
I’m on LinkedIn applying for accounting internships everyday. It’s tough out there man
Its tough out there for a gangsta
Linkedin gets a lot of footwork from recruiters. I get calls and messages from recruiters through linkedin almost weekly
Oh man 6:24 had me looking at all my devices for a notification :-D
Every new job I’ve had started as a conversation on LinkedIn. But I gotta say, the people who use it at the same level as facebook or other social media are somethin else.
When the Teams sound popped, i got scared because i am supposed to be in class but i am actually "skipping"and I thought i was in trouble. then I checked and my Teams in general its all closed xD. Smh to myself. 6:24 btw
The first moment when Linus and Luke both moved their heads simultaneously...
Got headhunted on linkedin have been hired ,so I think a good linked in along with experience and skills is important.
Imagine, just imagine
If linus was just an ordinary Amazon employees
This totally confirms my own experience with Amazon, and why no one with any spine/honour would never apply for them. I would have been an asset to them, but they never got back to me for the exact same reason. Have an acquaintance who work for them (IT, management position) whom confirm you're not much more than a number.
Connections is everything.
"Lifeguard and Swimming Lesson Instructor" was what killed it for ya Linus. XD
So when is there gonna be a TH-cam experiment when Linus makes a random no name channel with a normal Linus tech tips video on it and see how quick it gets picked up on
Anyone can do that
I would love to know if someone high up at Amazon watches this and goes "Damn it, so close."
Linkedin is HUGE when it comes to getting a job out of college. Once you get one though, you don't check it much anymore! But it's huge for networking. Your senior year, if you have good experience and skills listed, lots of real recruiters reach out to you
my school required us to make linkedin users we could not get the course done before the teachers accepted the profiles... however every job i have applied to requests a linkedin profile link in the application and ofc all the information in my cv and my cv.
I got my last three jobs via LinkedIn. Luke is out of touch with the corporate world.
Ok boomer
Bro ur so cool and edgy bro don’t forget to tweet about how you’ll cry yourself to sleep tonight
@@TheMrKeksLp Its true tho. Got also all 3 of my jobs and like almost all people i know its all true LinkedIn
Yeah LinkedIn is used for like every other job besides Linus Tech tips. Like I still love yall just saying it does mean lot to the corporate world and small business.
I should update mine. Haven’t looked at it since 2014, when one of my professors made it an assignment to set up account.
You can tell the perception of Amazon went from "the A in FAANG in Silicon Valley" to "Walmart 2: Electric Boogaloo" just by looking at the top comments automatically assuming Linus wanted to work at an Amazon warehouse...
I've never even heard of ncix and I'm been in the computer space for many decades now.
Friend of mine once applied to work in AWS
So he had 4 interviews and the last one took almost 6 hours .
I'm actually getting a fair amount of interest from LinkedIn. I've had 3 recruiter's contact me in the past month.
I genuinely can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not
TheSuper Stomper would love to know 😂
Yeah it's easy to get interest from recruiters if you're already working. Companies see unemployed as a red flag.
@@thesuperstomper4776 In some countries (like mine) LinkedIn is pretty big. It's one of the main sources of searching for employment. I've done a number of interviews where a recruiter has reached out to me on LinkedIn
@@thesuperstomper4776 Not at all. Maybe I'm just lucky, but my second major tech job I got from LinkedIn. I don't just let my profile sit there. I also go through the job search engine daily. It could also be the nature of my work. I work in Data centre infrastructure. And it's not as saturated as the coders and software developers.
LinkedIn has probably got me my last four jobs, including the one I start on Monday. Generally, it's pretty useless... but it's great for a seasoned software engineer in the market for new opportunities.
one of the managers that worked at the company I work at for 8 years got hired for a management position in amazon. dudes making $$$ now
Hey, Terren Tong now works at Dell. since august this year. Why did he leave Corsair?
People DEFINITELY care about LinkedIn LMFAO. Luke doesn't know wtf he's talking about.
I dont use it much but have lots of recruiters message me through it
In the IT/Business space (in the US), linkedin is pretty active. We can't make assumptions about how it works for their industry and geographic location.
@@alkaliaurange I'm sure LinkedIn is not very useful for the top .1% in terms of social status. The point is he said LinkedIn isn't used overall which is clearly false
Maybe it depends on which area you are working on. Because I do agree with Luke and Linus, I've only ever gotten ONE job thanks to LinkedIn, and it was from people who were clueless about actual marketing and media. That aside, I've only been contacted that way for people 50+ years old who still believe stuff like home office meaning you're wanking yourself all day instead of doing your job. As a former IT, I have realized that, aside of companies actively and aggressively looking for low payment IT employees to urgently fix some yoke for 15 dollars and a coke, people don't really care about LinkedIn and it is mostly a fancy and hand ready way of showing my portfolio and the last person I worked for. If I want a job, I go to the Careers section on companies' website and drop my portfolio there.
@@chromab7713 wow that really sucks. For me
LinkedIn: exists
Recruiter: want an interview at Top company?
Like twice a week. I don't have to apply anywhere anymore.
All msg from linked in.. " how about starting a new job, starting with a new 4-year degree at our ________colllege"
We sure would be happy and proud to have you at memoryexpress :) .Kudos to LTT , you sure have outdone yourself Mr.sebastian.
Lol. Linus' little girl trolling him in the background is gold
Not getting the job at Amazon for not having a degree when he was over qualified as shit is the primary factor in why I hate the college system. People value a piece of paper with some names scribbled on it over real, actually experience and workability
They guys that haven't looked for jobs in years saying that LinkedIn is dead is like a married person saying the bar scene is dead.
It shows where they want to progress though. You have to realize they are a team of 70-100 people and are hiring all the time.
LinkedIn is still huge, just maybe for different industries. I get recruiters contacting me all the time because of LinkedIn
LinkedIn is very good for ppl doing business in manufacturing. I also think it's quite popular in the field of finances. There's a lot of money to be made in b2b on LinkedIn.
It's easy to target ppl in your field of expertise as "employment" is pretty much the main database entry.