My Software Engineering Journey & Salaries ($$$)

[@TechWithTim]

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

[@yashaswikulshreshtha1588]

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]

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

[@rohith41]

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]

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]

Congratulations and best of luck!

[@lemastertech]

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]

I was thought he's nearly 35

[@dailyclipmafia5041]

he aint 22 lol

[@clem]

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! 🥂

[@Blodia1990]

Man I saw you guys' coding interview together. This is unbelievably inspiring.

[@paulovinicius5833]

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]

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]

no problem! happy to help

[@jubaerjami]

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]

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

[@liveitout]

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

[@yellaomo]

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]

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

[@sargata3054]

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

[@TechWithTim]

Appreciate you. Wishing you the same!

[@carlkarl]

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

[@64imma]

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]

Keep grinding you got this

[@gustavobertocco554]

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 :)

[@mexp984]

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

[@Thomas-po4ex]

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.

[@tz2014]

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

[@raptoritis]

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.

[@ahmadhammad12]

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.

[@txdba]

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.

[@RonaldPostelmans]

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

[@defidelity]

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

[@dre429]

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!

[@DiegoMagallanes-ce5it]

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]

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

[@paulocerioni6375]

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]

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]

Congrats! Let’s do it 💪💪

[@symo_mutie]

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.

[@CalvinOnTheCoast]

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.

[@lamineemb]

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

[@vlvbeats517]

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

[@utibeabasiumanah]

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!

[@alimihakeem841]

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

[@jaylooppworld381]

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 .

[@nelio3d]

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

[@Iamrahulhere]

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]

Keep grinding,wish you luck😊

[@infinitygod5379]

What a trash country lol

[@Iamrahulhere]

@@unknown__user__800 💯 with hope 🙌🏻

[@vedkorla300]

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

[@onwukaebuka5322]

Thank you Tim, your videos inspire me every day

[@ismail.dalhatu]

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

[@KingdomCre8tive]

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

[@michazarzycki4864]

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!

[@devchannel5232]

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!

[@Axl124124]

Great journey, thanks for sharing!

[@GreyGhost9]

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

[@theitalian94]

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

[@muffinman1]

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

[@ammaralbakri1705]

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.

[@bogdanvelica]

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 :)))

[@k1631-l9u]

Thank you for your tutorials Tim.

[@shabba194]

Very transparent and no fluff. I like

[@fredrick_muasya28]

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

[@RiftWarth]

Thanks for sharing your journey, Tim. 👍

[@doggomemememedog8346]

Hard work pays off, thanks for your hobby.

[@odimayodavid]

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

[@zak_diarra]

Well done bro, you are an inspiration for all millenials

[@SalahadinJr]

Thanks tim from Ethiopia 🇪🇹🇪🇹

[@sw-code6027]

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 😁

[@Φαχάντ]

Man ngl tim lookin like a Chad with that beard💪

[@aaditmaheshwari4080]

Loving the beard man

[@TechWithTim]

Thanks dude!

[@aname4931]

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

[@andrewdddo]

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

[@t-ree]

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

[@dermenschistweilesglaubtda41]

meanwhile i have 10k hours in dota2 and 10k hours in cs go, am 26 years old, virgin and driving uber. i still beleive, that one day i will become a pro gamer

[@CYKG2023]

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!

[@gge6021]

starting my first software developer job next week lets go 🎉

[@lorenzo7026]

Great video 🔥

[@BGOPC]

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

[@BadRPGPlayer]

Kinda wish I stuck with programming when my brain would absorb stuff easier. Ah well, the grind starts here.

[@algeriennesaffaires7017]

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

[@sukhvsin2]

I feel motivated from your journey

[@tyronemguni3895]

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

[@raeestheviewer224]

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

[@thejuanlucas2]

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

[@swiftpy]

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.

[@psnisy1234]

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.

[@sethbandit]

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

[@danielmawalla5986]

Inspiring me, From Tanzania, Africa here🎉

[@OkayNoway]

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]

Great idea! I may do that :)

[@preciouschisom6141]

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

[@rafaelg0225]

Funny how you stopped talking about exact $$ figures after 2020... You should have kept telling people what your salary was to encourage them to pursue more in the tech industry. My cousin never went to college, put some money together and bought a desktop PC almost 20 years ago, learned PHP and got a minimum wage job posting used media on Ebay. He then continued and learn C++ and C# all while I was getting a BS and Masters in Computer Science , fast forward 20 years and he is making as much as I am. I got a degree for self achievement and to make my parents proud 12 years ago, but now days you can be a very good developer, all you need is perseverance and lots of KZbin hours... Happy coding everyone.. ❤

[@i.m.fin_cefiroth]

thank you Tim.

[@bakhtiyor_sulaymonov]

wow, 22years old. quite impressive

[@algeriennesaffaires7017]

You forgot to tell us if you are leading the project for free or having a 6 figures salary

[@puncher939]

What programming language do they use at the current job?

[@sarscov9854]

I grew up poor, I worked as a gardener earning $15/hr, took Udemy courses for years, submitted job applications into the void, then I became a jr developer, now I'm a software engineer making 6 figures.

[@Bllrr]

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

[@justin9494]

dude acts like he's not an anomaly

[@saami9606]

omg ur 22?! wooooow! amazing

[@whonayem01]

Thanks for sharing

[@tinkertaps]

This video is Inspiring and Disappointing (Disappointed in myself) at the same time 😅😅

[@senzmaki]

best time to start was yesterday, but the second best time to start is today or sth like that

[@raeestheviewer224]

​@@senzmaki technically the best time to start is when you first hear about coding but I get the saying

[@freaklore]

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

[@fabiotrucco7969]

He earned 15 dollars an hour when he was 14, waaaay more than the average professional salary here in Argentina. Thats crazy

[@JeyPeyy]

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

[@lsaikumar4003]

An inspirational journey

[@Soyosan22]

Unless you are genuinely interested in software development and coding, there is no point in forcing yourself to learn it just because you think you will be given a higher than average salary. If you find no joy in this field, no amount of money will make you satisfied.

[@jeremyyd1258]

Noticed you didn’t share your current salary..

[@TechWithTim]

Unfortunately I can’t disclose that but between all sources it is in the high 6 figures

[@jeremyyd1258]

@@TechWithTim Congrats! You’ve worked hard for it!

[@MystifulHD]

UR 22 YEARS OLD ARE U KIDDING ME?? I THOUGHT U WERE LIKE 35

[@Luxurytech2]

Hi Tim I am in school doing PEM. But I wanted to learn coding but I don't have time at campus here in Uganda u must have to complete A level to give a software engineering course and me I see A level it's a wastage of time but I thank u so much I can do some coding on my phone though I don't have a laptop because it's expensive here in Uganda and I don't have money but I thank u I would like to continue learning how to code but I will be in boarding

[@DannyAbroad]

Make a video about teaching a 10-12 year old programming. The languages they need to start with. Basically a young child

[@EMMANUELELIJAH-g1o]

Wow Tim's getting Old.....I have been watching you along! much mustache

[@lucaslinhares4071]

My man was 14 making as much as a software engineer in Portugal ahahah

[@panoskatsos5454]

Loved how the last two salaries were conveniently excluded..