How To Stand Out In An Insanely Competitive Tech Market (Ex-Amazon Principal Engineer)

I feel like recruiters don’t want to recruit unemployed engineers, they cold call engineers with a job.

My experience so far if you want to land a job as an engineer: build something that you care about. Dont build the next todo app, come up with your own idea. Ask yourself what piece of software would make your life - even if it is just a little bit - easier and build that stuff. Congrats! You just delivered value. Companys will always look out for people who deliver value.

I was listening to this audio only and for a minute there I thought Steve has a strange way of shortening the word candidate, “candy”

I'm not even in the market for software engineering, but I found this video incredibly clear and useful. Thanks for putting out this gold mine for us Steve!!

The issue with the Depth tip is that it assumes that your niche pick has a (visible enough) market, recruiters will be able to judge your knowledge as deep and that your pick is relevant for the role. None of the three are usually true, much less altogether.

Terrible market, much needed video! I haven’t even watched this yet lol

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wow, just wow , very insightful ! , the level of knowledge and value you are sharing in awesome !

Oh man! Thank you so much I was not aware of this, will apply this tips.

So much knowledge. My brain can't handle it 😁