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You have no idea how much I valued this video. Despite having a great GPA I still struggle with coding and understanding DSA, I graduate in 7 months and this video gave me tons of perspective and motivation. Thank you!

At 32, I switched fields from graphic design to engineering. Last year, I was laid off and got into a car crash which resulted in injuries. I then enrolled in a university for a computer science degree and achieved a 3.0 GPA for the semester. I began coding in Python and my goal now is to secure a job in agriculture.

You don't actually suck at coding. You just didn't get A for school courses which are barely a reflection of real work. You choose to focus on real-world projects that's why u got chosen. Many of my friends did the same. Sacrificed their GPA by taking internships or focusing on personal projects

I'm struggling with fear of failure, of embarrassing myself. Thank you so much for this video, just what I needed!

You rock Pooja! :) People that never give up like this are truly amazing. I have the same mindset. I believe things are possible even when people tell me I cant or its too hard.

Truly motivating, Low CGPA in my bachelors is killing me though I have completed many complex projects. Thank you Pooja for sharing your journey.

Thank you! It helps me being a 3rd year undergrad. It gives me extra surge to stay longer with problems to find solutions, repeating and revising.

I had a 2.9 GPA, and only took intro to computer science as my only related tech class. 3 weeks ago I built an LLM-based capacitive search function. Your grades are not always a reflection of your talent.

What an awesome way to start my year. too many thing to relate to. Thank you so much for sharing such geniue and honest experiences. Understanding that its a journey rather than a destination is my take away. Thank you so much

Thank you immensely for the uplifting and insightful content you consistently provide Pooja. Your dedication to sharing knowledge and inspiration is truly motivating for us all. Keep doing what you're doing 👍🏼👍🏼!

Bout to start my software eng apprenticeship with Microsoft next week, my foot into the tech industry. Quite nervous about it but this has been a boost of confidence, so thank you.

I am trying to get my first certification in CyberSec, and this was very motivating. Thank you very much!!! Your content is great. Happy 2024!

These are really good advice delivered with humor. You are so creative that I have to subscribe!

You've skipped the MOST IMPORTANT part of how you've got your first developer job? was it a large company or small-mid company ? The process of finding a job is easy once you've got some kind of real work experience.

Watched two of your videos and I love the content that you post. Nice to share the struggles and the outcome of your hard work. Keep up the good work.

Really love your story-telling, Pooja! And the funny cutaways! 😄It's obvious you put a lot of thought into this video. I'm curious... And I hope that you might make a video about it someday? How do you balance KZfaq and working in tech. I'm really into photography. Absolutely love it. I also really love coding and have been working on a couple of personal projects and thinking of trying to get a SWE job. I really wanna excel at both. How do you do it?

Thanks Pooja!, your video gave me a new perspective as I'm currently job hunting .. on a side note: appreciate the effort of Andres and Brain too lol

Loved that you were so vulnerable and honest... this is super encouraging

This makes me grind for my dream company ! Thanks a lot Pooja, Love from India!!

Pooja!! i loved this video, thanks for being so real.

Well made! Congrats on your journey too!

the editing in this is soooo good! Also Pooja, what mic and camera are you using to record this? Thanks so much

THIS VIDEO IS SO MOTIVATIONAL! THANK YOU SO MUCH

Lot of these people who are too proud to have landed a job at MAANG and terrible at coding during the 2021 free money boom turned out to be a huge drag on real tech members. They get work done through "asking questions" even after being in the team forever and forget that the brain was given by God to be used. They eventually get into management(usually project management which is least technical) in a couple of years through their work relationships without knowing * and being unable to contribute what they should be.

Grateful to find this video. Was looking for this

I have 8.7 CGPA till 5th semester of BCA & I still stuck at coding 🤣 Gonna share this video with my friends for motivation

Thanks, that was very inspirational.

I wish I had seen a video like this in 2006. I focused on my 2.9 GPA rather than my 3.5 in CS classes and the fact that I had a professor who graduated MIT who would vouch for me. This is seriously one of the best videos about breaking into big tech. So many you get halfway in just to realize the guy was a physics/math double major from Carnegie Mellon who spent 6 months straight doing LeetCode then wrote an AI to solve LeetCode.

Thankyou so much...your story always inspiring me...I am really bad at coding now I see some little light ...& Little hope to restart it....thanks ...❤❤..one question what kind of project we should add in our resume...

Pooja i loved the video thanks for being so RReal.

Thank You for Sharing your success story with us you have such nice content. Appreciated!

Ive had one year of experience and been looking for 16 months since that ended. During that job my brain would just freeze, it wouldnt let me connect the dots I needed to actually problem sole or do anythinbg, and the few small things I managed to do were painfully slow. I dont know how to fix it and it just gets harder and harder to find a job or program again. Thats okay though cause at this point I cant get the experience to get better because no one out there will give me a job. I just dont live in a tech hub and cant move to one.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

i like your energy and you make video in funny way really i love it!

I’m currently taking comp sci 1 and I always envisioned myself in these scenarios lol

Thank you Pooja, thank you so much for this vid a lot 😇

this video reminds me of this great book on amazon, From Failure to Fortune : Unveiling Success in Setbacks

Great message!

I'm seriously bad at logic building idk what should i do 😭

Let’s Go Puuja!!!! You got me into coding 2 years ago and Other KZfaqrs

I still suck at coding too haha - Great Video Pooja

nice macbook throw in the beginning :), hoping that thing still works :)

Great video!

omg.. i relate a lot to you, and those questions in early office days..btw love your videos fun and knowledge..kudos to youu

Thank you so much. This video is so relatable. Its amazing

the way you rolled your sponsor !!! man, you have got some creativity, don't you ??? enjoyed this video 🤣🤣

😢 thank you ❤

I am a girl in CS and I'm struggling too. Even tho I am very good at Math and physical sciences, I still can't figure out how to study CS properly?

thanks! ❤

This is so motivating! Good luck.

my cgpa is low , also i am not good at coding but also not bad at coding .. what should i do , I am final year student of cs major

I would like to switch from Tech support to SWE

love you

Thx 🙏🏾 ❤

I just saw this video a few weeks ago and it boosted my confidence in learning coding. I'm self taught and I'm still training myself in Python but it feels really depressing when I can't solve a coding challenge.

Amazing, Thanks for this video!😊

Can you do a video about efficiently finding internship opportunities?

I really want to know what kind of coding you do

Pattern interrupts go crazy

Hello Pooja Thank you for this video. It really taught me a lot. Currently I'm an undergrad of computer science. Already a software developer. I still want to go higher into the industry. I really wish if there's a community by you that I can join maybe on slack to get more close to you ma'am. If you don't mind, I'm always open to learn and grow.

THANK YOU !!❤ I've been lost

what an inspiring journey Pooja that you've shown us through this video! Thanks so much, really needed something like this _/\_

Hello, I live in Turkey, my biggest dream is to be a good software engineer in the future and I want to work in big companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google, etc. Is this possible in Turkey or what conditions are required?

Brought down production...been there, done that

What About AI Automation and Cutting Off Work Forces in Big Tech like Google & Paytm .

I cant even seem to be able to land a job right now. I do not know what to do anymore. I have been job hunting for 9 months now.

Good video!! 1 year in and i have no idea what im doing 😢

Did you attend Grad school or did you get your job with just your bachelors degree?

Stop click baiting ffs

i love you

How did u learn how to code ?

Very cute words! Very motivational. Congrats.

You are working for Microsoft and you own apple laptop? :D How does that work for you? (I am a sucker for apple, but I am afraid to get away from Windows!)

No matter how scared u r to fail, ur still gunna fail either ways😂it’s just a matter of not giving up. I’m currently a welder, who’s learning front end dev, and I’ve been at my company for 1yr and 8mo. I really struggled for about a year. Every single day I would mess something up and had to gouge out the welds. One day I got a big beam that I had to finish welding. Weighed about 5,000+ lbs and the end plate that bolts to the ground ended up warping on me due to heat added from the welding despite it being 3/4” thick. It had 1/2” welds that I had to gouge out and cut the plate off in order to fix the warp somehow. After doing all that QC (quality control) told me to look at the beam and compare it to the blueprint. I welded the god damn plate backwards. I had to gouge that shit out again and fix it. All that took 5 days to fix. A 10hr beam turned into 40hrs worth of work. Best bet my production was shit and all the welders were talking shit about me💀now my quality is the best in the shop and even now I’m scared of fucking something up but it’s bound to still happen. I fucked up so many god damn times and wanted to tear my hair out and just quit for the day but I kept going. Now I’m just chillin at work stress free with an average of 103% production for January. And for December I only had 2 quality points as well as for November. As a bench mark, u get 3 points if ur missing 1 weld. 1 point if u didn’t clean ur welds properly and 2 points if there’s porosity, as an example. You can easily rack up points for any small thing.

Pretty sure you have made this video before. If you need ideas, would love more content on your work at Microsoft (as much as you can reveal without causing NDA issues) , there is an endless stream of content there - and I don't mean the day in life of stuff. Like actual work related - projects, how you pick them, can you pick them, how you document, do you document, tools, beauracracies, salary negotiations, promotions, updating stuff, etc I say this as a big fan of you , don't mean to be negative , just that this video is redundant. Here is a link to your older video on this - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdxymrNzu8nOdYE.html

Brian and Andres made me laugh at 6:47 😂😂

What do you all think about Bootcamps.

you know that 2.6 cgpa was a clickbait for me lol cuz mine is 2.45. so i will watch the entire video now lol

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Omg 😱 the moment the transcript showed up I was like "waaait the format looks exactly the same... could it be... OMGGGG it IS, it says UW-MADISON at stop, that's literally my university I'm at right now!"

😂 graduated college with a GPA 2.3.. Have been programming with Fortune 500 companies for over 10 years... You don't need to be a Top Student to flourish in the software industry. Coding a skill, not an academic measure... Thanks for sharing.😊

0:01 RIP for MacBook 💻😢

This is good stuff.

RAM is like a potato in the computer's soup😂😂

Mera to shortlist hi nhi ho rha Microsoft me interview keliye😂

can you tell the movie name please that little guy(nasa)

u got into microsoft because it was 2022 tech hiring boom, if u were a year later I’d highly doubt you would

can you please tell or make a video on how to succeed in an internship? In my case, I have made a few basic projects by following youtube tutorials, but in a company, we need to make things ourselves right?, how to make a habit or practice doing that?

Bruh, this was awesome. Did you work a job when you were in high school or in college?

what is gpa?

Are you sure you can code now better? It's just there are a lot of indians who accept indians for a job. So basically the indian manager took the indian girl. I worked with many indians and have never seen a good developers. Maybe it was my luck, idk, but it seems to me my experience is trending

I thought coding is over, dose not AI code now ?

This makes me feel marginally better about graduating my CS degree with 2.5 GPA.

2024 high paying skill job video!!

HELLO POOJA LOVED YOUR VIDEO I WANTED TO ASK THAT I AM NEW TO CODING SHOULD I LEARN JAVA OR KOTLIN OR BOTH?❤❤

I think you have to focus on quality of the topic instead of story telling and other stuff then your videos are more helpfull.

Can you tell me your gpa?

• don’t ask questions - ever. got it 😂😂😂

I’m sure your good looks helped you as well