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- 1 weeks ago49 min
I Coached an AWS Engineer Senior to Staff (Live)
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale📘 I wrote the book on technical behavioral interviews, nearly 1,000 interviews worth of lessons in one guide. Grab it here: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-ytIf you want to be in the hot-seat for the next video like this, apply here: https://forms.gle/121P4FhVhxkBaPiq5🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! ➡️ http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=ahmed-sponsoredFor the extended conversation, become a member to this channel or join my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/alifeengineered/p/i-coached-an-aws-engineer-senior?r=2tt9s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is *chef's kiss* - https://discord.com/invite/HFVMbQgRJJ📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - https://alifeengineered.substack.com/Ahmed is an AWS senior engineer with 12 years in the industry trying to break into staff — and he has the stories to get there. A four week migration with 20 partner teams, a disagreement with a principal engineer, two years leading a project end to end.What he's missing is knowing which ones to tell and how to tell them at the right level. Steve Huynh coaches him live on the three biggest things holding him back.
- 3 weeks ago1h 8m
I Coached an Amazon Engineer From Mid-Level to Senior (Live)
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale📘 AI can write your code. It can't tell your story. Behavioral interviews are the new differentiator, and I wrote the book on them: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-ytIf you want to be in the hot-seat for the next video like this, apply here: https://forms.gle/121P4FhVhxkBaPiq5🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! ➡️ http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=dhruv-sponsored💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers. The advice section is *chef's kiss* - https://discord.com/invite/HFVMbQgRJJ📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter - https://alifeengineered.substack.com/Dhruv is an L5 engineer at Amazon with five and a half years of experience — and he's doing what 90% of smart engineers do in interviews: telling stories that sound great to him but get him down-leveled.Steve Huynh, a former Amazon principal engineer who conducted nearly a thousand interviews as a bar raiser, coaches Dhruv live on the three things holding him back: decoding what the interviewer is actually asking, picking stories that land at L6, and packaging them so the interviewer can capture his signal before the debrief.
- Apr 27, 20261h 37m
The 2% of Engineers Winning the AI Era (Ex-Meta L8)
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale📘 My book Technical Behavioral Interview hit #1 on Amazon. If you're interviewing soon, this is the playbook: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-ytGuest Links:https://linktr.ee/kunchenguidhttps://www.youtube.com/@kunchenguidhttps://kunchenguid.substack.comhttps://x.com/kunchenguid🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=kun-chen-sponsoredKun Chen reached E7 at Meta and Partner level at Microsoft faster than almost anyone his peers knew — and then walked away from management to go back to writing code. Now a solo builder, he breaks down the monthly growth test that told him when to quit, why learning to lose control as a manager made him a better AI orchestrator, and why true vibe coders will always hit a ceiling without real engineering experience underneath them.
- Apr 13, 20261h 26m
Casey Muratori Doesn’t Care About AI (Here’s Why)
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/aleGuest Links:https://www.computerenhance.com/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annarettberg/meow-the-infinite-book-three https://x.com/cmuratori🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=casey-muratori2-sponsoredCasey Muratori has spent 20 years writing code by hand and still couldn't care less about AI — not because he thinks it won't work, but because programming is the point, not the output.
- Mar 30, 202643 min
I Tried Everything to Get Hired. This Is What Worked.
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/aleGuest Links:https://www.instagram.com/anjali.gama/?hl=enhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/anjali-viramgama🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=anjali-viramgama-sponsoredAnjali Viramgama grew her online following to half a million people by turning her own learning into content, while working full time in Big Tech. Since then, she has coached hundreds of students into their first tech roles.She breaks down why “follow your passion” is bad career advice, how she applied to the same role ten different ways, and why depth of specialization — not just the ability to prompt — is what will matter most in an AI-driven industry.
- Mar 16, 202642 min
The Career Strategy That Survives AI
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/aleGuest Links:https://a16z.com/author/anish-acharya/https://www.linkedin.com/in/anishacharya🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=anish-acharya-sponsoredFrom building at Amazon in the early 2000s to selling a company to Google, Anish Acharya has spent his career chasing the edge of where the most ambitious people are working. He breaks down why enterprise software is oversold, how AI coding agents are unlocking a generation of builders, and what it takes to show up with a founder mindset no matter where you sit.
- Mar 2, 202647 min
$1.25 Billion CTO: The Career Mistake That Cost Me 9 Years
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/aleGuest Links:https://es.linkedin.com/in/tuomasartmanhttps://linear.app/about🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=tuomas-artman-sponsoredWhat separates a high-level CTO from a Senior Engineer? And what is the one mistake that can stall your trajectory for nearly a decade? Co-founder and CTO of Linear Tuomas Artman has navigated the highest levels of technical leadership and knows exactly what it takes to scale both systems and careers.
- Feb 16, 20261h 13m
OpenAI and Meta E9: The Career Bet Every Engineer Must Make
Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/aleGuest Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/suphiliphttps://molochinations.substack.com/ https://superphonic.fm/🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=philip-su2-sponsoredThe "event horizon" for software engineering has arrived, and former Meta I9 engineer Philip Su says the traditional developer role isn't coming back. Discover why your most valuable skill may no longer be writing code.
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