My Software Engineering Journey & Salaries ($$$)

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In today's video, I am unpacking the true course of a software engineer's career by using my own as an example. As a software engineer, I have witnessed the continuous evolution of this field, and how it has impacted my career. From learning new programming languages and frameworks to adopting new development methodologies and tools, the journey of a software engineer is always evolving, and staying up-to-date with the latest trends is crucial for success in this field.
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@TechWithTim Жыл бұрын

If you are looking to become a software engineer check out programmingexpert.io/tim and use code "tim" for a discount!

@yashaswikulshreshtha1588 Жыл бұрын

I don't wanna be the judgmental type, but I am more impressed by the list of things you could do at early age than the list itself. I think aptitude plays huge role in success as well especially in software engineering role. Programming concepts were beyond comprehension to me at age 12 or 14. I am 20 now and I sorta still struggle with recursion and stuff. Data structures are still hard lol. I just want to know if you had high aptitude or just hard work.

@FreeComputerTutor Жыл бұрын

Congrats on your success and thanks for sharing! I'm a semi-retired software developer thinking about starting a software KZfaq channel even though there's a lot of competition now. Any words of advice?

@rohith41 Жыл бұрын

Man When you make a video about salaries, reveal them until your current position. If you don't wan't to reveal them, please don't make videos with such description. Its called misinformation and nobody is interested in salaries 10 years ago

@ihtasham9237 Жыл бұрын

4 years ago you helped me a lot with PyGame through your tutorials and now I'm going into my software engineering summer internship

@TechWithTim Жыл бұрын

Congratulations and best of luck!

@lemastertech Жыл бұрын

Man 22 Years Old with all you've accomplished and working/coding since you were 12-14!?! I'd say you are in that class of being an anomaly too Tim! Thanks for all the info, love your channel!

@the_angler_2 Жыл бұрын

I was thought he's nearly 35

@dailyclipmafia5041 7 ай бұрын

he aint 22 lol

@clem Жыл бұрын

You've been one of the most competent people I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Here's to more collaborations and endeavors together in the future! 🥂

@paulovinicius5833 Жыл бұрын

Dude, I remember you had no beard yet when I started watching your videos. Now its 2023 and you still rocking. It is very nice to see you gone so far starting so young. Thank you, Tim. You are something else!

@karssr Жыл бұрын

Im currently in college studying IT and your tutorials help me a lot with learning stuff as extra outside of my study. Thanks a lot!

@TechWithTim Жыл бұрын

no problem! happy to help

@jubaerjami Жыл бұрын

I binge watched your JavaScript tutorial during the pandemic while trying to fall asleep just for the fun of it (the time you feel disappointed that you didn't do anything productive the whole day). It kind of motivated me a lot and fast forward to present day, I am a freelance full stack developer which enables me to earn more than medium range wage while still being a student in my country and gather a whole lot of experience by travelling and networking.

@KingdomCre8tive Жыл бұрын

Your a freelance developer self taught in less than a year? I doubt your making very much? How in the hell did u pick it up so fast

@raptoritis Жыл бұрын

Great channel! Learnt a lot from you and looking forward for more of your videos. Your journey is inspirational and it shows that success is a long journey of small steps and failures. Keep up the good work and thanks for all the added value you are generating to the YT community.

@sargata3054 Жыл бұрын

Your story is inspiring. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and insight with us. Wishing you lots of success in all your future endeavors!

@TechWithTim Жыл бұрын

Appreciate you. Wishing you the same!

@yellaomo Жыл бұрын

Your journey is so refreshing to hear. Especially as someone who is currently taking time out of their cs degree to upskill and become better and programming at my own pace and learning industry relevant skills and projects. Thanks Tim :) You should be very proud of yourself ! I always wonder what life is like for you outside of software engineering. I'm 20 so hearing you were only 22 surprised me

@ammaralbakri1705 Жыл бұрын

It shocked me too, certainly not becuase he looks like a 27 year old 😁

@Thomas-po4ex Жыл бұрын

Wow, you have done all of this by 22, amazing job. I'm behind on the grind. Got my first job in software development at 23. Every software-based job I applied to in college I was rejected for. Even after graduating with a bachelors in computer science at 22, it still took me around 6 months to land my first software engineering job and all my personal coding projects I learned with help from channels including Tech With Tim was really what got me that position, not just having the degree. Just going to keep grinding and learning as much as I can to excel in my career. I first started coding at 17 during my high school's optional Intro to Python course which really piqued my interest in the computer science industry. Can't imagine myself being so productive as you in my early/mid teens. Never even worked a job till I got into college.

@mexp984 Жыл бұрын

I've been part of your community since I started college. Thank you for all your bits of advice!!

@liveitout Жыл бұрын

I'm a mechanical engineer, about a year ago i started learning Python out of curiosity. You are one on KZfaq who has a variety of tutorial videos. I learned a lot from your videos. Thank you Tim.

@gustavobertocco554 Жыл бұрын

Hey man, you helped me a lot in my first internship with some selenium tutorials 2 year ago, so thanks!. Today I work as a Data Engineer so the hard work paid off. Wish nothing but the best for you Tim, cheers :)

@RonaldPostelmans Жыл бұрын

Hi Tim great to hear about your Journey . You are so young and yet you have accomplished a lot by working hard. You have earned, keep doing that

@DiegoMagallanes-ce5it Жыл бұрын

Shout out to you Tim! I stumbled on your videos when I was researching what I should major in college, and you got me interested in comp sci. Fast forward a couple years to now, and I’m about to leave to Washington in a couple weeks for an internship at Microsoft. Thanks man!

@maxlearningtech3423 Жыл бұрын

Been here for 3 years now, favorite youtuber, you taught me alot. Keep it up Tim🔥

@nelio3d Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the effort you've done on this channel.

@txdba Жыл бұрын

Great personal journey video displaying initiative, motivation, opportunities, personal responsibility, and work ethic, And thank you for all the great informative videos you produce. From a 62 year old programmer/DBA.

@onwukaebuka5322 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Tim, your videos inspire me every day

@carlkarl Жыл бұрын

u just 22 , man u just blown my mind off , i'm just turning 18 at august ,i have made sites(not wix kind) and applications , but at this age u did all that stuff , its mind blowing big bro , btw thanks for all your tips and advice it really does help

@theitalian94 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing such personal information. It helps further in case of where it can lead to. I'm working at the moment as web dev and am not making as much as I would like in salary. But you gave me hope that it can change with consistency. :) Kind regards

@XstahSie Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your journey, Tim. 👍

@karllouietuazon1631 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your tutorials Tim.

@64imma Жыл бұрын

I'm glad ypu made this video. I've been learning tp program for about 8 months now. I keep hearing all these "I start3d learning a programming language and 7 months later I got a job". I'm glad to hear not everybody just takes a boot camp and 3 months later lands an internship, which is what I was lead to believe would happen

@ojaypopeyee179 10 ай бұрын

Keep grinding you got this

@defidelity8711 Жыл бұрын

This is prolly the most realistic insight i've ever watched. It makes me feel more confident fr.

@MMM-yc7xu Жыл бұрын

I followed you had less than 100k subs, I even wondered why doesn’t he have 1m subs, but you were real motivation for me. I was speed-running your project’s videos and really had a lot of fun. now i’m 21 working as a data scientist in a healthcare startup.

@alimihakeem841 Жыл бұрын

Sincerely you have really work so hard and putting in much effort towards your career growth. I have really learnt alot from your python tutorial and projects ( Hoping to see more videos) I'm now planning to startup as a freelancer

@tz2014 Жыл бұрын

Moral of the story, teaching made Tim even a better programmer.

@dre429 Жыл бұрын

Wow You’re my age basically! I had no clue! Your videos are amazing and very well done. I constantly recommend my friends to check out your content! Your Django tutorials helped my complete my capstone project and if you see this I just want to thank you for your hard work!

@michazarzycki4864 Жыл бұрын

That is a great journey you had, thanks for sharing it! I always thought that programming is something I am not suited for untill I started playing around with python APIs for a specific VFX Studio software. I have done a bit of scripting and all of the sudden I became a Pipeline Dev right at 4 months since just randomly starting the python journey in the studio. Your shared knowledge helped me solve some basic and most important stuff I had to learn and now I have been oficially titled Pipeline Developer for 4.5 month at 24... I have seen that the studio was in need of a person like me that would be dedicated to integrate between softwares and databases and else. I have kind of just hopped into that. Sometimes this is all we need to start this kind of journey. Thanks Tim!

@VariusSep Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your journey and experience with us. I wish you the best in your endeavors.

@odimayodavid Жыл бұрын

Hello Tim thanks for always making these informative videos, you've been a life saver over the years, please can you make a video on unittests, like testing a fully functionally application

@Axl124124 Жыл бұрын

Great journey, thanks for sharing!

@symo_mutie Жыл бұрын

I like your story, it inspires me alot having dropped out of Uni after 3rd year of Computer Science. I hope this inspires me more in my journey of freelance.

@muffinman1 Жыл бұрын

Wow, very interesting trajectory. Hard work and grit does pay off if you place your bet correctly. Congrats.

@vlvbeats517 Жыл бұрын

I like this honest story and this really gives a good hint to people who think that landing a software job would be easy.

@kpopTv56 Жыл бұрын

I just started to learn programming and you are an inspiration thank you💗💗

@paulocerioni6375 Жыл бұрын

This is already an outlier path compared to somebody born in the US, now for me that was born in Brazil this is a completely different reality...

@Kevin.Francis1 6 ай бұрын

Man this is so inspiring! I just bought the software development course from course careers and I am so excited to learn & master this skill.

@TechWithTim 6 ай бұрын

Congrats! Let’s do it 💪💪

@ammaralbakri1705 Жыл бұрын

Hi Tim, I have been following your channel for quite some time now, ever since I was a CS student. We have had somewhat similar career paths (except for the youtube part), I started much later than you (my 2nd year while studying CS) as a C programming tutor for university students and some other courses then I advanced to harder stuff like OOP and Data Structures. I did an internship where worked on Mobile/Web App Development, two years later (senior year) I got my first real programming job as an R&D engineer where I worked on Desktop App Development. The same company made a pivot into the robotics field and I went along for the ride, started as a joiner dev, and worked my way to now becoming the lead software engineer in the startup robotics company. (I am 24 years old now) The reason I am telling you this is first: what do you think my next move should be? (new company? better role/pay?) secondly: How do you evaluate my career development so far? Is it good, slow, or just subpar? Thanks a lot for sharing your journey it has been an inspiration. Looking forward to your response.

@ismaildalhatu308 Жыл бұрын

Wow 😯 amazing video tim! Feel left out recently but this video made me realize I wasn’t! 😅

@vedkorla300 Жыл бұрын

Followed you Django course and now I have two full stack projects! Thanks!

@devchannel5232 Жыл бұрын

I would like to see some videos about system designs as a lead software developer. What are common system design patterns? What are the criterias you take for system design? What books/source do you use? etc. Thanks for your content, great work!

@lamineemb Жыл бұрын

Woaw Tim , this is what a realistic journey looks like , love it .

@CYKG2023 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Tim I started watching you back in 2018 or 2019 I seen. A lot of your videos and thank you for helping me grow in python and other areas of Software engineering! I also added you on LinkedIn and I’m currently in school for my Software Engineering degree at WGU! Thank you!

@doggomemememedog8346 Жыл бұрын

Hard work pays off, thanks for your hobby.

@bogdanvelica Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being so honest! I also follow your channel and it helped me a lot in my python programming journey (I just a bit slow, I'm in my 40's :)))

@utibeabasiumanah Жыл бұрын

I literally watched all your videos and built the projects alongside you You taught me everything I know in python and now I’ve landed a job as a DevOps engineer Thanks Tim!

@shabba194 Жыл бұрын

Very transparent and no fluff. I like

@sw-code6027 Жыл бұрын

That's is a great journey Tim, Well I remember when I was working on a large scale application for a freelance client and I was stuck somewhere. Well at that point I found your video and find out my config file was missing some settings 😆 and then everything works out fine 😁

@sukhvindersingh6185 Жыл бұрын

I feel motivated from your journey

@andrewdddo Жыл бұрын

Super awesome video mate! Good to hear about natural progression in software eng career 😅

@i.m.fin_cefiroth Жыл бұрын

thank you Tim.

@KingdomCre8tive Жыл бұрын

This proves that peoples brains r just made differently. When i was 14 dude i wanted nothing to do with school. It actually took me until 33 to go back to college man

@CalvinOnTheCoast Жыл бұрын

15 years old making $15 an hour was a great wage. The mean min wage in Canada (2014) is $10.40/hr so Id say your dad deff hooked you up! That's awesome though. Before doing full stack I was a heavy equipment operator (starting at 15 making $15/hr in Canada) also thanks to my dad until I was 27. Having connections makes a lot of difference, especially starting out. You've come far. Great work.

@lorenzo7026 Жыл бұрын

Great video 🔥

@jaylooppworld381 11 ай бұрын

when i first encountered one of your videos i got a bit depressed, i asked my gf how old she thought you was, deep down i knew you are younger than me and watching your videos and realizing how good you are, made me come to the conclusion that you may have started at a very young age, there was not other possible explanation. Am 25 and am a biological system engineer and one year ago i decided to get into programming, nowaday i have more confidence because i managed to get through pretty fast with python, even being able to build large programs of more than thousands of line of code myself, dominating modules like tkinter, customtkinter, numpy, matplotlib, sqlite, asyncio, and other just in a span of one year. in that time ive also been working 8 hour per day for a farmaceutical company, but thanks to guys like you i commited to keep pushing forward and i still watch most of you videos. So thank for being who you are man and keep sharing good contents, you are literally saving carrers .

@whonayem01 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@preciouschisom6141 Жыл бұрын

This video was really helpful... I'm actually taking the python course. It has been going very well for me. Goodluck

@OkayNoway Жыл бұрын

Wonderful video and very inspiring reality check! I got into python programming thanks to your videos. You mentioned that you are leading a team of software devs at your cofounded startup, would you please make a video about that (How to manage software development as a team)? Heard about SCRUMs and SPRINTs and would love to hear you break it down and give tips about this topic. Thanks for all the hardwork Tim! ❤

@TechWithTim Жыл бұрын

Great idea! I may do that :)

@gge6021 Жыл бұрын

starting my first software developer job next week lets go 🎉

@zak8997 Жыл бұрын

Well done bro, you are an inspiration for all millenials

@danielmawalla5986 Жыл бұрын

Inspiring me, From Tanzania, Africa here🎉

@freaklore Жыл бұрын

Great work Tim, can you tell us what programming languages you use at your current company?

@BGOPC Жыл бұрын

I remember your channel 200k, I'm now 14 and i started at 12 and i like your content

@SalahadinJr Жыл бұрын

Thanks tim from Ethiopia 🇪🇹🇪🇹

@sethbandit Жыл бұрын

is there a way for you to tell us what programming languages you knew at the various landmarks that you had? like,for example,what languages and frameworks you knew right before the microsoft intern job

@aaditmaheshwari4080 Жыл бұрын

Loving the beard man

@TechWithTim Жыл бұрын

Thanks dude!

@lsaikumar4003 Жыл бұрын

An inspirational journey

@Iamrahulhere Жыл бұрын

I am from India and I am pretty much struggling to buy a laptop or P.C. As a middle class family and also as a student really hard to buy those kinda things to learn. According to me my part time job work 500 INR for a full day or half day job (part time cause I am student) and upto latest reports 1$ = 82 INR which means my maximum income from a total full day work worth 7 dollar. And also if I need a decent P.C to learn many things it worth around 60k INR (approximately 730+ $). As per the conclusion that if I need to buy a lap or P.C I should work most probably 106 minimum full day work and for a student the only off days are Saturdays and Sundays what a trash situation. Sorry to said this😶 I mentioned those things here cause you earned about 15$ per hour at 2014 as a mid school student highly appreciable growth man hats off to your dedication ❤

@unknown__user__800 Жыл бұрын

Keep grinding,wish you luck😊

@infinitygod5379 Жыл бұрын

What a trash country lol

@Iamrahulhere Жыл бұрын

@@unknown__user__800 💯 with hope 🙌🏻

@user-ze8ey3rq4p Жыл бұрын

Man ngl tim lookin like a Chad with that beard💪

@JeyPeyy Жыл бұрын

pleaaase finish the Rust series, I really want to see your take on the borrow checker.

@deepanshsharma4342 Жыл бұрын

Can you tell something about how you came up/made with the cool intro animation?

@algeriennesaffaires7017 Жыл бұрын

This video is great. You're not like some youtubers who sell fake dreams to get more viewers by laying about how easy it is to get to 6 figures salary thank you

@bashiirabdirahman1823 Жыл бұрын

aweasome journey

@bakhtiyor_sulaymonov Жыл бұрын

wow, 22years old. quite impressive

@saami9606 Жыл бұрын

omg ur 22?! wooooow! amazing

@justin9494 Жыл бұрын

dude acts like he's not an anomaly

@swiftpy 10 ай бұрын

Dude... I'm a machine learning engineer and researcher, also i do software development web and mobile apps... Even i have 6 machine Learning and AI Projects for the bank i'm working for. i think since 2004 i was into development, but because i'm in the middle east, i'm unable to find a job in the field. I don't have time to build my own project, since i'm working as a full time banker and in the afternoon i'm working on my ML research. Hopefully it will be published by the end of this year. I hope to find a job in machine learning soon.

@thejuanlucas2 Жыл бұрын

Bro you're 22???? I'm 21 and i've been following your videos to learn 😢

@muhammadabdullah398 Жыл бұрын

Hi Tim Do you think one should go to university for getting software engineering jobs or just learn skill ?

@psnisy1234 9 ай бұрын

Wow, the most shocking thing is how young you are. I thought you were at least 25 and I even thought that was a low-balling it.

@leohenrique5038 Жыл бұрын

Hello Tim, i am frm Brazil, you are amazing, in your opinion what the reason for learn fast and can developer applications, do you guess possible developer big application staying in house or for evolution in developing of software need work in some place?

@chrisplacktor1992 Жыл бұрын

Hi Tim Great video! Which video editing software do you use

@theitalian94 Жыл бұрын

probably final cut or adobe premiere :)

@chrisplacktor1992 Жыл бұрын

@@theitalian94 thank you

@t-ree Жыл бұрын

I am a 16 years old studying in a school. I started coding when I was 10. I want to be a software engineer :D

@aname4931 Жыл бұрын

Moral of the story: be lucky and have family in the right place 🤷‍♂️

@tyronemguni3895 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂Not Tim going "I will give you realistic expectaions", Tim also going, "I was a developer at 14" Bloody hell😂😂

@raeestheviewer224 Жыл бұрын

His first job was at 14. He started coding from 12 😂

@franc_pro Жыл бұрын

Interesting 🎉

@countmindlos Жыл бұрын

Lol I feel so bad right now, exactly 2014, I could have been interning as a Software Engineer, but 😂 I wasted time learning Accounting only to come to SE early this year.

@abdullaharshad4875 Жыл бұрын

Tim looks great in beard.

@puncher939 Жыл бұрын

What programming language do they use at the current job?

@KunalKumar-dz4kb Жыл бұрын

I want to ask you a question I've seen some SWE/Web Dev job listings that don't require experience or a college degree in programming, are these jobs viable?

@CasperWest Жыл бұрын

What do you recommend to learn for someone working with fast api?

@AstraGamesStudios Жыл бұрын

Hey Tim! i want to get a job in that kind of stuff (cyber security, software engineer, etc.) but how do i get my first job? I am at that point and don't know how to really get into it. I have made videogames in Unity for a couple of years now using C# and i have a little experience in python and just a tiny in HTML and Java. I am also trying to decide if I should go to college for a degree or certificate or if that is unnecessary. Thank you for all of the great content you consistently post and for any input you have.

@alexpanta7342 10 ай бұрын

If I can give an idea certificates are good but expensive. Degrees are a big investment and learning by your self is challenging. What you should do is find what you truly like ( full stack, Devops, blockchain, cyber security) and stick to it. If you have any financial help you can attend a bootcamp to give you as a degree thé knowledge that you know some tools. Or you can go and do a Cs degree. All solutions will lead to that kind of job. You just need to find what to study and how to study it ;)

@AstraGamesStudios 10 ай бұрын

@@alexpanta7342 thank you so much for the tips!

@coolmonkey619 Жыл бұрын

Your 22 impressive mate

@Bllrr Жыл бұрын

And then there’s me. Almost 24 and haven’t even began my cs degree (starting in a few days)

@almightysun7407 Жыл бұрын

@Tech With Tim hi, why i can't install NPM when i try do it. task ask me password i tryed wrote NPM one time code but he dont work? Its some bug or what?