Day In The Life of an Instagram Software Engineer

[@JohnCena963852]

Office: empty Game room: full

[@9ceper]

I was like bruh i need this job

[@brothercaleb]

Nebula ShxcK - word! 😂

[@niberius4289]

@Juha Bach probably not but they get paid hella racks so this ain’t a bad life

[@jessicamarie8299]

Meanwhile millions of accounts have been falsely reported and disabled and their employees are just messing around in the game room smh ridiculous!

[@mkanama2268]

Yea that’s why so many accounts are disabled and no one can get in touch with these people they in the game room playing instead of working.

[@marcspensor7279]

eating and preparing : 6 hours coding : 2 hours

[@sdkasak125]

it hurts a lot :')

[@HandiSulyansah]

me code just a need 4hour/day :)

[@The-Dev-Ninja]

sanity is also needed

[@TMM-N]

Paid too much...the farmers should get more income than these guys.

[@segu1459]

real engineers will code at least 10 hours a day, this dude a vlogger not a developer :)

[@carlos98132232]

Sometimes I get overwhelmed by college so i need to watch some vids like this to get motivation and keep going! thanks man. U got new subscriber

[@migotech4526]

carlos V thanks. Yeah college can be overwhelming but keep it up and I’m sure good things will come!

[@carlos98132232]

​@@migotech4526 Thank you I Appreciate It

[@bieggerm]

This is definitely not the norm. Most likely as a software engineer you will get to enjoy the usual 9 to 5 routine. Excluding a recreational room and little freebies like food and drinks. Not that that's bad. I'd rather go to work at 7 fixing some bugs and get the hell out at 3

[@kentrader2489]

Basically

[@pepitopepe7253]

sometimes you get overwhelmed by college so you start watching an UNREALISTIC day in the life video to get your hopes up? interesting...

[@Stl71]

A day in the life of a software engineer : I see him eating breakfast. Interesting...

[@detectedead]

:3

[@arpit27953]

Fuck before brush 😂

[@DiegoGarcia-on9hr]

and "working"

[@leaocarvalho9217]

Real life

[@АйымШарипзада]

😂😂👌

[@ayyyrajat]

bruv you ate "Breakfast" 4 times. 🤣

[@richardhammer187]

Yeah I got that! Lots of other weird routine scheduling too.

[@whatnowangga]

oh come on, show us stackoverflow screen 😂

[@nribackpacker]

lol

[@alonso4436]

Stackoverflow is so usefull

[@potatoking9945]

90% stackoverflow 10% self coding :)

[@mykhailomikhnovych8303]

@@potatoking9945 joke?

[@brothercaleb]

Potato King - half the time copy n paste 😂

[@douglasmayer9436]

So being a softwar engineer is just about eating now

[@Angelo-li1ch]

Man of Sorrow you wish lol

[@RichardDavis-vz2gh]

@@manofsorrow4785 just try to be one if its that easy

[@Spectraevil]

These videos don’t show when, u have u skip breakfast and eat other two meals on ur desk while coding if the task is length but moderately difficult. When task is difficulty or some critical bug shows up then, no lunch n all just some protein bars or something. Most of these videos are of people who r freshers so it’s not the end of the world even if they work leisurely. I’m Head of Product ( Lead engineer of the product team, front end, back end n dev ops for the product). Good days r fine but bad ones were like starting at 9am and working till 6 am(21 hrs) the next day lol. Coz various teams comprising of hundreds of engineering’s work on different sections in a product and if some developer made a mistake and it wasn’t caught in unit or integration test, then u r the one who has to figure it out, as sometimes mistakes hv domino effect, as a single service is used at multiple places and often bad code or mistake from one developer affects others developers n their services as well.

[@omarthedisciple]

Most of these vids are just lies idk why i keep watching them

[@darkdrmsx]

The pretty chill job 😂 i love it

[@challengedollar2880]

Covid: I’m gonna destroy this man’s whole routine

[@eatsleepcodereapet9414]

Me: i don't have a routine at all

[@Lampalot]

He can work from home

[@maybethisismarq]

Ali Ahmad well duh

[@victuz]

His job won't be hurt, because he can work from home.

[@deannahenry8925]

Not really

[@ThaiTran-ly2ok]

so officially, working from 10 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm. 6 hours per day. happy life :)))

[@RyanTheHuehue]

Him: Goes out at 7:40, in the office at 9:10 while doing breakfast and gym in between... Me in a 3rd world: Goes out at 5am to make the 8am office time. Pure 100% commute. :/

[@Gripengamer]

Natural selection, some people need advantages others need crap.

[@RyanTheHuehue]

@@Gripengamer but... I don't need crap :(

[@Gripengamer]

@@RyanTheHuehue had a stroke when i wrote my first comment. I meant that life is also about luck and finding oppertunities basically.

[@nayoolwin9428]

Me : where the hell is everybody? Me later : Ohh they r in the gaming room

[@airysm]

Instagram NYC is literally my dream spot, this is motivation.

[@Justfr4nky]

So, typical morning of a german employee: 6:00 wakeup / coffee, breakfast / make breakfast for the Kids 6:20 Shower 6:35 wakeup everyone at the house and wife does the rest 6:40 Leave House 7:00 Start working 12:00 lunch 12:30 work 14:00 work 16:00 work 17:00 Go Home 17:20 Start 2nd Job as a Software Engineering 19:00 Family Time 22:30 Bed

[@fibsernst]

Dann bist du aber definitiv in der falschen Firma. ^^

[@kaan54800]

@@fibsernst Bis auf den zweiten Job kann ich das schon nachvollziehen haha

[@guilhermegolfetto4754]

10 am to 6 pm. 15 minutes to the office 2 breakfast That is quality of life

[@stefanzlatanovic7521]

On 8 hour shift you get 2 hours of free time? That is crazy.

[@Lampalot]

thats normal, i work as a QA engineer and 1 hr is lunch and 2 hours i fool around

[@nirash8018]

I'd honestly prefer to just take a 30 mins break during that and therefore go back home 1.5h earlier

[@stefanzlatanovic7521]

@@Lampalot that is just a waste of time. I understand that everybody needs brakes during work, but 3 hours is just too much.

[@happyfox3275]

that is normal in the big companies. it is required to have breaks and chill for couple of minutes, get coffee and etc. Calculate launch break + all these small breaks and you will see that most people actually work about 6 hours in a 8 hour shift and that's how it should be in order to be productive and actually like your job. In one of my jobs, we had a tracker that calculated the time that we actually work on the PC, it was about 6 hours and our boss said "that's normal, it's how it should be"

[@lolad6083]

N V very true Yelp is right up the block same notion

[@jimbo8814]

Damn. Once at my job I was offered a Gatorade and was later charged for it twice the retail price..

[@HarshBakshi]

He literally took a bath in his office I mean at Instagram😳

[@abhirampuranik228]

"I thought he would hangout with instagram's model"

[@sgt.boris4713]

Here we go Indian desire

[@Anil75987]

Camera man: How much food shall we show in the video? MiGo: Yes

[@RDKCREATIONS]

2:01 eating while working 2:03 while your boss comes

[@horrorluvernyc]

worked 6 hours!!!!! ate like 4 times before leaving office. and he makes WAY MORE THAN I EVER WILL

[@bsal5347]

Lets not forget that he had to hop outta bed after turning off the lights to turn off the camera 😂

[@Snyp7777]

Fun Fact: In every day in the life video the person has to wake up before they wake up, set the camera and pretend to wake up again....

[@deannahenry8925]

Of course

[@Anonyme09865]

Can you block my ex? That beach won’t stop calling

[@vijay11186]

Alex Mamedy LoL

[@beedslolkuntus2070]

Can you just block her?

[@success2928]

😂😂😂

[@chanceyknows4445]

Hahhhaha

[@mikemastoros1219]

Living in Greece I know I'm not gonna get these kind of jobs but these type of videos help me get through my first year in college in this freaking pandemic

[@konstantindevelops131]

Is this what you do daily? Or was this more of a chilled day with no so much work at work ? Much love from Sofia, Bulgaria man!

[@migotech4526]

This was a normal day I'd say. Sometimes I have busier days and stay a bit later and some days are a bit easier.

[@breezyfan762]

MiGo Tech wait it can get easier than this??

[@dimitrisstavridis9423]

bro you spend more time eating and doing other things rather than working... just found my dream job

[@actionimme]

It's all about eating healthy and keeping your body in shape! The code almost writes itself! 🤪

[@victuz]

This should be valid for everything in life, specially manual work.

[@bfapple]

Does the documentation write itself too? A man can dream.

[@myguttervforvendetta]

Github Copilot check out

[@SuperScenes-h2h]

Other People : Cooks breakfast lunch and dinner Software engineers : We dont do that here😂😂

[@deercrossing3653]

I counted 7 hours of actual work, man I always had to put in at least 8 and a lot of times more than 8 being pushed to get projects done.

[@animestergacha1568]

Imagine the reaction of public when the cube actually breaks 😂

[@bjr816]

IG, Spotify, Netflix or Nike would be my dream companies. I hope to continue my path as a SD/SE to get there. Shoutouts to you man and thank you for the content. IG HQ not too far from my job lol.

[@Bboykc21]

Way to stay fit man! My dream life. Lift and code

[@migotech4526]

Yeah gotta keep a balanced lifestyle!

[@medamine194]

The Quote in the gaming room should say "play hard stay away from the office" hahaha

[@valencefootball9740]

Omg I was so confused why he said "Heading to office" then I realized this video is from march 2020 LMAO

[@av8flightstream]

Thanks for sharing a slice of your day bro!

[@bigice7184]

Lol. I code between 8:30 and 5 PM only interrupted by a 15 min Meeting and a 30min lunch break. There are phone falls and code reviewing squeezed in too, but still...

[@freesxsoccer]

Big Ice yup I’m from 10-7

[@roachtoasties]

You had breakfast twice. One thing I wanted to see is what you were actually coding. Of course, if you showed that, you probably would be an ex-Instagram employee. I'm nearing the end of my software career, but if I was younger, my day would be more like yours, instead of a less interesting video. Basically I'm up very early, then a very short drive to my office (two miles). Working on and off at my desk, figuring out some software issues, or troubleshooting (today's big problem). Any meetings are on Microsoft Teams. Snack at my desk and leave at about 2:00 pm. That's it.

[@manasjain914]

What a life 😌

[@MdRafiurRahman-mr7fz]

Your video motivated me a lot. You got a new subscriber.

[@abdulhussein1812]

This and many of these videos "a day in a life of a software engineer" have not been real, instead of showing how busy software engineers spend all day long writing code, reviewing and debugging them, instead many have of you just filming yourself doing things that are really not connected to engineering ways, so advice is for you to really show us what software engineers works on his/her daily basis. Many of you have been filming yourselves showing that you are using most of your time playing with dogs at home(for many who used a work from home), playing ping pong, wandering through the city with a roller coaster, hanging out with friends at bar, doing yoga or spend time in gym, drinking coffee and eating different of good foods(although many of what you are doing are true) , others have been watermarking their coding sessions thinking that we will copy their codes and deploy them into production and benefitting from their work. Many of you have truly deviating so far away from our expectations as many of us expected we will see you spending your day as software engineers dealing with engineering problems(writing, reviewing, testing and bug fixing codes) around your offices or at home for those who are working from home. Please guys show us something natural like the one here by this guy here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGLJlGN8oaidr6s

[@StevenShoaf]

Good video!! Crazy the views you got on it

In reality he is just crunching from 6:00 to 18:00 everyday and on weekends he does what he missed during the week...

[@Panzerfury18]

Let me list my day. 5: 00: Wake up, and prepare 6: 30: Drop kid off at kindergarden 7: 00 Take train to work (work on train). 8: 20: Arrive at office, Start working 11: 30: Lunch 12: 00: more work 14: 30: panic catch train back home (Work on train). 16: 00: Pick up kid Void until dinner. Maybe workouts. 17: 30/18: 00: Eat Dinner 19: 00/19: 30: Put kid to sleep 20: 00: Relax or catch up on missing hours (I have to register 8 hours of work pr. day) 23: 00: Head to bed.

[@megabakfiets]

Cool story bro

[@danypel-gh5fw]

You didn’t mention your wife.... may be your relative don’t know but good story

[@aimiloo]

My account got hacked back in June, and the many video selfies I've submitted aren't being approved for whatever reason. Can you please fix this issue? I'm trying to get back into my account. Thanks!

[@panitanwongse-ammat598]

Hi Mike, How are you? I am glad to see you doing well at work and I enjoy watching the video. I hope that you would come back to the campus sometimes in the future. Best,

[@Emalloll]

just for your to know this is not a day not the life of an software engineer it’s a day in the life of him

[@rogermario]

Haha man nice Video! Lovely to see you online 😂 greetings from Buenos Aires

[@rehanakhatoon6337]

Your reality is our spectations.

[@arpandutta3591]

A very real and touching one, keep it up

[@phoebelee9864]

love this video!!

[@pranitghadge2710]

i am inspired by how he gets up at 7.20 AM and not 7.21

[@merularief8493]

people on street : ........... the cube : ........ migo : let try push the cube

[@sammikhan464]

so basically an Instagram software engineer, eats at their desk and goes for walks around the building. might apply.

[@korbennnn]

Looks like chilling out with rare interruption to have some work to be done 😆

[@Rohitsingh2410]

Can you share your interview preparations tips and suggestions for an aspiring dev?

[@Theosdei]

And btw keep going best wishes for your future

[@astha_yadav]

This is a calm yet exciting life, and full of free time Thanks to share ✿

[@aryamansarkar]

Hmm software engineer's work : breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner and sleep I'm impressed Btw google is coming up to you✊ Wakanda forever

[@Aripoma]

How old Is this video? I’m guessing your routine has changed a Lot the last two weeks 😰

[@migotech4526]

It has! The office is closed so now I'm working from home. Guess I should update with a new schedule since it's way different than before haha

[@Aripoma]

MiGo Tech yeah I’ve been wfh for 2 weeks now and things took a 180 haha bye bye routines.

[@TheRealRillo]

@@migotech4526 hey dude, you probably get this message a lot but could you help me recover my disabled IG account?

[@maxhundziak3311]

In Poland you have to be at work at 8 am and you end your work at 4 pm

[@sjonny-depp]

With all respect. But cut the crap man.. show us the project managers complaining all the time, making you rush, stress, and work very hard. I am also missing Stackoverflow, showering at work, 2 hours of free time? All the time eating? I am a software engineer for 8 years must be doing something wrong. but 50% here is not the true company life ;)

[@dexterovski]

Have you ever visited Instagram? It's a pretty shitty piece of software and web version was one of the worst web sites I've ever visited (it got a bit better now).

[@Anonymous-nj2ow]

Lol nice man, youre vids have exploded, i watched some your first stuff

[@DamonNicholl]

Like, did you ask permission to film this? Genuinely curious about these types of videos.

[@さかなさかな-c3n]

Your life is so beautiful!

[@lukaduma]

I think many software engineers lack regular exercise. How about doing more videos about that in the future. Keep up the good work!

[@kimjeyong2474]

Luka Dumančić True. I get up everyday at 5 in the morning when basically no one is outside and do sports 5:30 - 7am. I try to do it everyday but sometimes I also sleep till 7😬

[@killionaire175]

A programmer who works out and handsome? Never before seen this!

[@piero3528]

Is it normal to work 6.5 hours? Cool video!

[@TheMLightning]

This explains a lot as to why dark mode is so glitchy on Android.

[@theone4808]

This is like watching one of those food shows on TV during the day.

[@maythecodesbewithyou29]

Great Video MiGo

[@Noah-uc9yu]

schools in switzerland be like: imma have u in school at 7 am please.

[@floatytrouty]

Every school in the world does that

[@mieadmahdavi4826]

Difference between us and instagram software engineer is they eat two breakfast.

[@edwardcm9175]

He ate 5 minutes after he awakened

[@proccessingunit2337]

I was wondering why the office was so empty, then I checked the upload date

[@gotoislam70]

finally , someone from intagram made it

[@popatkothavade953]

Your day is so nice

[@nribackpacker]

Wait a min ! what about daily standups ? How do you collaborate with your team ? It would have been nice if you could have shown what exactly you do as far as daily tasks are concerned

[@Jedo663]

such a beautiful life

[@patrickcuster4850]

Only a half hour of meetings a day? Sign me up. I'm a network engineer and I'm in at least 2 hours of worthless meetings a day. Hard to get anything done being interrupted with meetings all the time.

[@___yoursunrise]

Now I know why we don’t get any trending features and updates..

[@singhcodes7733]

Wow this is amazing 😍😍

[@harrisahmad3028]

focus on his chest for a sec when he begins to code.. damn those are some powerful exhales

[@pikidydikidy]

new york is beautiful

[@shashidhara.g.m655]

He : I work at instagr.... Another dude : wait up man hack a account for me :))))

[@samarthmusic01]

these offices look more like hotels rather than offices

[@thechrisramos]

That’s great, but don’t y’all have an instagram iPad app to finish or something?

[@alejandroruiz2439]

it seems their AI does it all. they just chill and supervise.

[@dandyachmady4924]

This is why our complain never was reacted so fast

[@olovepro]

The coffee smoothie is the best part

[@programmerrdai]

Great Content

[@fajarkusumahputra8626]

You got my subscribe Dude, thanks for sharing this .

[@thewrongopinion7811]

and now they all work from home and never see any other human beings.

[@jawsize]

what do you often do while at work like: think idea, solve problem or something?

[@larphraulen]

So I've watched a few of these "day in the life" videos of SEs at social media companies... One thing that's common across all these videos is working 8 or less hours a day. There's no way that's true right?

[@АндрейКамуда]

u gotta do a 12 a day to be good enough to get there, but since you in top tier company you can rest like this (but it's hard to get promotion this way)

[@larphraulen]

@@АндрейКамуда @acuraintdohc Very interesting... Thanks for the responses.

[@artursaksjonenko8415]

Bon apetit. It is not a joke but every SE/programmer/coder eats 1x per day - from morning till evening :-)

[@dennydharmawan4820]

he doesn't skip leg day

[@caseybriones1085]

Nice video man, working on the grind that someday I would get to work for big companies such as instagram in the US :) For that i will sub :D

[@migotech4526]

Thanks man! You can do it. Just got to put in the work studying and coding :)

[@caseybriones1085]

@@migotech4526 Thanks man! I'll be doing my internship this summer! Rewatching this video, to keep myself motivated and keeping the grind.

[@laurieknapp5264]

Every single one of these "day in the life of a FAANG software engineer" videos are all the same: Breakfast - 7 a.m. Second Breakfast - 9 a.m. Elevenses - 11 a.m. Luncheon - 1 p.m. Afternoon Tea - 3 p.m. Dinner - 6 p.m. Supper - 9 p.m

[@theredbaron545]

Make a video where you explain how to get/how you got this dream job

[@reeve8640]

TLDW; steal ideas like zuckerberg, steal ideas like zuckerberg, idolize zuckerberg, steal ideas like zuckerberg