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A Life Engineered
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Приєднався 22 січ 2021
My name is Steve Huynh, I am a UA-camr, a Principal Engineer, a productivity junkie. I believe that if we take a structured and engineering approach to our lives and careers we can achieve anything we want. My mission is to help knowledge workers develop a growth mindset so they can live the lives they want, whether that’s getting promoted as quickly as possible, starting a business/startup, or finding financial independence.
I do this by creating UA-cam videos, my weekly email newsletter, and connecting people with a community of like-minded individuals on my Discord, where I distill the lessons I've learned from nearly 20 years in the tech industry.
I do this by creating UA-cam videos, my weekly email newsletter, and connecting people with a community of like-minded individuals on my Discord, where I distill the lessons I've learned from nearly 20 years in the tech industry.
How To Find A Tech Job In An Impossible Market (ex-Amazon Principal Engineer)
💡 To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit www.brilliant.org/alifeengineered. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription.
💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is **chef's kiss** - discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ
📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - newsletter.alifeengineered.com/
🙏 My UA-cam content will always be free of charge but if you'd like to support the channel, I'd be honored if you supported me on Patreon - www.patreon.com/ALifeEngineered
BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
So Good They Can't Ignore You - geni.us/SoGood This book transformed my life when I read it for the first time nearly 10 years ago. It still guides the way I think about self-development today.
Deep Work - geni.us/ALE-DeepWork The most important currency you have is your undivided attention. This book shows you exactly how to spend this currency in a manner that will lead to head-turning accomplishment.
SYSTEM DESIGN
Designing Data-Intensive Applications geni.us/DataIntensive
Currently the best reference for contemporary for system design.
System Design Interview (Volume 2) geni.us/SystemDesignIntervie and geni.us/SystemDesignInterview - For interviews, the best references are System Design Interview and System Design Interview Volume 2 by Alex Xu.
💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is **chef's kiss** - discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ
📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - newsletter.alifeengineered.com/
🙏 My UA-cam content will always be free of charge but if you'd like to support the channel, I'd be honored if you supported me on Patreon - www.patreon.com/ALifeEngineered
BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
So Good They Can't Ignore You - geni.us/SoGood This book transformed my life when I read it for the first time nearly 10 years ago. It still guides the way I think about self-development today.
Deep Work - geni.us/ALE-DeepWork The most important currency you have is your undivided attention. This book shows you exactly how to spend this currency in a manner that will lead to head-turning accomplishment.
SYSTEM DESIGN
Designing Data-Intensive Applications geni.us/DataIntensive
Currently the best reference for contemporary for system design.
System Design Interview (Volume 2) geni.us/SystemDesignIntervie and geni.us/SystemDesignInterview - For interviews, the best references are System Design Interview and System Design Interview Volume 2 by Alex Xu.
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How I Started 5 Successful Side Projects Without Burning Out
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Level up your career and comp → fm.dev/a-life-engineered 💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is chef's kiss - discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ 📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - newsletter.alifeengineered.com/ 🙏 My UA-cam content will always be free of charge but if you'd like to support the channel, I'd be honored if you ...
I Quit My $650k Job After Learning These 4 Things About Money
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💡 To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/ALifeEngineered/ You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. 💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is chef's kiss - discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ 🙏 My UA-cam content will always be free of charge but if you'd like to support the channel, I'd be ...
Principal Engineer Reveals How To Be Promoted FAST
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Principal Engineer Reveals How To Be Promoted FAST
How To Prep For Tech Interviews While Working Full-Time
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How To Prep For Tech Interviews While Working Full-Time
Should You Leave Your Team Or Stay?
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Should You Leave Your Team Or Stay?
If I Were Looking For A Tech Job In 2024 I'd Do This
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If I Were Looking For A Tech Job In 2024 I'd Do This
How To Overcome Crippling Impostor Syndrome
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Is It Smarter Not To Help Others At Work?
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Is It Smarter Not To Help Others At Work?
What If I Can't Handle The Pressure?
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What If I Can't Handle The Pressure?
How To Negotiate Compensation Like A Boss
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How To Negotiate Compensation Like A Boss
I Did 850 Tech Interviews For Amazon And I Learned This
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I Did 850 Tech Interviews For Amazon And I Learned This
What's The Biggest Sacrifice You Made In Order To Succeed?
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What's The Biggest Sacrifice You Made In Order To Succeed?
11 Essentials For New Software Engineers (From A Principal Engineer)
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11 Essentials For New Software Engineers (From A Principal Engineer)
My Simple Productivity System With Notion A.I. [FREE TEMPLATES]
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My Simple Productivity System With Notion A.I. [FREE TEMPLATES]
I Try To Forget Everything And So Should You
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I Try To Forget Everything And So Should You
How Much I Make As A Principal Engineer At Amazon (EXACT Amount)
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How Much I Make As A Principal Engineer At Amazon (EXACT Amount)
Why Have You Stayed At Amazon As Long As You Have? Office Hours #2
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Why Have You Stayed At Amazon As Long As You Have? Office Hours #2
3 High-Leverage Career Skills (From a Principal At Amazon)
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3 High-Leverage Career Skills (From a Principal At Amazon)
How I Have Time For Everything (From A Principal At Amazon)
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How I Have Time For Everything (From A Principal At Amazon)
3 Career Killers for Software Engineers (from a Principal at Amazon)
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3 Career Killers for Software Engineers (from a Principal at Amazon)
How I Would Learn To Code (If I Could Start Over)
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How I Would Learn To Code (If I Could Start Over)
Loving the side jokes. Keep it up!
Just had 4 beers, cant start it now. Gotta be tomorrow.
cant focus with the constant eye moving lol
I luv this
I would say, 1. Prep the right stuff also... I just flopped a OOP interview, when I revised Coding Problems Patterns (Grokking) on Educative. Also, use algorithms and data structures in your revision. Ive just gobe through each subject and resource and listed out all topics or lessons, and then rated them on urgency. Then, just create a small heap of 10 items, where order only kind of matters. Some videos (while washing up), some books and experiments while revising Once you start getting through items on the heap, just add new ones. You only ever have a small window of whaf you can care about or consume, so this is a good way to keep it managed 💪🏋️
Just to give a more measured response here: Yes, he and many tech workers are super lucky on the financial front that can allow him to make the decision he made. However, that still doesn't mean it's a hard mental hurdle to jump through for him to quit his job. He and many tech workers are super privileged and that's an objective fact, but that doesn't dismiss it's still a hard decision to leave the corporate life stability (nor does that discount anyone else's hardship)
As a fellow Asia millennial and former Amazonian, I applaud you for taking this huge step. I feel this is particularly difficult step for us millennials (especially Asians) to take because we've been taught since childhood the opposite, so knowing when to leave the corporate life is not just a financial decision to make but also a mental block to remove. Because of that, congrats!
Do you have any recommendations for landing interviews for internships?
I was laid off in 2023 by Microsoft. Finding a new job was rough. I recently posted a new video on things that have worked for me and things that have not worked for me
What impossible market? I was laid off in Jan and found a new job in a month. Then 4 months later project was cancelled and i found a new job in a week. I regret watching these fear mongering videos
Surely you understand that your experience is anecdotal then?
this is insane. i’ve been trying to get into the industry for 6 years. i networked my way into a position at a start up, got laid off after 2 years. first job is the hardest to land, right? i sent thousands of applications. dozens of interviews. i built things, i studied. years went by and the job market got worse and worse. i’ve given up these days. i’m not sure ive ever gotten any response from an application ive ever sent, and interviewers just want still more experience than i have. even 2 years is nothing to them. i don’t know how you’ve gotten where you are, but the rest of the world is not like that.
@@jakesimmons5327 Nah she's just smart and better at interviewing and getting noticed lol
Great contents,thank you❤
learn to plumb 💪
Expert advice. This is not your traditional generic bs other UA-camrs are doing.
Not sure how universally applicable it is but sounds like a good advice. Nice video! Question about Brilliant - do their courses really go deep enough into subjects? I thought they position themselves as an app to "learn on the go" and I think many science areas require long and deep dives. It always seemed like they focus on "pop science" similar to what you can get from UA-cam shorts but with interactive examples to play with. Did they change that paradigm since?
This video was extremely helpful! Thank you 🙏
Haha, grindr for your pets, masterclass Steve
The bar has been raised,it’s the survival of the fittest
Thank god I have a job now, it’s low paying though, $50/hr contractor and can implement pretty much everything. But yeah it’s simply bad ROI to even apply now if you have a job. 0 responses.
$50/hr is 100k definitely not low
@@tkdevlop in tech, yeah that’s low. Especially the fact no benefits. I should be at like $180k/yr tbh
It's inspiring that you went from support engineer all the way to principal engineer. Nice content!
4:13 Yeah, I guess but not everyone has 30+ years of experience at Amazon with friends in high places.
1:12 This is something that I'm experiencing, but I wonder why this is the case. I'll have periods of no contact followed by periods of companies reaching out
Quick summary: do leetcode as much as you can.
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Totally unrelated but Love that BB54.
You also learn about power management. If they run put of power using O(n^2) lighting, they wont be able to lock you out with the electronic security doors before you can harvest then
Sir i completed btech in july 2023, since then i am unemployed and gap is increasing, i am learning different skills but am not in the eligibility criteria of most of the companies here in india, sir please suggest what to do about the increasing gap
Please upload more productivity videos :)
Grindrr for pets 🤣🤣🤣
This was a solid waste of 15 minuets. Done watching these videos.
So so good video. I am a blockchain developer in VietNam. Not really related but you are from Vietnam, right?
13:45 That was great!!! HA!! I'm dead ☠️.
@13:42 I died
Needed this. Thank you Steve. Much love
I really resonated with that comment about not wasting time learning all of the fundamentals before starting interview prep. I'm trying to get a Data Science/ML job in big tech whilst working as a Data scientist in another company and I find myself wasting time on courses on stats and ML which are thigns I already have a firm understanding of. I'm now just going to start just answering interview questions then use that to cover the areas I don't know, vs waiting to learn everything first then do interview prep. Thank you Steve!
Any chance you can do/recommend a past video for people later in their career thinking of pivoting away from software engineering? Sadly I'm one of those people without the network of folks to talk pros and cons with of pivoting to something like cyber, technical program management or engineering management
Hi Steve, Thank you for the great and helpful posts. Do you offer any consultations? I am a data scientist in need of guidance ...
Watching your videos really feels like having a boss that really cares about your future and is willing to express his wisdom for your growth. God bless you.
Best tips ever, thanks for sharing!
I'm waiting for my phone interview feedback for SDE II, here's hoping 🤞🤞
Unfortunately I didn't get it this time! But I've taken some decent introspection. Be more direct with STAR, not STTSTATARR. Dude asked me design, after I grinded Algorithms for 2 weeks. Just 2 hours is all it would have taken to be ready for that. Keep grinding fellas 🏋️🤘
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💡 To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit www.brilliant.org/alifeengineered. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. 💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is **chef's kiss** - discord.gg/HFVMbQgRJJ 📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - newsletter.alifeengineered.com/
Yeahhh, I don't believe this guy did 850 interviews---- fake