I want to thank Jason publically for taking time out of his day today to get me a promotion :)

Good advice here. I've done all of these things naturally since the start of my career and my standing with a company has always been solid. Some caveats though: 1. Be curious and take ownership: Be careful not to spread yourself thin. Make sure you've already delivered on your promises before taking on new tasks. 2. Being indispensible because you're an expert with ignored/boring parts of the system: Can be a double edged sword because you can end up tying yourself down to a position, maintaining that part of the system. It could be a career killer too (e.g., testing all the time and not taking on design tasks) -- doing something that, although necessary, wouldn't impress your next employer; deciding to leave too soon and p!ss off your manager because no once can pick up your torch. As a new employee, I look for "necessary gruntwork" to establish a position on the team; it's usually a good way to learn about a system without being a team liability. I try to become an expert, even though I don't plan to work with that part of the system forever. And most importantly, I write notes that can be read as a guide for how to do the job -- that reduces friction when you go to ask your manager for more interesting tasks and put the new guy where you were. 3. Helping others: basically, be a good samariton. If you know a task assigned to your coworker is just 8 hours of mindless clerical work, offer to help. This is a HUGE and easy way to build rapport. I did this for a more senior dev and he now does not hesitate to help me out when I'm in a pickle. He'd even ask me to try to do some work for him, end up walking me through it, and then letting me have the credit.

Yes, the Bill I was referring to was Gates Update 2022: I got a third promo in a row using this advice

Thanks Jason... I'm in 2nd year doing computer science. I'm right now doing my internship and I'm sure I'm going to nail it.

dude you are a real gem, no BS gold level advices for real life situations. Thanks so much!

Thank you for these advice especially the last one. Golden.

Excellent advice in this video, incredibly useful.

Good tips, we all know these things already at the back of our minds but it's always good to have an explicit reminder to help realign your work mindset!

you are very mature in the subject of teamworking! you obvsly deserve all the promotions you get👍

Great video! being at aws, this is very in-line with a lot of the leadership principals we follow. I wish I knew this earlier in my career. Fantastic tips and outlook.

Thanks for the eye opening video! You really word your thoughts in a way that's very easy to understand!

Hi Jason, this is really good information. Thank you for sharing.

Hey Jason, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and making these videos. I'm going into uni this fall and these videos inspire me and teach me things I probably won't learn at school. Thanks again and keep up the good work!

Thanks Jason, for sharing new tips.

Thank you soooo much! 🙏 Those are really really good advice!

Thank you, Jason. It was helpful.

I'm a fan of your content ! Keep it up helps a lot

Regarding the last one, it's a double-edged sword. You never want to end up a "Brent" where you're the nexus of too much. That's an opportunity for burnout and will lower your team's overall efficiency because you've made yourself a bottleneck. If you do make yourself indispensable, keep the bus factor low and *document* what you know or what you did. Posting stuff to Slack, an internal blog, or your bugtracker isn't enough either: it should be searchable prose in a wiki or on a site built with a site generator like MkDocs, Sphinx, or Hugo, and encourage others to contribute to it and keep it up to date too.

Thanks jason for all the guidance It really motivated me

Thanks a lot about this content it's very useful ❤

I've watched a lot of youtube videos on promotions, and I have to say, this one is really powerful. I'll be using these tips and hopefully I can get a promotion!

Hey man! This was great episode. ❤️💯

Fire episode 🔥 Advice was great, real inspiring for me as an aspiring SWE!

I am just starting my journey of job hunting and my ultimate goal is Microsoft! I love your series about Microsoft! Thanks

Congratulations bro, wish you all the best 🤩

Great Advice! I'm going to apply these in my current job 🔥👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💻

very rational advices here, cheers from France.

Congrats! 🎉🎉

Thanks Jason, stumbled onto your channel when looking for programming info, glad I did, you give a lot of useful information, and I like seeing the journey of how you got to where you are. Thanks again..

I can relate to this. These are really important skills to have other than coding.

awesome Jason, ty

I never say, "It's not my fault". I say, "I told you so..." [follow the chain of emails (and other documentation)]. Then I usually say, "Just get of the way as I fix this" [I saw it coming and prepared the solution... I was just waiting until it failed so I could implement said solution]. (That's one of the ways I wrote the online permit system.) To be fair, your videos are quite helpful and I'm grateful you've created them. Props. I would point out on the subject of making yourself indispensable, it can backfire: You may end up tied to it forever and be too valuable to promote because they want you to keep working on it because you've done so well. It's the inverse Peter Principle. Once you get a reputation for maintaining something, you may never advance in your career until you get another job and quit the one you are tied down to.

You are absolutely right I have been working as backend engineer for 4 months now and I keep thanking my co-worker everyday in public and you are right They are more likely to help me if I am in the situation

Dependability, i really learned an interesting thing. thanks

Man !!! that was amazing last tip was kind of becoming powerful you know like some kind of mc in your team .... love it jason surely gonna like ,follow ,& join discord (btw i am a subscriber from when you touched 10 k) ..^_^

Great video.. thanks

Loved this! so true....

Being indispensable is my favourite tip. But I practice publicly thanking people more.

Good content, thank you! In my opinion, you, as an employee, have to be respectful and supportive as well. These two things really help and people want to communicate with you. For example, I morally supported (comforted candidly speaking) my teammate when she had some issues in her PR. She was grateful. P.S. I’ve smashed that like button. What sub would you like? A meatball one? 😂

Love your content bro, keep it up! Quick question if you do see this, I’m a second year software engineer major in university and my dream work place is Microsoft, and I wanted some tips on places I should be applying to internship for. Thank you if you do see and respond to this!

I made notes during this video. I'm doing my internship at Microsoft, and I hope it'll help me to get a full-time job :)

Amazing video

I'm currently interning at MS in Dublin. Gotta take notes. 😂

These are some big brain tips

Great tips! I’m actually going to be working at microsoft next summer for an internship! Maybe I’ll see you around haha :)

I really enjoyed this video Jason! I'm not even in university yet, so sorry if this is a bit of a stupid question. Your description of your job and what you must do to succeed at it gave me the impression that in order to succeed as a software engineer you need to dedicate nearly all of your free time to the job. Do you still have a social life outside of work? Is the sacrifice of other aspects of your life worth the money and success in the career?

3:28 This is actually a really important core principle from the book that has become the gold standard in mastering personal relationships, How To Win Friends and Influence People. "Say about yourself all the derogatory things you know the other person is thinking or wants to say or intends to say - and say them before that person has a chance to say them. The chances are a hundred to one that a generous, forgiving attitude will be taken and your mistakes will be minimized. [...] There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one’s errors. It not only clears the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error. Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes - and most fools do - but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one’s mistakes. Remember the old proverb: 'By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.' "

Great advice! I will be starting at Microsoft next year as a university hire!

Hi @Jason Goodison awesome video , I applied for Microsoft 2023 summer internship, do you have any guidance on that? How do I reach out to you on Teams.

Hi there, Jason Hi there. I'm 33 years old now, I have been working as Java Software Developer 10 years ago, then I moved into Cisco Enterprise Computer Network Engineering, after that I worked as a VMware Data Center Consultant. But, now I would like to back to Software Engineering role, I feel my passion is in the software development world. How should I do the transition?

Just having a go getter attitude is great IMO.

Hey jason Just a quick question about accountability. What if the team doesn’t say that it was teams fault. (In this case I am assuming the scenario where it actually was a fault of 2-3 members of the team) Then can we conclude that the team is toxic

Can't wait to apply these tips in my new and first ever software development role.

I actually had a situation as described in the second advise once I screwed up, although it wasn't entirely my responsibility, said it was mine and I was immediately defented by the others

9:52 that's all that will happen, coworkers will think that, but not managers. I've seen people like that leave because of realizing that their efforts have been for nothing (after a decade!), or people like that just being let go because no one besides coworkers know how indispensable they are, and they don't want to admit that to management either, because they are afraid that it would look as if they are not that good at their job as their managers think.

Do international student get an internship in the US while studying Cs Co-op in Waterloo and do they have to stay in the US for that given time period or can they do their internship from Canada itself

thank you Bruh

Hey man not gonna lie I skipped to the last tip, but I agree with everything you said about that.

The last tip is definitely the most important. One example is that I work on a team that is responsible for an old DLL API application that nobody know much about. I took it on when we had to make changes to it and now I'm the only developer on the team that knows how to work with it. I've created documentation explaining how to compile it, but nobody has any interest so it was an easy win.

How I get Promoted Every Year: I went to MIT, The End

This video is gibberish but I appreciate the effort.

I have to admit: if its your goal to be promoted every year, then this is the right way to do it, well networking might be good too but that's more like kissing ones ass instead of being valuable. But if not, don't try to follow it ad absurdum. I wouldn't work on weekends and I don't care what happens. For me that's an unbroken rule and if that means I will wait 2 years for my promotion, im fine. But if you wanna be the one who does junior to senior in 4 years, Jason's way is the one to gi

I wonder where will you get promoted after CEO Supreme ruler of tech?

hello jason, i had requested for the portfolio templates on your hired for tech site, but haven't got the template, if you would be kind enough to send me those templates that would be awesome, cheers ✌

whatta G!

New sub, sup

you studied computer science or computer engineering or sth else in university?

Oh, Bill definitely helped you.

as the last advice i really expected follow and subscribe xD

"A mindset"

Good video, I just don't get why youtubers add 2:14 in their video, does not make the video funny just distracts from the content.

Mindset shift 😉

I don't like the advice about being on-call, at least not in the long-term. There is more to life than working and being on-call is a fast track to burnout. You can always earn more money. But you can never earn more time.

Hello

Works at microsoft : "I don't know anyone named Bill". Hmmmm......!!!

single every year

Real men wear 'medium' t-shirts

He's cute tho

why algoexperts ads are made with pornstars xD x) X)

Bill gates: ...

lol works for Microsoft, doesn’t know any Bills. That was clever.

Great points but I don't agree with the details on some. Might be your team's culture, but I don't think you should have to work weekends/on call in a 40hr/wk job, especially at big tech like Microsoft, to be considered -dependable-. Also, while it could make you difficult for removal, holding knowledge of the inner-workings of a "poorly" understood area of software, does NOT make you indispensable. In fact, I'm surprised Microsoft lets teams leave themselves susceptible to such inherent risk by failing to spread the necessary technical knowledge of a product or service via documentation and distribution. Anyway, it's obvious you are young, early career, and inflated video title, but this recipe you sell overall just isn't going to hold mid or late stage in a software or any kind of career in general. Wish you the best of luck.