Stop Wasting Your Time As An Engineer

Stop Wasting Your Time As An Engineer - 4 Traps To Avoid

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The most common misconceptions we see among new engineers, inspired by Alex's article. / 5-common-traps-junior-...
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Tutorial hell
1:41 - Certificate collection
3:24 - The "perfect" technology
4:34 - Building in secret
6:15 - What we're exploring + building
7:31 - Wrap up
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@dbroche 2 жыл бұрын

Where is the applause button? Rahul, this channel is an invaluable resource. Love that your focus is soft skills & leadership in tech. It’s exactly what’s missing from the industry. Good show! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@besverjin5130 2 жыл бұрын

Agree wholeheartedly

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much 🙏🏽

@sagaruv 2 жыл бұрын

So true.

@dbroche 2 жыл бұрын

@@RahulPandeyrkp you are very welcome. See you on the next one!

@captainmichaelj2321 2 жыл бұрын

I love your content, as an independent self-taught developer still learning the ropes, I cannot resonate more. I feel that every point you mention in this video is hitting the spot and this is definitely helpful for myself and others. Looking forward for more videos from you.

@suvraneelsaha8973 2 жыл бұрын

your videos keep on getting better and better over time .

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

Check out the Taro apps to accelerate your software engineering career! jointaro.com/

@aldrinseanpereira140 2 жыл бұрын

I came here for the amazing content Rahul and Alex provide. Thank you guys!!

@tamalchowdhury 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the video quality and your advice.

@thedankest1974 2 жыл бұрын

I love this channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Would also love some more technical videos.

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

thank you

@LukeAvedon Жыл бұрын

Dude, your advice is amazing.

@GagandeepSinghKundi 2 жыл бұрын

This was so valuable. Specially the tutorial part.

@utkarshkukreti239 2 жыл бұрын

Really liked your content. Thank you

@sakshigupta7616 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are amazing ! I also find your voice soothing. Thanks a lot for the knowledge sharing.

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

thanks Sakshi

@gabrielfono844 Жыл бұрын

This guys is literally great and amazing.

@pratyakshyt 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing content as always

@michaelkennedy5126 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this thought-provoking video. I found your "pick a lane" around 4:10 the most useful. Grazie

@Kenbomp Жыл бұрын

Suggest sharing with a coworker or friends first then small knit online community. Or start doing stuff to help your coworkers.

@kyzmitch2 Жыл бұрын

This is so true, I realised that when I decide to start development for my own Web Browser, which is a big project which at least could give you an opportunity to learn a lot of things from the scratch

@itskd9808 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@lukeyd13 Жыл бұрын

I wish I had this channel when I was a younger engineer, great content

@victorsokoluik4573 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the greate information you are sharing with us.

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching 🥰

@theophilus494 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this

@beingcheercool 2 жыл бұрын

1. Only Follow 1 Tutorial After Completion Start Building On Your Own 2. You excecution matters most not certificate 3. No perfect technology exists Use What You Learned In Efficient Way 4. Reach Out To People Ask Them Guidance Don't Maintain Secrecy I think that what we should do 🤗 Thanks for amazing video 🙂

@angelmotta 2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate your advices!! Thanks for sharing! I am following you along with the mobile app and taking notes on paper about these valuable advices!! Greetings from Perú Rahul !!

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

awesome, we're planning to make many more improvements to the mobile app soon!

@ubaidkhan426 2 жыл бұрын

Covered all of my misconceptions 👍

@anubhavsinghal1535 2 жыл бұрын

no need of 'Tareef' anymore.....u already know that u r the best!loads of love!!!❤

@LEO-jx3rb 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great tips Rahul! Regarding learning a new language / technology / foundations, do you typically make and keep notes? If you do, could you share the strategy that helps you quickly learn the subject matter and also increases the retention of memory? Thanks!

@browntechdaddy 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome insights as always. On the same topic as time, what's your opinion on the 9-5 workday or 40-hour workweek? Would love to see a video addressing these concepts.

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

nice idea, will add it to the list!

@michaelbarbarelli3764 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic content, Rahul. As one of your first 50K subscribers, I feel like an early adopter of a killer app, or someone who is in on a secret that will be out soon.

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael!

@AliHassan-dc4ij 2 жыл бұрын

Rahul, your today's video is outstanding! This video answered a huge bag of questions I had and fortunately, the answers give some sense of motivation👍 Now I am working on my project and I watch some tutorials just to get started with something new to me and then continue flying myself throw StackOverflow and Google. Thanks again for the extraordinary video!

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

glad to hear that Ali

@vaibhavdasharathe1599 2 жыл бұрын

hey i had this q for long time, do you look above camera while shooting? 😅 it looks something different🤔. kudos to topic you choose to talks on 💯

@nikinsk 2 жыл бұрын

100% true. Epic video, I made a lot of tutorials for those who don't know to program. I recommend extending every tutorial yourself.

@sidkapoor9085 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Could you please expand a bit on the learning in public part?

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

that means trying to share your progress (e.g. in the Tech Career Growth community or on Twitter) and connecting with people who can support you as you build it

@joshua_dlima 2 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate you making this video, I would love to know if you'd recommend a student (pursuing a bachelor's or equivalent) to focus on building stuff constantly as well or focus on problem-solving (DSA and stuff).

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

the ideal would be to build stuff, and as a byproduct of that, you actually do something algorithmically interesting. but that's hard to do, so there is a balancing act in reality

@skyhappy 2 жыл бұрын

I subscribe to around 10 high quality educational channels. When I see a new one from this channel, I click it first among all new subscriptions.

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

So glad to hear that 🙏🏽

@midknight3350 Жыл бұрын

I'd say the one positive thing about a certificate of completion is that it tells the employer that this applicant went through a course and at least has the knowledge of how this thing works. But if there are no projects in their portfolio, it shows they did nothing with what they learned. I've yet to get a certificate of completion, and I am working on it, but I've already built a program to make part of the process at work much faster and my branch manager has given me a couple challenges to increase my value

@kevinzunigacuellar 2 жыл бұрын

Great video

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

thanks Kevin

@IkeVictor 2 жыл бұрын

geezus i feel like you literally reading my mind haha...i feel into all of these traps my first few years as a developer

@the_man_without_fear__ 2 жыл бұрын

Helpful

@kaal970 2 жыл бұрын

this is so true and hits deep ...i remember how many times i quit programiing ... and whatever u said in this video is 100% true .. i have been through this ... and it would help youngster .... what youngers see in the movies and twith live stream programmers is a fiction they prepare for that task or algoritm ...their are very few programmers who are awsome ....examples MOSH HAMEDANI, clement and coder train .....but they have years of experience.. do not blame your self they have been programing at the age of 12 ... we as a normal being starts getting familiar at age 20 22 ...and it would take at least 2 years in you train 8 hours per day solving 100 questions per day

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

exactly!

@paulkim244 2 жыл бұрын

I love this guy!

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

🥰🥰

@nilanjansarkar100 Жыл бұрын

Certifications are really not that helpful in evaluating a candidate.Thanks Rahul for calling it out!

@hehanster Жыл бұрын

hi Rahull, about building in secret: what advise can you give on how to deal with people who steal ideas & also end up doing nothing but taking credit for something that you did or built. most of these people are good at taking a system that you built and writing a blog about it. I've had this happening a lot and now I no longer feel like sharing anything.

@royirawan3534 2 жыл бұрын

Finally i can saving my time, lets build some apps!!

@ElonMusk-ez5xz 2 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video on what to look for in a team during boot camp phase in meta? I understand this is a niche area, but maybe you can generalize it to what’s most important in growing as a dev? Is it working on impactful projects? Having a good manager/colleagues? Etc. I’m really grateful to you and this channel! :)

@ElonMusk-ez5xz 2 жыл бұрын

this commenter and I have no association

@skyhappy 2 жыл бұрын

@@ElonMusk-ez5xz What does "boot camp phase in meta" mean?

@ElonMusk-ez5xz 2 жыл бұрын

@@skyhappy so meta has this thing called bootcamp, where once you’re hired you have the ability to select which team you’re going to work with. So I was wondering if rahul has any tips on how to go about selecting this team. Like what should one look for in a team? Is it the project? The teammates? The manager? The scale? Etc.

@skyhappy 2 жыл бұрын

@@ElonMusk-ez5xz did you get into that? How did you get in? Or what do you think about you helped to get in?

@ElonMusk-ez5xz 2 жыл бұрын

@@skyhappy Yes, got into meta recently. Since my role is software engineer, a lot of the practice was just leetcode and just knowing my resume thoroughly. I also used pramp for mock interviews, and it's pretty helpful.

@sandeepv933 2 жыл бұрын

1st point on target 🙌🏻

@IkuMasterLink 2 жыл бұрын

So true, I can identify myself with the Tutorial Hell; I did one tutorial for making a snake game on Pygame a few months ago. I did follow trough until the very end AND THEN I wondered myself if there could be a way for implementing an in-game shift from let's say "normal mode" to a "hard mode" wich would be automatically activated when you reached a certain score. For this "hard mode" I wanted the graphics and the music/sounds to suddenly change into something more menacing and the snake to start moving faster and faster after each food collected. I had to work around those ideas pretty much all by myself looking here and there into the pygame documentation for guidance but not for the exact answer. Long story short I ended writing my very first own methods and even defined a class that was nedeed in order to acomplish what I wanted to do with the game. It's so true that the real learning beggins when you "let go the hands of your teacher".

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

inspiring story, thanks for sharing!

@vimarshkoul930 2 жыл бұрын

Although it might seem very obvious and simple but I am certain that almost everyone is guilty of at least one of these things during their college days. Great video Btw.

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

thanks Vimarsh

@sandipansarkar9211 Жыл бұрын

finished watching

@adeceptikon 2 жыл бұрын

Bohot sahi video pandey ji. 4th point is very important. But how to find willing collaborators for your project OR projects to collaborate on???

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

join the Tech Career Growth community :)

@o_lee_0133 2 жыл бұрын

I was honestly disappointed when the video ended. I could listen to Rahul share from his wealth of knowledge and experience all day!

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🙏🏽

@iOSAcademy 2 жыл бұрын

100% agreed. Even though I make tutorials 😉 Take off those training wheels!

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

that's both of us! nothing wrong with training wheels to get started though

@_jko 2 жыл бұрын

Great content. I need some help with career growth now that I have a career, and you're doing a great job at helping. One nit pick: it's "Alex and me" when you're the subject of the sentence. Example: "Alex and **I** went to an ice cream shop. The cute cashier gave Alex and **ME** another scoop of ice cream for free." In the second sentence, the cashier is doing something, and something is being done TO you.

@RahulPandeyrkp 2 жыл бұрын

My mistake. The rule I remember is to drop the other person and see if the sentence still makes sense, e.g. "Alex and I went to an ice cream shop" is correct b/c "I went to an ice cream shop" is also correct. Will be mindful of this going forward.