Here's the question highlighted in the video from the senior engineer at Meta: link.jointaro.com/MxA1LfyPqnkjic277. What other questions do you like to ask when deciding between multiple job opportunities?

Good video! And I also appreciate naming the sections in the video; thank you! 🙌

All your points are very clear and incisive. Your analogies are spot on too. You are a great communicator.

1:08 I agree with this, as long as you're sure the one who is interviewing you is not the CEO or wouldn't be your immediate superior if you were to be hired. In the last startup I worked, I got interviewed by the CEO. I didn't really enjoy talking to him. In fact, I noticed several red flags during our conversation, such as offering a compensation multiple orders of magnitude below the minimum wage in my country. I got an offer and ended up accepting it because I was really desperate since junior dev positions have historically been very scarce in my hometown. Needless to say, I absolutely regret working for that company. I was overworked to the bone, and ultimately fired for extremely petty reasons. I'm pretty sure my former boss lied to me just because he wanted to hide the fact the company was essentially going bankrupt, as most of the developers that worked there were also fired alongside myself.

Thank you, your advice always helps

Great video! I especially like the discussion about company brands, because it's easier to remember which companies to look for. Would love to see a video covering more companies like Snap, Lyft, Salesforce... What's Spotify's brand from an IC perspective? That's my top choice atm.

great advice my friend !

Awesome video!!

Thanks for sharing

I disagree, my thoughts are below on each point. 1. I can see where you're getting at with the first point, however that advice should be prefaced with it being applicable in larger organisations. If you're attracted to working for SMEs/Startup/Scale-ups, then your interaction with the interviewers is going to be a much larger factor in your decision making since it's more representative of the personalities and types of people that you're likely to have to deal with. Furthermore (regardless of the company size) having a certain level of chemistry and mutual understanding is very important. Being an engineer is a communicative job and if you're not getting a good vibe during the interview, then it may not bode so well when you want to propose a new idea and generally communicate on a day-to-day basis. 2. Looking at financial statements is definitely an art more than a science, however we've been seeing a lot of issues with engineers' job offers being rescinded, and newer joiners being let go as a result of the financial situation that the world is in. I think this piece of advice was more applicable years ago, but not now and even more so with the higher interest rates resulting in VCs being a lot more careful to consider actual finance ahead of 'hyper growth'.

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Great advice as always Rahul. Always love your videos. Whether it's about dealing with a bad manager or the mistakes that engineers make. Your app is impressive as well ⭐. Keep up the great work Rahul 😸

Can attest. Switched from IT dept SWE at a no name company to Uber and the way we are treated is so different 🥲

Interesting perspective on Apple. Never thought of it that way before. I guess the one challenging question I have is that wouldn’t most tech companies (including Google, Meta, etc) have something other than engineering as its core business? For example, why would the center of gravity of Meta or Google be more towards engineering, when their prime focus (from a revenue pov) is on ads? The same way apple’s focus is more on design than engineering, couldn’t one argue that Google and Meta’s focus is more on selling ad space and catering to businesses (their prime customers) than simply building the best technology? The only examples of companies that aren’t like that, that I can think of, are companies that make money purely/mostly through selling technology to developers like AWS, Google Cloud (as opposed to google as a whole), and smaller firms like MongoDB and Databricks

What about industry? I noticed you mostly mentioned pure tech companies, but the area where I live has a majority of embedded work (automotive, defense, aerospace). After working in these fields for a few years I feel like I want to shift over to pure tech companies, and I’m wondering what kind of challenges I’ll face.

I agree with what you said. However, I am wondering if the interview bar for a core position is higher than other positions in the same domain? For example, Meta is focusing heavily on AR/VR now, so will interviewing as SWE for those roles be tougher than for SWE role which will focus on the already old/stable Facebook app?

I really liked the video. But I am slightly confused with the comparison of Meta being a Software as a core while Google being a ML as a Core Company. Doesn't both these things go hand in hand in both the companies ? For eg : Meta's products like Instagram and Facebook wouldn't reach to people if the ML part of it is not highly concentrated similarly Google Chrome as a product does disruptive things to the web which is bench mark for the Industry. You thoughts on this ?

Some good advice, some not so good. Getting a bad vibe from the manager you will get should defently be a red flag. Getting a bad vibe from in general anyone in a interview process is a red flag and I’d say its bad advice to just ignore it. People in a company that give of a bad vibe is usually a result of there being some problem at the workplace. As for not looking at financial statement well that kind of depends on how long you intend to stay. If its for the long run then a company that is viewed negativily by the market and investors is not a good idea. Being part of the core of what the company is doing is spot on though. You will get to work on the projects with the biggest budgets and where you will most likely learn and evolve the most. It can be problematic though, because what is core to a company tends to shift over time.

Would it be safe to infer that a good metric on how a company values its SWEs is by the equipment they are provided? It seems to be that SWEs are usually the most expensive resource for a company, and yet they are provided laptops with something like i5's with a single core and 8 gigs of RAM?

Hi mate, can you make a video on how internationals can work for small startups-

can you tell me about the stock refresher in big tech means what it's growth rate in different level generally.

Thoughts on Tesla for SWE?

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Yours both the point is true for me where I'm interning now ❤️ (#startup)

start your own start up and get VC funding.

Graduates need to watch this

Business >>> Job

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