This is a fantastic video. Listening to this as I am 6 months into full time work as a software engineer, it is amazing advice. The ramp up period is very challenging and definitely less cumbersome with a buddy. It is essential. I had so many questions and having my boss being there to answer them in a timely fashion helped me to get up to speed quickly. The round robinin questions is something I didn't realize would give off one style of coding. A great point I will consider moving forward. The validation behind what I am experiencing at work is also a reason why I enjoyed this so much. Keep up the great content and to anyone reading the comments or watching this, I can attest as someone in the field this is the advice/video I wish I had received the day before starting my first job in this career.
This reminds me of some of the best advice I’ve gotten: learn to say NO. Great engineers/scientists work on what they know will work. Amateurs don’t know, so they accept everything.
On the organisation side, one of the best things you can do imo is add a why to the feature description. Explain why things were designed a certain way, what the expected returns were etc. Helps understand it much faster than just the code
Great content, thank you. There's not enough of this practical advice for new, beginning devs like myself on UA-cam. Since you've asked, my biggest issue is getting blocked and not asking for help soon enough...wanting to "figure it out" so as not let my mentor down. It rarely works in terms of productivity even if I succeed in finding a solution. Far too often I burn the midnight oil running down every intellectual lead I have.
This sounds like a great advice, thank you Utsav. I'm late commer to professional sw dev. and facing new language, new platform and new field of application, all at once. Being out of comfort zone is ok for me, this how I learn fastest but you never know if your learning pace will be up to the employer expectation. This advice comes in as gold! It felt like the advice on seeking help from various people is most valuable to me. Many of us are introverts and that does not come to us as the first obvious idea! I use E Ink tablet boox note air2 for taking as many notes as possible by hand. I try to rewrite/reformat them nice afterwards. This makes retention far better than typing notes on the keyboard.
alternate angle is a good way of putting it. I can read through a page of a tutorial and have already seen 90% of it. The important part is summarizing what I didn't know and didn't know together in a simple line such as "python decorators are functions that return functions after doing something with them". I do that now with a simple echo ' at the command line and it's all there in my history. Another similar idea is to write good git commit messages. Establishing a easy to read narrative for a coding tutorial I've done makes it easy to reference. Chris Beams has a great article on this that turned git into an asset rather than a mindless chore.
Would have loved to see your notes (as a Senior SDE), would have provided a great template for someone like me who usually avoid taking notes. Great video, the quality never disappoints :D
Hello Utsav. I don't have any special education and experience in IT, but I really want to work as a developer. I want to start with the backend and then switch to the developer's fullstack. Can you give advice on how best to do this? Where should I start? Thank you.
Can you please make a video on how to build confidence? Nowadays I'm lost, sometimes i feel that my manager is exploiting me, and i feel that i have spoilt my career
Hey Utsav, I was wondering since it's rather hard to get a first job as a engineer in the us, might it be a good idea to get a job here (eu) where they take you in even with no experience or portfolio and later come to the us to earn more and get a job more easily because of the experience from the eu?
This video specifically looks like it's made for me. I am currently going through large codebase in my new organization and facing similar issues . Thanks Utsav u motivate me a lot.
This is a fantastic video. Listening to this as I am 6 months into full time work as a software engineer, it is amazing advice. The ramp up period is very challenging and definitely less cumbersome with a buddy. It is essential. I had so many questions and having my boss being there to answer them in a timely fashion helped me to get up to speed quickly. The round robinin questions is something I didn't realize would give off one style of coding. A great point I will consider moving forward. The validation behind what I am experiencing at work is also a reason why I enjoyed this so much. Keep up the great content and to anyone reading the comments or watching this, I can attest as someone in the field this is the advice/video I wish I had received the day before starting my first job in this career.
Thanks, John, for sharing your experience!
This reminds me of some of the best advice I’ve gotten: learn to say NO. Great engineers/scientists work on what they know will work. Amateurs don’t know, so they accept everything.
*good developers
This is me currently in my first software engg job. My team is generally busy and I feel overwhelmed on how to start adapting. Thanks for this video!
On the organisation side, one of the best things you can do imo is add a why to the feature description. Explain why things were designed a certain way, what the expected returns were etc. Helps understand it much faster than just the code
Great content, thank you. There's not enough of this practical advice for new, beginning devs like myself on UA-cam. Since you've asked, my biggest issue is getting blocked and not asking for help soon enough...wanting to "figure it out" so as not let my mentor down. It rarely works in terms of productivity even if I succeed in finding a solution. Far too often I burn the midnight oil running down every intellectual lead I have.
This sounds like a great advice, thank you Utsav. I'm late commer to professional sw dev. and facing new language, new platform and new field of application, all at once. Being out of comfort zone is ok for me, this how I learn fastest but you never know if your learning pace will be up to the employer expectation. This advice comes in as gold! It felt like the advice on seeking help from various people is most valuable to me. Many of us are introverts and that does not come to us as the first obvious idea! I use E Ink tablet boox note air2 for taking as many notes as possible by hand. I try to rewrite/reformat them nice afterwards. This makes retention far better than typing notes on the keyboard.
alternate angle is a good way of putting it.
I can read through a page of a tutorial and have already seen 90% of it. The important part is summarizing what I didn't know and didn't know together in a simple line such as "python decorators are functions that return functions after doing something with them".
I do that now with a simple echo ' at the command line and it's all there in my history.
Another similar idea is to write good git commit messages. Establishing a easy to read narrative for a coding tutorial I've done makes it easy to reference. Chris Beams has a great article on this that turned git into an asset rather than a mindless chore.
This is video is like an onboarding to working life for new devs, thank you so much for these tips.
Thanks. Very helpful.
I recently got burnt out because I was not planning well.
I wish I had done all these. This is really good.
Would have loved to see your notes (as a Senior SDE), would have provided a great template for someone like me who usually avoid taking notes. Great video, the quality never disappoints :D
Thanks Ustav for such great words of technical guidance...
Another great video as always 👍
Well said this is almost exactly what my boss told me about becoming a better engineer.
Hello Utsav. I don't have any special education and experience in IT, but I really want to work as a developer. I want to start with the backend and then switch to the developer's fullstack. Can you give advice on how best to do this? Where should I start? Thank you.
Superb video, can you share your ideas on how to focus and what all things to learn after a career break.
Can you please make a video on how to build confidence? Nowadays I'm lost, sometimes i feel that my manager is exploiting me, and i feel that i have spoilt my career
Utsav please make playlists on Declarative Reactive programing in Angular with RxJS.
Utsav this is so useful thank you
Very informative for me ,
thank you very much 🙏
Bro...where you went... I got notification today after long time... 😀
woo
great sir
this video is fantastic
engineering with rusell peters
Dammi tips da great content inspiration
Once again Great vide Dai
Great video! I wouldn't have started my own Tech UA-cam channel if it wasn't for finding yours. Regards :)
Cool, thanks!
Hey Utsav, I was wondering since it's rather hard to get a first job as a engineer in the us, might it be a good idea to get a job here (eu) where they take you in even with no experience or portfolio and later come to the us to earn more and get a job more easily because of the experience from the eu?
It really depends. But I’d say, get experience wherever you can, yes.
Sir , please make a video of software engineering from scratch for non it background.
01:25 but I like cold coffee...lol
Sir a student wishes to get a job at FAANG should focus on data structures and algorithms or some specific tech stack and master it .
Data structures and algorithms
This video specifically looks like it's made for me. I am currently going through large codebase in my new organization and facing similar issues . Thanks Utsav u motivate me a lot.
Wow that's great
Whats graph docs?
Awesome👏👏
did u just say frictionless???
lol