A Day In The Life Of A Microsoft Software Engineer (/w Real Code)

This is a day in the life of a Software Engineer at Microsoft.
Let me know what you would like to see next!
Chapters:
0:00 - Alarm
0:08 - Langauge Learning
0:39 - Start Work
0:48 - My Desktop
1:13 - What my team does
1:39 - Standup
1:54 - Code Reviews
2:46 - Workout
3:26 - Real Code Example
8:13 - Walk
8:28 - Amenities
8:55 - Personal work
9:14 - Cooking
LinkedIn: / jasonlevigoodison
Instagram: / jasongoodison
Github: github.com/JasonLeviGoodison (Leetparty projects here)
Discord: / discord
**DISCLAIMER**:
Tech Inturn was prepared or accomplished by Jason Goodison in his personal capacity. The opinions expressed in this video are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Microsoft, Waterloo, or its affiliates.

[@JasonGoodison]

Hope you guys enjoyed this DITL. Please like this video if you enjoyed it cause it helps me out a lot! Chapters: 0:00​ - Alarm 0:08​ - Langauge Learning 0:39​ - Start Work 0:48​ - My Desktop 1:13​ - What my team does 1:39​ - Standup 1:54​ - Code Reviews 2:46​ - Workout 3:26​ - Real Code Example 8:13​ - Walk 8:28​ - Amenities 8:55​ - Personal work 9:14​ - Cooking

[@YashPJoshi]

Nice content sir!

[@YashPJoshi]

Sir, can you please tell where one might find the prerequisites for becoming a Microsoft software engineer ? Does the website contain the information? Like which languages, skills are top priority etc. One is JavaScript...in the Real Code Example.

[@hgdfihdjk]

Microsoft legal lets you work on the side?

[@yagami-light]

Finally an engineer whose day in life mostly contains of work and writing code instead of just eating freebies 80% of times or showing off office infrastructure in other nonsense day in life videos

[@JasonGoodison]

Thanks for the sub! Excited to see you around more :)

[@NoOne-ev3jn]

Agree

[@simondungeon1218]

This is a no nonsense day in the life video, not the typical ones. Great video 👏👏

[@carlosmspk]

The fact you have to include "w/ Real Code" in the title of a "day in the life of a software engineer" video says loads about all other videos of this format.

[@truetoyou9764]

This has to be the first honest Day in the life vid. I'm glad to see someone more interested in grinding instead of walking to the breakroom to collect snacks. Keep it up, man.

[@JasonGoodison]

Thanks! Glad to share a real day in the life 😊

[@MarksyS387]

just stumbled onto your channels. your content is great! no nonsense and straight up honest

[@ankitbatra270]

Awesome video! Was cool to understand what the workflow is really like.

[@whiskey4609]

I love that in big companies you get to be focused on one part of the code base. At my small company we have like 6 apps we have to rotate through and maintain. You end up being a jack of all trades and master of none. Would love to just stick to one app for once and just know the ins and outs of it and improve it. But I work for non tech company so its really just pushing feature after feature no time for making things better. Awesome video looking forward to watching the working in Hawaii it's making me think I could just do this every few months as well, see the world while I work sounds really nice right about now as I work remotely.

[@shangguanwang3982]

Thank you, I came to fill my curiosity of software engineering and ended up booking a Itakki lesson :)

[@JasonGoodison]

Haha glad to hear it. I hope you ALSO satisfied your curiousity of Software Engineering

[@J90JAM]

Everybody else: * Laptop stand * Jason: 🤷‍♂️ * Shoebox *

[@JasonGoodison]

I put it down as "resourceful" on my resume

[@jaxonterrill8416]

great video. Keep it up man

[@adarshchhokar3818]

Great, awesome vid

[@An-Engineered-Journey]

Dude is a software engineer at a tech company, and puts his laptop on a Nike shoe box 😂

[@drevestedt]

Really nice DiTL video, down to earth and without the normal stupid fluff that often occurs in DiTL videos.

[@JasonGoodison]

Glad you liked it!!

[@tiagoaicapital]

great video

[@R4ngeR4pidz]

I'm not really sure if you should disable the button, changes that were made could also have a negative effect and accidentally remove info that was supposed to be there Maybe instead it would be worth it to save where the scrollbar/page nr was when the box was checked, so it can be easily reviewed (store that for every checked box) (maybe even do a diff between those areas so you can alert the user that there were changes made to that section since they last reviewed it (starting to feel like github code reviews as I'm writing this haha)

[@huaweihonor7714]

Merrel setup, simple & functional, outstanding,

[@JasonGoodison]

Thanks!

[@Kyle-ll9hs]

Real code !!! Love that 👍

[@JasonGoodison]

Thanks!! :)

[@aesopdemoor7595]

so code is already there , you just have to assemble the idea, big woop!

[@darkwoodmovies]

"Get some sun" in Seattle. Also, I don't imagine that city was any different before or during COVID lol

[@joaopauloalbq]

You are kind of crazy using Mac and showing blue screen of death. I like you.

[@Sonny0276]

Great Video. Thank you for posting. Please get a laptop stand. Plenty of good laptop stands online.

[@JasonGoodison]

One of these days 😂

[@vksharma4180]

Very nice video

[@omontes]

Shoes box is the most amazing gadget I've ever seen 😂😂

[@reprovedcandy]

5:47 thank you for showing your typos. A lot of times i feel like i must be slow mentally cause of the sheer # of typos I make. I compare myself to these coding youtubers who seem to type with flawless perfection at god speeds. Seriously, thank you for showing your typos.

[@trotts1221]

great day in the life video

[@JasonGoodison]

Thank you! 😁

[@spacesuitred3839]

your apartment looks amazing

[@JasonGoodison]

Thanks! Costs an arm and a leg :cry:

[@thestreamer1481]

nice video any chance to know what stack u work with at MS and on ur side hustle ?

[@agentlonestar007]

I'm a Linux user, but it's still cool man. Good job.

[@nyctinasty4991]

Would you mind sharing what level you are? or YoE? Great video btw. Finally "a day in the life" video done right!

[@JasonGoodison]

Level 60 which is 1 level above level of entry. It's 1 promotion below SWE 2 at Microsoft!

[@AdamWong]

Wtf ur apartment gym is fire

[@JasonGoodison]

Pretty much why I decided to live here

[@annazhou4672]

I just watched a lot of your waterloo videos. I just got into system design co-op at Waterloo, but a lot of people are saying (even you) said that it is just a cs job waiting for you at the end. So Would it even be worth it to attend and just go to a cs program?

[@JasonGoodison]

Don't make any rash decisions! I don't know everything and I could certainly be wrong. What I suggest you do is attend the program you chose and then make your decision. At the very least you will meet people via the cohort system and then get to transfer into cs with many friends. (That's what Bo Peng did in his famous SWE vs CS article). For now, don't stress. Congrats on getting in! Celebrate and enjoy 🎉🎉

[@annazhou4672]

@@JasonGoodison Aw thanks for the fast reply! Love your videos, my brother also used to work at Microsoft but now he works at discovery and he is a software engineer II. You remind me of him. in a good way. He supports me a lot.

[@JasonGoodison]

Thanks I appreciate the complement 🙂 I'm glad you have a supportive brother to help you along the way

[@Grind_or_Die]

Hey man did u get the march admission? I was wondering how good ur application was cuz im ac stressed man idk if they will accept me for the may round I applied to mechatronics with 96+ average and quite some ecs but they haven't given me admission 😭 im waiting on the may round

[@annazhou4672]

@@Grind_or_Die I don't think you have to worry, I got in with a 90 average. In addition, I did fast-track my math by one year so I would be able to finish calculus by the first sem this year. I also finished physics and chemistry in the first semester and the only course I am completing this semester is English. So that is one of the hugest factors. They probably just want your midterms for all the major grade 12 courses, even if you have all the grade 11 ones. So with a 96 average, bra that's super good man, good job and ur ecs are good.

[@justcurious1940]

what programming language do u use the most ?

[@pieterspruijt2]

imagine not using github copilot as a mincrosoft employee

[@jeroku18]

Es un buen video, aunque tengo una duda! Que tipo de lenguaje de programación hay que saber para entrar a trabajar a microsoft?

[@JasonGoodison]

Nosotros usamos C# el mayoria del tiempo so I would recommend learning that!

[@jeroku18]

@@JasonGoodison Oh, esta bien! Gracias por tu tiempo 😊

[@deflect3658]

4:30 what's the vs code theme name ?

[@_brillz]

😍 knex all the way...

[@ericnyamu9981]

Oh.that was funny @1:37

[@JasonGoodison]

Glad you liked it!

[@georgecop9538]

3:35 You don't need to show any code. Ada and IlSPY are w/ me.

[@jackeysanimalstudy7239]

thx for teaching me tech make sure subscribe

[@curiosocodigo3480]

Curioso el estudio del español jajaj saludos de Colombia

[@ryanben3988]

"My team works on windows" 🥶🤣😂

[@stentechy3346]

What programming language do you use, and how often do you use bash scripting? (at Microsoft)

[@dagoberttrump9290]

The lang from the vid is typescript

[@tomascarignano5002]

Hi there! Great video. I’m a native Spanish speaker with great English skills, if you ever wanna have a chat to flex your Spanish 😉

[@JasonGoodison]

Haha will do! Love practicing but I'm pretty rusty

[@fullenjoyp]

Kya khabar sir

[@clashindus6221]

What did you major in?

[@Zninjagaming522]

I feel like every code worker has the same keybord

[@kerboplaytv8744]

Wow, you can load the Bug Backlog for Windows on that laptop?! Thought loading it would take like 100 Yottabytes of RAM with the amount of brokenness Windows has.

[@marianpascu8474]

Why is it always that the code from real life projects is easier than the code for the problems given in interviews. BTW, does anybody use Linked lists and binary search trees at work?

[@RelatableGamingRyan]

Jeez this man is so busy I wonder where he found time to get his firearms license. You know, for those guns at 2:43.

[@JasonGoodison]

Haha don't make me blush

[@zhabiboss]

6:30 “our team uses windows”

[@Mats94]

I really want to learn coding but when I read what you write I feel like I will never understand this.

[@zaheerimad5844]

WHICH porgramming language is this

[@chaddonschaddons7084]

Is that the redmond office?

[@JasonGoodison]

Nope! Working from home

[@chaddonschaddons7084]

@@JasonGoodison lol!

[@hussienalsafi1149]

😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@CustomIcon]

as a microsoft software engineer dont you get a surface book. using mac feels off tho

[@ifindev]

Great video! Just curious actually. Do you use javascript a lot for the work especially on the backend side? Also, do you write unit testing for all your codes? For example, for the code to access db?

[@410Here]

he doesnt work on the microsoft backend, he's in charge of creating windows the windows images that you boot into to install the operating system essentially (i think)

[@loser7860]

Busy life 😕

[@JasonGoodison]

They say "if you want something done give it to a busy person" so I try to stay as busy as possible!

[@DeadlyRevenged]

Do you think it is possible to work as a programmer and study a different career in your spare time?

[@JasonGoodison]

Study a different career or have a hobby? Maybe you could give me an example?

[@DeadlyRevenged]

@@JasonGoodison Studying for example primary education to become a teacher or so, because in Spain teachers are civil servants (state workers) and have a guaranteed job until retirement age. I know that programming is practically the same, but I'm worried about being out of work tomorrow for X reason

[@JasonGoodison]

I wouldn't recommend taking your chips down now. Tech is only getting bigger!

[@syz3981]

no typescript ??

[@JasonGoodison]

I always keep it as lightweight as possible when starting a project. No need for added overhead

[@syz3981]

@@JasonGoodison .....

[@dix2330]

About the IT industry in Japan Do you know anything?

[@JasonGoodison]

Not much :(

[@FahadAli-ot5kn]

Coding for microsoft using mac os

[@watch5685]

what happens if the code go's public?

[@h-hhh]

you get fired

[@ranielvincecabarrubias6118]

What is that weird keyboard?

[@timwooten2150]

Why is it that most programmers also like learning languages?

[@hlammy6850]

Long ago I read a study that said there was a correlation between language skills and programming aptitude so maybe it is just natural

[@kabelondebele9533]

Why you using Mac

[@JasonGoodison]

I like it for coding! I have a windows I use more now though. I got the mac before I stared working here

[@rorymahoney]

yo can u make it so we can uninstall edge and cortana and also remove cortana cause noone fucking uses it

[@hantu4321]

This is UI/UX designer job not really computer science

[@saeedkhorsand1708]

Why, when you do not believe in Microsoft, you are hired and working on Microsoft (using MacBook, shows a rare error of Windows,...)?

[@JasonGoodison]

I prefer coding in mac but I have a windows I use 99% of the time now

[@niteshanthony2324]

Hey, we do not know each other but I would like to tell u that despite all the bad that you have done in your life, GOD still loves you and wants you to be with him (GOD), all yoi must do is to trust in Jesus like how he would trust in parachute when jumping out of a plane and you must be willing to turn from your wrong doings and do what is good❤😊❤ 0:04

[@alexg9996]

Well I sure hope you don't ever copypaste something three or more times, Mr. Microsoft Engineer :^)

[@adarshchhokar3818]

tu hablo espanol? 😂

[@JasonGoodison]

Hablas* my man... And no haha 🤣

[@derwinralph1893]

Bro u work at Microsoft and u use a Mac bruhhh

[@MuhammadFaisal-wt4hn]

Hey don't work at Microsoft i hate window update Jk

[@JasonGoodison]

hahaha everyone tells me this

[@totoroid]

good god your starup idea is so bad, not very creative but hardworking huh