How To Invest In Your Software Engineer Career (From L8 SWE at Microsoft)

Great video! Quick feedback, I think there is a little bit of echo in the room you're recording on, fixing that can improve by a lot the audio quality! I see that you have had an impressive career at Microsoft and Meta, it would be pretty cool if you could make a video on key points that made you stand out and be able to grow to where you are now.

Great content as always! Would love to see a video focused on moving beyond L5 (->L6, L7), since there's much less information out there on how to make that push beyond the typical senior "career level".

Hi Kun! Your content is super high quality and extremely valuable. I'm looking forward to seeing more videos from you.

Hi Kun! I have been watching your channel and I'm a big fan! I have a channel of my own, feel free to take a look and let me know if you'd want to collaborate at all!

Great video! I'd like some feedback on how should I get started? I am currently in 2nd year of college and somewhat familiar with java (data structures and algorithms) and currently learning web development independently (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JS etc.). I still didn't pick my electives in college. Any guidance on how I should proceed from here? Please specify details. I'd really appreciate it!

Love the video Your sound is definitely echoing too much in the hollow room. Please bring the mic closer to you or just do a voiceover

Hi Kun! Thanks again for more great insight. Is the reason why you recommend asking for L5 promotion progression when you're given news on L4 promotion due to you already demonstrating the ability to perform at an L4?

Yeah, some very good points in this video. By the way, is that Excalidraw I see 👀👀?

Hi Kun, thanks for all your videos. I want to ask - what do you think is a reasonable time and confidence level of proving you are already at L+1 before going up for promotion? I know companies do this differently, but would you say that an L3 needs to be working as L4 for at least 6 months on a project of sizeable complexity, independently, and not need further growth into L4 before going up for promotion? In my opinion, people are always continuously learning and it's not always practical to wait for 100% skill acquisition and demonstration before trying to move up.

And what about the interview process? I feel like it's easy to just kinda drop the ball. Will I get more leniency in interviews if i hypothetically did all this super high level complicated amazing proven work at my current company?