How To Become The BEST Engineer At Your Company

"⚠ Prime Self Glazing"

"If you're always in the state of hurry its really hard to be friendly" was such a good line. Its so easy to forget to break out of that Hurry while loop.

How to burn out and get nothing in return 101.

Step 1: Kiss up the right people Step 2: ??? Step 3: PROFIT!!!

If I was as fast as I am watching your videos, as I was doing work at work, man, I’ll probably be the best engineer in my company

This isn't even about becoming the best engineer. It's about becoming the best tech bro Patrick Bateman. Or more accurately Paul Allen.

The irony of "tricks to come off as genuine"

Damn that was truly terrifying! Honestly, I don't care how "10x" this guy is, I don't care how valuable he is to the company or how he gets stuff done on the project or if everybody else likes him. I do not want to have this person on my team or in my company, and I don't want to have anyone who is like this involved in any aspect of my life to any amount. This is the mental framework of a skinwalker. "I waited 8 months for the right time to strategically insert an anime gif that I knew this guy would like so I could gain his trust and get an in with him". Listen to that and then consider what kind of person you'd have to be in order to think that way. Then decide whether or not you would be comfortable being around them knowing that. At any moment in time and in any interaction you have he IS playing you. He says "build genuine connections" but honestly I highly doubt anyone that thinks like this is capable of doing that. At the very least they would have a very twisted understanding of it. If you encounter a *creature* like this, treat them like you would a dangerous predator, because they are one.

Best advice is: - Always be willing to break something. - Always be the one willing to learn something you don't know. - Put in the work, meet your deadlines, make your code both readable, performant, tested and/or documented if its a hard / unlegible piece of work. - Listen to your peers, and even your juniors, too many seniors are stuck in old ways of working and arrogant in learning new things. - Always provide solutions, if you ever say no - provide a reason why, and a work around. - Learn to talk technical things in a non technical way, not everyone is a developer, and also not everyone is technically minded. Being the best engineer isn't always being the best at writing code.

1. BE FULLY AVAILABLE IN WORKHOURS 2. BE SKILLFUL 3. BE RESPONSIBLE 4. BE KIND 5. (OPTIONAL) MENTORING