Will Bad Career Advice KILL Your Tech Career? (from a Principal at Amazon)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.พ. 2021
- It’s hard to tell the difference between good and bad advice. How can you figure out which is which? And most importantly, how can you avoid the kind of guidance that will stifle your career?
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I have been banging this drum for a long time. Be careful who you take advice from. Your mental model is a really thoughtful way to approach it.
really concise stuff, keep up the good work!
Reall love this stuff! Thank you
That's a really good channel! Hope you'll continue publishing videos!
This was such a great video. Thank you! :)
I am pretty sure that this guy deep inside is a Bro. Has the vibe.
I think the multiple shelves of alcohol contribute to that vibe
@@DanEMO592 When you at his house, just casually grab one and start chugging
Meta!!! I just found your videos and I am completely on board! Great content!
Need any help making more?
witty and actionable! Subbed!
Straight facts! No filler all meat baby! Thanks ill use this advice to get my first data science job out of my masters. (I also need an internship)
1:38 - "You should watch out for puffy or inspirational phrases without substance" 👏
I think he said
pithy
not puffy
Amazing content !!
Going to say, this is probably the best kind of video considering all of the videos out there that tell you what to do from the perspective of someone else's experiences of how to be a software engineer or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those videos sound fine on the surface, but they don't understand every person's (obviously) viewpoint and knowledge base
Dude this was hilarious thank you!
so this is a JOKE - that I will believe
Yes it is helpful, thanks for the adviace bro.
I was the 1,000th like - this deserves a promotion to Senior because it demonstrates key empathetic principles.
Is autobiographical advice actually bad? I find it useful to hear people's paths to success, even if that path is no longer applicable (due to changes in tech, the market, or whatever). In particular, the variety of paths to success gives me ideas about how I can carve my own path. To me, autobiographical advice combines with "good advice" (the rational mental model you describe) to create actionable ideas.
Thanks for the advice! (;
10/10 advice on grinding my soul into dust then baking a loaf of bread with it
How do I find a mentor at office? How do I network? I see the good ones are already surrounded by many mentees.
Steps to becoming a better software engineer:
Step 1: Find a software engineer better than you.
Step 2: Kill the software engineer.
Step 3: Eat their flesh, absorb their skills.
Step 4: Quickly find another software engineer as to not waste the killing momentum.
...
Profit!
I see you follow the among us method of becoming a software engineer
Nice. This is what I am looking for
Yes officer, this post right here
You got gumption, kid. You're going places.
“Creating yet another javascript framework nobody asked for but you forced everybody to use” this one is too real 😂
Please, take note, that your advice may fit "professional" companies like Amazon (even if we leave aside the shady things Amazon did), but may not fit company that do not play fair with their employees. But you yourself actually mentioned it, by filtering advices.
For instance, you told that to become senior one needs to be a leader, have vision about goals. And it is how things should be. But in some companies to become senior one just needs to constantly brag, kiss managers shoes and walk over others.
So your advice may apply to Amazon-like companies, but not to others. And it's not always possible to get into Amazon-like company.
Interesting take. Note that the world is not just and there is no script in achieving anything and as you pointed out will be unique to each environment and paradigm. Like anything it is the meaning that you extract out of the abstraction or the key message. For example Meta’s advice I extracted is how to be effective and avoid the traps of always chasing the new shiny object or as Peter Druker stated “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Knowing that the time is finite and scare resource is key as well. Therefore, depending on your goal or objective you must be strategic with your approach and alignment to your comp mission is a good sound advice. Kiss assing you may believe is a wrong tactic, however, being agreeable and knowing how to diffuse friction and cultivate positive environment can move your vision quicker. So like meta Advice, observe closely on their daily tactic and once you see it.. it’s difficult to unsee things. Know that we are all in our own journey and these folks in power are still cultivating there own sets of skills. What you observed are folks stumbling and troubleshooting what works for them at the given time and objective. Cheers
@@bboystiff06 thanks for the feedback. Did I correctly understand your point as "Observe what they do, not what they say and adapt"?
@@uknow2908 exactly, the hardest part is many of our interactions are improvasation and dynamic. Conversation becomes difficult to dissect its meaning and intent; I am not entirely convince all interaction are intentional and productive in a face to face setting. Knowning that, we need to do our best to really filter the noise, and understand the other person's angle. If nothing else, learn what not to do, discard everything else; protect your mental space. Lastly, a zen proverb "Empty your cup". When your cup is full, there is no room to absorve and learn new things. Water will overflow "content goes in one ear, out in another". All that said, you watching and replying to comments such as this is a positive sign that you are going after it, being intentional, and really dissecting or chewing the content. I think this is key, knowing this I believe you can break through whatever obstacle ahead of you. Good luck my friend.
One last thing I wanted to zoom into, you mention bragging. To some it may appear to be as you stated but most upper management do not know all the ins and outs. Sometimes you must promote yourself or highlight key achievements. There is also nothing wrong with taking pride of the awesome work we produce. Bragging to others, stellar stand out to the next. Not all have similar context as you do, we need to help our boss regonize our achievement. Of course there is an elegant way to execute this.
@@bboystiff06 thing about bragging / promoting oneself and it's ethical side depends on the situation. The point is, since managers are lazy and/or exhausted - the one who was heard the most, not who did the most will be promoted in many companies. Once again, it's how things are, not how they should be.
i am following you for a while. just curious whats your age?
4. is there a conflict of interest?
2:36 sounds like Prof JBP in Asian form
gonna start baking that soul bread after watching this video
1:51 "Ever notice that people that post inspirational quotes on social media aren't your most successful friends?" That was savage
I really liked this video and the advice you give in general, but wouldn't the point "look for advisors that know enough about your situation" speak against taking advice from sources like this channel, as you have to give advice not tailored to any particular viewer?
Legend 👏👏
Idk I really like your channel but this has solidified my desire to work in small business/start ups
Big tech seems soul stealing and culturally odd as hell. So here is the wisdom without the job haha
I wish I found your series early in my career before I got pigeon holed in the wrong direction. This is also why those boomers telling us "I could do this when I was a kid so could you" is full of shit.
Please make content for entry level engineers too.
I just joined Amazon out of college, but due to wfh, I have no idea how to model my career path, what design choices I should pay attention to during my small tasks, what to discuss with my manager in 1:1s etc
Could we potentially pay for a 15-30 minute coaching call with you?
I have a question. If it's so hard to get good talent and so hard to keep them and the cost of training and integration is also very high, then why does Amazon treat it's workers so badly and how are they still thriving if people get in and leave within a few years. Also, how come you're able to withstand the work pressure there for all these years and still manage this channel, your kid and anything else you got going on?
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YES ! if the person giving advice about good relationships is basing her advice on her bad
experience she should be giving advice of what to avoid . many people lack recognition of false truths.
Here’s one advice, if you want to be successful upload more videos.
How about, if you wanna do something with your life, don't join Amazon.
Savage.
PRAISE THE LOAF!
I want to hear from Biden an advice on how to raise good kids!
I really like how you stole this name right under facebook's nose
Yeah especially how he stole this name before facebook was thinking about changing.
tech lead v2
I don't think so. Techlead is 90% trolling and do not give you concise advice on career progression. I think this video is lower in quality than some of Meta's other videos
@@abysswatcher4907 By the way, when TechLead gave advises about marige, he mentioned that he is divorced. But you defently on point. tech lead is EX, but Meta is here)
Bad advice overall.
My advice to you, my friend, get invisalign. I'm doing it and am sure it pays off in the long run.