That Guy in Your Comp Sci Class Be Like

We all know that one guy in our comp sci class like this. The humble bragging, passive-aggressiveness, LinkedIn speeches as if they won an Oscar, and they judge you based on where you work 😶
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[@pokipoke8331]

Do you know what’s even more of a flex? Taking your first Cs course in first year and getting the same job/coops as the person who started coding at 5

[@nicholast]

And then they say you just got lucky

[@33v4.]

Now imagine what they say when they find out you're a woman who actually went to a bootcamp

[@pokipoke8331]

@@nicholast honestly its not that much of a disadvantage. A lot of those people who “started at 5” didnt learn a lot of the foundational components that are very focused in 100 and 200 level cs courses. And dont forget the top 1/4 of math students are better programmers than the bottom 1/4 of cs majors.

[@connorkapooh2002]

@@pokipoke8331 very very true. im not that guy but i started programming when i was 12, in my second year of my data science degree (19 now) and i have learnt so much the past few years. self-teaching programming is good because you can play about with it all in a more relaxed environment and guide yourself. however, you miss out on so much stuff by programming by yourself e.g. collaboration, software development lifecycles, data structures, algorithms, whats happening under the hood, the list goes on.

[@ronjeremy1232]

@@33v4. better to fins a good husband

[@redred7702]

Surprisingly never met anyone like this (in comp sci) before. Everyone I know is either self-deprecating as shit when they’re really good, or just hate computer science as a whole but can’t back down because they already put 10 years of their life into typing for loops.

[@PhilipAlexanderHassialis]

Don't forget obligatory imposter syndrome. Every day at work I wonder why I am being paid, like, literally why, even with 15+ years of professional experience in the field.

[@Smudgell]

You never met him? Got bad news mate. You're him.

[@gaygoddessnamedmadoka2252]

or that guy who choose computer science cuz he think he can create cool games and then end up crying because of it(that's me)

[@JAZ_2002]

@@gaygoddessnamedmadoka2252 yeahhh

[@euphoria6975]

I honestly believed people like this didn’t exist until I met one. In my senior year of high school, this kid marked all of the checks. A nihilistic redditor that believes he’s better than everyone because he started coding at 12. Don’t forget they have an ego the size of Texas with the thinnest bubble to pop.

[@AndyChamberlainMusic]

if they say "I started coding when I was five, by the way" you gotta hit em with "so you've gotta have made at least a few successful startups by now right"

[@joestarjoestar1020]

This is GOLD

[@araara967]

yes yes yes

[@TheActualTed]

I mean, people like this usually already have a pretty well paying part-time or even full time job even while studying and are good at what their do. So I don't think that's a valid point.

[@justadude8716]

I mean I started "coding" when I was 14 making Roblox games with Lua and mods, but I didn't actually get serious with programming until I went to college. Sure I knew C and Python and could brag to my peers, but honestly I was just as clueless as them, maybe in a worse position because I thought CS was going to be easy (it wasn't lol)

[@thedog5k]

@@TheActualTed *pulled out of ass* Either way those are still huge gaps

[@ward7576]

We had this one guy who would always be dressed up similar to the dress-code in Matrix and he would often just open up his laptop and run a program that made particles drop like in the "matrix code" then he would just sit like a statue observing the "animation" and would sneakily look around to see if anyone's paying attention to him lol

[@iskogproductions6728]

lmfao

[@joyanngitau6682]

lmao, if i could i would like to go to wherever he is and laugh at his face

[@chawneharris2699]

My chest lmao. I wouldn't dare dress like that and flex my program but I do have the matrix effect ready to show!

[@toastybatch565]

I think that guy was just being funny.

[@max_208]

*opens a terminal and types "cmatrix"* I'm a hacker mom !

[@QS1597]

"I started coding when I was 5," you mean to tell me you WEREN'T coding in the womb? Amateur.

[@Qewbicle]

Thats when you hit them with, my parents couldn't afford a computer, so I stole a ti-82 because I loved math and programming, and later gave it back, because I wasn't wanting to be a thief, just learn. It sucks that others had a better oppurtunity and didn't utilize it. If I had a computer then, I'd probably be better off too.

[@glaci1008]

So you're saying that you DIDN'T build your own computer in your past life? Pathetic.

[@nicholast]

Your first program was Hello World? Mine was GOOGLE.

[@kohinoortanishq3968]

@@nicholast 😂😂

[@webflyer035]

@@nicholast *Search 😂

[@ozkidagoat]

This reminds me off a classmate who started coding at birth passed all the interview rounds with a big tech and failed their personality test 💀

[@sin3358]

To be fair, I'm sure companies are more willing to hire average people who have great social skills than jerks like that who know how to do the job. EQ has been often proven to be more useful than IQ

[@tigana]

LOL WOW

[@roxymigurdia1]

@@sin3358 google has the luxury of finding both

[@anpufe9990]

@@sin3358 Source: The voices of your head.

[@atticusreeves]

Newb, I coded an AI and worked for microsoft before birth

[@numberiforgot]

I can confirm that every compsci course I took in college had at least two of these people. Took every opportunity to make you feel like a dunce if you ever didn’t know something they knew. I can also confirm they had very few friends.

[@xoom1712]

Prove that in any ComSci class with n >= 2 people, there will be at least 2 humble-bragging, passive aggressive toxic jerks [4 marks] Jokes aside, this is so true

[@g33xzi11a]

The worst ones in my opinion are the try-hard best friend who take every course together and hijack group projects where they have group meetings with just the two of themselves, don’t keep anybody but each other informed about their progress, have their own subgroup version control, and basically do all of the work before anybody else can even do anything. One of the worst things you can do is steal someone else’s learning opportunity because you already know something and need to make sure everybody else knows you know it.

[@KF-zb6gi]

Waw why do I never met someone like that? Is it because I’m always alone?

[@PichuElric]

They need to be isolated and have their spirits broken

[@PichuElric]

Also, these types of people in ComSci seem to think all they need to be happy and succeed in life is mad coding skills, and by that standards they're already very far ahead, but it also makes me nauseated that companies will actually take these guys and pay them thousands of dollars for something a person who started coding in their 20s can do too

[@YellowLink10]

I know someone who was in my comp sci class who was really good at coding, don't know how long he'd been doing it, but he'd been at it for a while. But the thing is, he was really humble about it, he wouldn't brag or anything like that, and he was actually a really nice guy outside of that class as well. I always felt comfortable asking for help from him whenever I needed it, and he never treated me like I was stupid if I didn't know the solution to anything. He was just a really cool guy. Cheers, Levi.

[@CodexDoesMinecraft]

This is very random, but did you go to CHS?

[@YellowLink10]

@@CodexDoesMinecraft what does that stand for?

[@CodexDoesMinecraft]

@@YellowLink10 Canisius High School

[@YellowLink10]

@@CodexDoesMinecraft no, I never went there

[@tihan86]

Ayy I have a guy in my class who is exactly like this and his name is Lev

[@FryingPan]

AY BUD, DON'T WORRY, YOU'LL GET THERE ONE DAY NATHAN

[@nicholast]

i- it- it's nick...

[@wonderchild25]

@@nicholast oh right it's nelson my bad

[@user-rk1fq1zw7g]

wait by why do I think Frying Pan is like this IRL

[@twilightgeneral777]

@@nicholast Right, sorry about that Naruto

[@thalibmuhammad9519]

as far as i know, a Frying pan belongs to KITCHEN

[@Mr-Ibee]

Yep, I know someone like that. He's actually known throughout my uni's CS dept for constantly kissing arse and tryna flex about everything from the jobs he gets to the specs on his PC (at like super random times too). Granted, the guy can code.

[@juicylucy7270]

Yup dat is real flex nothing better than a dream job

[@nicholast]

THE SPECS ON HIS PC LOOL 💀

[@TheVirtualArena24]

@@FS-yq9ef how? Can you share please

[@TheVirtualArena24]

@@FS-yq9ef how you earning through notebook???

[@TheVirtualArena24]

@@FS-yq9ef yes what remote work I also want to do

[@hedgehodge9612]

Literally the entire math/physics faculty at my uni...

[@nicholast]

I feel sorry for you

[@masternobody1896]

@@nicholast lol

[@hedgehodge9612]

@@nicholast Honestly, toxic academic behaviour has absolutely ruined my experience at Uni, some people would literally gaslight people into dropping out because they did better than them... To some extent, I realize if I want to pursue a career as a theoretical physicist in academia, there is bound to be competition, but cmon, at least be a good sport about it.

[@cokemachine62590]

@@hedgehodge9612 I was gonna tell you that it gets better in the real world outside of uni, then I went on to read about your career goals 😂 Sorry man, I think you might be stuck in that type of environment. I’d suggest doing yoga or something lol

[@isodoubIet]

@Waldel Martell "sn't the point to do research in physics ?" There's literally hundreds of applicants for each faculty position, do the math. Then once you become an assistant professor you have (in the US) 7 years to get tenure. If you don't get tenure, you get the boot. Once you do get tenure, you gotta fight for grant money (it's not like you can just stop doing your job), gotta support your grad students and postdocs, etc. It never stops. "One's cognitive abilities are nothing compared to proper education (from the parents)." Not true at least in academia, and some skilled industry positions also. Having the better hardware is such a massive advantage that it can overrule a lot of other flaws.

[@bennyc655]

I'm also a undergraduate CS student in Waterloo and I completely feel that. Especially in freshman years, some people are too much of them selves, but for most people, once we got to senior year most of us learn to be humble after we met so much talented people in school and in the industry

[@nicholast]

math 239 will also humble some students

[@Ghxlib]

@benny C bro can i have any of ur contacts pls

[@howardbaxter2514]

Classes will do that too you. They will find your weak spot and exploit it. Never got a C on a test in high school? Prepare to receive your first F.

[@tommykuo1159]

Wow CS in Waterloo! Bro you don’t need to be humble, this just proven your talented or hardworking and will be qualified one day which means you’ll have a bright future. Waterloo has always been my dream and I hope I will get there one day… - From a year 11 student on an island in the other half of the world

[@_quixote]

Even getting into Waterloo cs is crazy…I gave up from early. The first sentence showed too much talent already

[@thatrandomguy8988]

"Did you know I learnt coding when I was 5" Dude thats awfully sad. To have pain and suffering so early in your life

[@nicholast]

LOOL 💀

[@tbmj]

Hey it’s not pain and suffering it’s my favorite pass time… it also makes my parents proud

[@SaulBadman]

@@tbmj What do you do when you call the API too much?

[@battlebuddy4517]

@@SaulBadman make my own

[@SaulBadman]

@@battlebuddy4517 Chad

[@natashajchen]

brb adding exploratory testing software engineer at meta to my LinkedIn profile

[@nicholast]

*Google knocks on door*

[@indenturedLemon]

same, gonna throw in my resume too

[@youtube_stories.8323]

It's worse when you have been coding since you were 10 but in university you meet a kid who was born in a family of coders and has been coding since birth.

[@justagirlchillinghere]

And theres me who wanted to learn coding in 2020(i was 15 back then) but my sibling stopped me and now i can't manage the time to learn it properly, too much college pressure. Just wishing I'll get into cse major after college

[@dodoodood.9421]

@@justagirlchillinghere your sibling sounds like an asshole

[@moisesmiguel897]

I remember there were guys like that at my software dev bootcamp, when ever we worked in group assignments they acted just like `THAT` guy. But I had no problem telling them every-time that I didn't care and just wanted to get the assignment done. There's nothing like knocking the ego off stuck up people

[@MVPMTKING]

Chad.

[@wafflescripter9051]

It's always really awkward when people are complaining about failing an exam you got 110% on. You either have to lie or risk looking like this guy.

[@nyalan8385]

Yeah fr, I remember one time in highschool everyone failed a test, but someone made a hundred so there was no curve, and everyone was pissed at that person. That person was me. No one ever found out who made the hundred.

[@benschmitt7035]

@@nyalan8385 ok but seriously fuck every professor who doesn't curve because 1 or 2 people got a high score like those people are outliers, and good for them, but they obviously don't represent the class average, which is what a curve is supposed to help with I'm not saying its your fault or anything, just the professors for being a dipshit lol

[@nyalan8385]

@@benschmitt7035 no I completely agree, I actually felt kind of bad that I messed up things for everyone else, but at the same time I didn't do anything wrong

[@benschmitt7035]

@@nyalan8385 of course, you just knew the material better, obviously there's nothing wrong with you and while i say logically you shouldn't feel bad, i understand its probably hard not to. if that type of shit ever happens again (to anyone reading lol) i recommend going to the teacher/professor and arguing for your classmates (after class or at office hours). Let them know they're being dumb

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

Curving exams is dumb lazy shit anyway. Grading on a curve is basically just a silent admission that the person who’s writing the test has _no_ idea what standard they want to test for or how to do it.

[@cjezinne]

Lol Aww man, that guy. He’s the one that told everyone that I was a diversity hire, because I got an offer at a company he couldn’t…

[@user_2793]

What the fuck

[@ZainArtz]

This might sound messed up, but that's what my professor is. He really, really sucks. Upon some inspection, he's advertised as a "bringing diversity to the CS department" hire on the university site. Explains enough.

[@ceciliaw1065]

Exactly

[@maxmaxwell4211]

Well we wouldn't know. That's why diversity hires are fucked up. You probably did merits to be there but there's always doubt.

[@chawneharris2699]

i actually am a diversity hire lmao, jokes on them because I was actually good and now I'm excelling

[@Woodside235]

This was my experience in Comp Sci Uni. Every class would have at least one, if not multiple dudes who were very extroverted and tried to chat up everyone, but only as a way to get them to engage in their tech dick measuring contest. They were like vultures looking for _any_ sign of technical weakness to pounce on. But that kind of person disappeared once I actually got into the field. I never knew for sure why, but if I'd hazard a guess it's because they were all theory and no substance.

[@max3446]

The reason is quite simple - you can be technically brilliant but if you're an arsehole ultimately no one is gonna hire you lmao.

[@hanac5586]

Meanwhile we had this power duo who were confused but super enthusiastic and willing to ask for help. Everytime they had done something, asked for our opinion and noticed they could've done something better they looked at each other and went "WELL, it works! It may not be fancy but it WORKS" still makes me smile

[@JohnSmith-bs9ym]

As a physics major, I could say that the grad school people are VERY different from undergrads. Significantly nicer, more intelligent and hard working. It really shows that once you get to a high enough level, you get to hang around more quality people. It's how life's supposed to work, I guess.

[@Chuckler127]

I might be able to provide a little insight: I was once the manager of a small team. I had this one guy on my team who was the most knowledgeable when it came to IT and also had the strongest work ethic. But he was a massive jerk to everybody else on the team if he ever felt like they didn't measure up to him in any way on any given task, and he always said something about it. The man simply did not have it in him to be polite to literally anybody to save his own job. Even I often got snarky comments all the time - but I tolerated it because he was frankly the best guy on my team when it came to the work involved. Yes, I talked to him about his attitude on more than one occasion but it was always blatantly dismissed because I couldn't deny he objectively had the best record. However, he ended up getting laid off by the higher ups that were above me because he couldn't help but often drop into their offices or send them nasty emails to complain and be a jerk to them for whatever reason. TL;DR people would rather work with people who are plainly competent but nice, instead of super-geniuses who make you hate coming in to work to deal with them each day.

[@PichuElric]

@@max3446 That's such a nice thought. I do know of people like that who've gotten great jobs (they're seniors, so I don't exactly know HOW good their jobs are?) but if I have more sweaty brodudes looking down on me for not knowing my PC's full specs because it's a hand-me-down, I'll commit a cr1me

[@Winium]

Great skit! Applies a little to math majors as well. I was too insecure to hang with "these people", who typically formed groups. Thankfully never saw it to this degree, and I'm sure part of it was my own anxious imagination. Still, sharp but toxic people (even if minorly so) are aggravating.

[@moatef1886]

In my experience, math majors are pretty chill. As in pure math majors, not the people in some intro math courses, but when the class sizes get small and it's just you and the math majors, they are pretty great.

[@RAHULKUMAR-xy4wz]

100

[@howardbaxter2514]

@@moatef1886 true, cause at some point you will take classes that EVERYONE struggles with. I noticed this with my engineering classes. There were cliques at first, but we got humbled real quick once we hit our 300 level classes. I’ve only met 3 people that I would consider pure geniuses when it came to engineering. One was a friend of mine in Civil that finished with a 4.0. He was very humble about it, but every person I talked to that was in Civil knew him, and always wondered how he just got it. The second person I knew was a complete douche. The third person I know is very intelligent and humble, and is well respected across the department. That being said, when he struggled on a Control Systems test like everyone in the class was, then you knew the test was absurdly bad.

[@anothernumber9753]

I’ve been coding since I was 7 but I don’t care if somebody just started off it’s more personality and desire to learn that matters. A person can learn to code, but it’s much harder to deprogram a jerk

[@SquareRoot_]

You don't stand a chance to my newborns. They are solving the travelling salesman problem to get the shortest path from my b*** to birth. ngmi

[@anothernumber9753]

@@SquareRoot_ Smart kids 😂😂

[@guy-dev]

@@SquareRoot_ You don't stand a chance against my newborn. He coded his own OS while in the womb

[@RDR911]

You're also clearly very humble

[@anothernumber9753]

@@RDR911 Thank You. (:

[@CaptainGibbons]

Literally had a guy in college brag about working for Google. Turned out he just volunteered for them one summer to pass out brochures or something like that. Anyways he ended up getting arrested for impersonating a police officer and giving people fake tickets lmao, I think the footage is on the internet somewhere.

[@someguyslastname8487]

Lmfao, I liked the curve this story turned

[@cressdrg9562]

Just as I am wondering what drives people to make up such obvious lies in order to impress people for no tangible gain whatsoever... you drop the last part and it all makes sense, this is an insane person.

[@someguyslastname8487]

@@cressdrg9562 just what make others do drugs. Feel a dopamine rush for the half a second they are telling you.

[@CaptainGibbons]

So I wasn't going to say his name, but... I just looked him up again and he got arrested last year for burglary lmao, so fuck him. His name rhymes with "Rug" and he's from a port town in Alabama. (Don't harass him of course, he's getting his just desserts already.)

[@danielasfaw6539]

"You can't rely on automated testing" lol

[@KookoCraft]

Difference between rely and use as a crutch

[@monkemode8128]

I'm a 20 year old comp sci student today, I was programming at 11. It helps, but I honestly think I'd be at a very similar level today career wise. I was able to get a job as a developer at 19, but I literally started out making less than $15 an hour and have gotten up to $18 an hour. Basically the same amount of money I'd be making at a lot of fast food restaurants around where I live and not enough to really move out. The problem is my social/collaboration skills, I never developed them because I never had to. Sure, I can write a function that does x, but lots of programming is figuring out (by working with others) that we need y feature, which means we need z system, which in order to function must have x function. The systems are so complex no matter how good of a programmer you are individually working with others extremely valuable. When I graduate at 21-22 I'll end up with the same job all of the other devs have.

[@AlexTheGamer97]

If all they can talk to you about is the internships and interviews they’re doing it’s a red flag 100%

[@nicholast]

there's more to life than the internship grind

[@xxxxxxxxxxxxx760]

They're typically too busy coding to learn social skills. I'm guilty of this myself when I was younger. Tough Asian parents' expectations + lack of time with people = a fragile ego built on top of solely focusing on achievements.

[@felipemauez3557]

Not that fragile if you are capable of assuming that. Huge step.

[@NegativeAccelerate]

Yeah same. I don’t think I was as bad as the guy in the video, but id pretend to be dumb so that when people eventually found out about my achievements they’d be impressed. And whenever anyone was better than me I’d secretly think in my head “well I am better than you at X”.

[@muhammadzeeshan303]

They’re not even god at it. Its bs if they say they do

[@daboi6844]

​@@NegativeAccelerate I remember being cocky about being smart in college because I had nothing else going for me. But if I wasn't cocky, trying new things and failing would've shattered my ego, so being cocky helped me expand my horizons. Now I'm confident in my abilities and don't feel a need to be cocky. So it's okay as long as you are self aware and are able to grow out of it.

[@PichuElric]

That's probably what guys like that like saying afterwards

[@Metruzanca]

Started coding at 5 and still needed to go to college? That sounds like an anti-flex right there. I've had a couple people like this before. Just ask them basic technical questions and they'll dig their own grave. e.g. When I was first learning react, I had a guy tell me that "watch out, because nodejs is slowly replacing reactjs".... Okay, dude.

[@JulianSloman]

Bahaha that's really quite funny actually - Like React on the backend, things like NextJS - there's some cool stuff but none of it is _replacing_ react.

[@solaris5303]

Just because you know how to code doesn't mean that people will hire you without a degree.

[@Metruzanca]

​@@solaris5303 Just because you have a degree doesn't mean that people will hire you. Just because you have a degree doesn't mean you know how to code.

[@milistaparahacer8456]

@@solaris5303 yes they will lmao

[@bobthemagicmoose]

I went to a conference in Boston once, I now love to reminisce about my time at Harvard.

[@nicholast]

those were the days quite literally just a few days

[@November378]

Thank you, you made me realize that I work in Google actually I test their product every day! I am so excited and can't wait to add this to resume. Nice!

[@venomsn4kee]

It’s that kid that got bullied a lot and starts to adopt those traits as a way of masking their insecurities because they have to feel important and different, not knowing everyone can see through them and everything is projection, because they just can’t chill and let it go

[@technikal270]

Woke

[@radlad5600]

Real

[@kananelokatlehoraliapeng7239]

Jeez

[@max-tp1xv]

that one dude on the project, omg. cant help him. i really want to cross his name but i guess im just being too soft

[@poopbutt6241]

Can’t let go of trauma

[@TheRedCap30]

I tend to lag behind in my CS classes so each class can be a bit of a grind for me. Glad I don't know anyone like this 😅

[@aguynamedscott11]

Working for Umbrella Corporation while it was still a start up would have been pretty cool.

[@henrymellor9760]

The funny thing is that big tech companies just run through college grads and startups actually look for rare talent

[@sh00kspeared73]

I used to take a coding class on zoom and there was this one kid who'd always interrupt the teacher to talk about the stuff he knew about coding. He'd also refuse to mute himself during the class and loudly breathe into his mic lmao

[@human-ft3wk]

LOL, the imagery

[@BassGal92]

Thank goodness there isn't anyone like that in my program. Then again, most of the good jobs where I live are jobs that require security clearances. Throughout my time in grad school, I encountered: - A guy who looked like a KPop idol - A girl who doesn't want to work for the government because she loves weed too much - WAY too many people with degrees in something other than tech because they want money - A guy who one semester only showed up to one of his classes three times and his classmate didn't remember him

[@howardbaxter2514]

That’s funny. I’ve only ever met one person like this in my classes. Incredibly smart guy, but a complete dick. I’d consider all my classmates to be pretty much on par with each other. We are all equally clueless.

[@devonbotney2762]

I am a freshman in college who is currently majoring in Comp Sci. Love the vids and am dreading the interviews that I will have to go through but love the industry either way :)

[@mohammadzafar7891]

Yo same man. You wanna do some projects over the winter break if ur down

[@pm69669]

Same, it is concerning lol

[@dh5680]

@@mohammadzafar7891 ayo?

[@engineerepixlele2845]

Well done video dude. Perfect acting of "that kid" 🙏

[@mildhotpeppers]

Every STEM major I've ever met has at least a little of this guy in them.

[@user_2793]

Ifkr, it's so toxic

[@omegawario7479]

It’s like almost all of them find some way to tell you how smart they are

[@lucario4399]

Dude if you both are same, then your acting skills are way good 👍

[@nicholast]

nah that was my twin brother

[@shrif1313]

@@nicholast i knew it !

[@MIDNightPT4]

@@nicholast ☠️

[@sensus494]

Racist

[@juggtubman625]

This, but it was the entire faculty and student body. The primary reason I left comp sci for comp engineering.

[@jeremiahglover7562]

The running joke in the ECE department at my school is that most people in CompE really wanted to do CompSci, but they didn’t want to be one of _those_ kids.

[@navaneethkrishna.b6871]

Congrats on 75K Nicholas...Way to go!!

[@nicholast]

thanks Navaneeth!

[@JoshSaysStuff]

I was a boot camp grad before I got my current job as an engineer, and I only met one CS major like this at a dev meetup. He was so, SO condescending about every little CS-related thing, but he seemed nice enough otherwise. We hung out a couple of times, and I quickly realized that condescension was his default behavior. He kept asking me why I wasn’t using Linux, and he would make jokes about my iPhone whenever I used it. He asked why I coded on a Mac, and I told him that the program I attended had it rolled into the tuition. I also said that my current company-for which I had just started my internship before going FT-used them. He told me I should convince them to switch to Linux-based systems. (For the record, this is a multimillion-dollar company with very strong practices in place.) I eventually got promoted to a full engineering position, and this guy was super dismissive about it. He also liked to joke about JS and React as though he knew anything about it. I then found out that he had been applying to a number of BE and dev ops jobs but didn’t get any of them. (This isn’t normally a big deal - I put in about 80 applications before landing my internship, and even that is considered lucky.) The reasons he gave me for not getting the jobs always revolved around the company being behind the times, or not seeming like a good fit, or just being annoyed with the interviewers. I knew the truth, though. NOBODY in their right mind would hire such a pompous person without any professional experience. My company hired me because I demonstrated that I was curious, driven, and thrived when given feedback on my work. I didn’t act like I understood more than I knew, and I always asked clarifying questions. That behavior is invaluable to a company looking for interns. But if you’re a stuck-up CS major who probably annoyed the other CS majors around him? If you NEED to be superior? If you are constantly compelled to correct your peers in their perfectly acceptable coding decisions? Yeah. That’s not happening. We’re not friends anymore.

[@Giacccomo]

Honestly guys, with uni and work and life, just stay in your lane! Ignore these people. Once you start staying in your own lane and focusing on JUST you, you'll absolutely kill it.

[@partial1199]

There is always "that guy" in just about every career in the IT field. Just tell them they're smart and go about your day.

[@v0id_d3m0n]

Lol but say it weirdly so they leave u alone. "Omg man your intelligence makes me so hard" Problem dealt with.

[@impyrobot]

@@v0id_d3m0n my face when HR calls me in for disciplinary

[@woodant1981]

I'm in uni and can confirm there is a guy like this. Granted he's just good at everything but EVERYONE knows it. He also knows better than the lecturers and has done everything that everyone else has done and better (of course). What is he doing there if he knows everything? Who knows!

[@cplusplussizeddick1430]

does he actually know everything or are you sarcastically pointing at the fact that he thinks he does

[@jamess.2491]

lol as someone like this (except I’m introverted so never went out of my way to flex my knowledge) a lot of universities will FORCE you to go through the intro classes even if you’re far more advanced. I’d been programming since I was prob 12/13, so sitting in an intro Java class was miserable. Took about until year 3/4 when I actually had to start showing up for lectures.

[@io817]

i can totally relate nick , This was needed 😂😂

[@weirddingus4620]

It's sad that I've met even worse people than that guy at hackathons and in school...the lack of self awareness is staggering

[@youtuberdaily9638]

I see him getting at least 100k to maybe 200k by the end of the year. He has a lot of potential

[@Benry1]

Oh man, that brings me back to college… Nobody was that big of a douche about it, but the “big 3” interns were always so intimidating lol

[@GershonBenYitzhak]

I have zero ambition to work for a FAANG company. There are so many good jobs out there with a normal life/work balance that still pay really well and the projects are still interesting.

[@Josh-xh9qn]

Reminds me so much of an ex computer science classmate, insufferable, bragged about his coding skills even held the expectation he will work for Google one day. Well he ended up failing out of cs program and works as cashier at McDonald's

[@howardbaxter2514]

Honestly, what is with the hype for working for Google? It is such an overrated company.

[@Josh-xh9qn]

@@howardbaxter2514 No argument from me, I think people just hear its a great company to work for who hire supposedly intelligent people, if you get in people treat it as an accomplishment.

[@abdullahmaqsoodhere]

Man, even if he was a douchebag, I can't imagine what he would be going through right now, I wouldn't wish that even on my enemy, to have worked so hard and not be able to make it in life because that's all that matters in the end.

[@adwaittpandya7030]

This is so true, I know a guy who just wants to shove "I am better than everyone" fact into everyone's face. I also subscribed good videos :D

[@leslietetteh7292]

I never took Computer Science, but there was a guy like that on my Biochemical Engineering course. bragged about knowing Python and running a "server farm" when he was a teenager, interning at tech companies, etc. There was also a girl at my first workplace that'd literally namedrop every day working for Cisco. It turned out she didn't work directly for Cisco, but for a company that got bought by Cisco (actually a scam company I coincidentally knew about because I'd read Rupert Murdoch's autobiography). Then I found out another girl who was there, who I'd always thought was smarter (never being scared to help people, massive work output, very quiet but body language of complete confidence) had actually worked on the C++ imaging algorithm for the Mars Rover project, and they'd stuck her on the web frontend because they were douches. She never mentioned it, unlike the girl that bragged for working for Cisco every day, until i asked her where she'd been on holiday, and she reeled off a couple of countries and added as an afterthought "Oh yeah, and the Atacama desert in Chile when I was working on the imaging algorithm for the Mars Rover Project, it's most similar to the surface of Mars." I didn't start coding until I was like 28, in my spare time whilst working a full-time job, but I'm happy doing my job. When I left my first company (billion dollar company), I went to a bigger company (100 billion dollar company) with (in US terms) a five-figure wage increase, but I didn't really feel comfortable at either place tbh. I'd rather be productive and happy than have the prestige of claiming I work at a 100 billion or billion or even trillion dollar company and be unhappy.

[@jennahinckley8216]

The vibe is completely different in community college, I see. We got 2nd-years still asking how to input strings.

[@chronofactor2037]

I'm tempted to say "What does a plastic surgeon and me have in common: we both do back end work for your mom" if somebody tries this shit with me.

[@internetexplorer3596]

Gross, most moms that have college age children are in their mid-40’s or 50’s and fat. It’s more of an insult against yourself tbh.

[@annabellelin7730]

@@internetexplorer3596 I disagree. Your mom, for one, was an excellent lay

[@turolretar]

I guess you found her backdoor

[@TitaniumTronic]

@@internetexplorer3596 What a fucked generalization combined with fat shaming lol

[@jakobkleeman6705]

@@internetexplorer3596 how did internet explorer not get a youtube account until 3 years ago smh smh

[@cakedaddyhank7649]

went to school with a kid who bragged his whole family were engineers and he failed a test on variables 😂

[@Alex-oh6lj]

Yeah. This is why I dropped the only CS class I ever took. Whole class was like that guy.

[@elephantwaffle5612]

There are so many egos in computer science, just take one look at the answers on questions on stack overflow. Probably the most surprising thing when I went into this field. I guess that goes for most fields tho

[@omegawario7479]

It’s like others have said, a lot of these people don’t have any friends and push everyone in their life away because they neglected their social skills all their life. Now they are fragile, insecure, sad people with their academic accomplishments as the only thing they have to be proud of. So they cling to it for dear life as it’s the only way to validate their hopeless existence. They’re pitiful.

[@alcookie]

When I was new in the class, the guys told me I’m too hot for cs and offered me lessons at their home. i was literally like „mom pick me up, im scared” ✌🏻😃

[@socrative9810]

EWW LMAO why do they even do that

[@HennedySinatra]

software engineer.... in test bruh i felt so called out LMFAO

[@RoyalsRP]

Holy shit this is accurate. I just graduated in computer engineering and I knew a handful of people that followed this exactly.

[@OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld]

thabnks for the laughs mate struggling with Comp sci finals so i needed this. Subbed!

[@voidfroze]

I taught at a coding bootcamp and can confirm, the braggy douches who've been coding since they were 5 actually perform worse overall (and get worse jobs) than the random 35-yrold parents who've never coded before and just work hard to make up for it.

[@glowingone1774]

Nice story

[@kristinaf5135]

@@glowingone1774 someone's jelly

[@glowingone1774]

@@kristinaf5135 People who been coding since their teens are most certainly going to out perform a guy having a mid life crisis career change. Definitely a made up story.

[@kristinaf5135]

@@glowingone1774 whatever helps you sleep better dude

[@NN-sp9tu]

@@glowingone1774 Not necessarily. Some of those types are just too fucking weird to contribute anything useful. It's not surprising to me at all

[@siddhantmahajan9943]

Love these videos. Actually so relatable.

[@briankim49]

I've never met anyone in CS being so up-front about flexing their achievements. We already have enough regurgitating as much flex as we could while writing résumés and landing job interviews. As a rule of thumb, I think people who are really good and talented at coding is okay with just bending down and try to be just helpful and nice.

[@chronosbat]

This video has been in my recommendeds for SO LONG. I finally got to watching it.

[@TheSoloObserver]

With people that show off the best thing to say to them is "dude, I don't really care!" Give them a harsh reality check.

[@SVIN54]

I’m ngl this is the first video I’ve seen on this channel but I subbed purely cuz of how genuine he sounded.

[@connorwatson149]

I remembered in my Intro to Networking class, There were these 2 guys that argue with each other on who knew more about computers and networking.

[@MrGreen-ci2mm]

😂😂😂

[@henryfleischer404]

That's funny. I don't think anybody in my class has mentioned when they started coding... I'm generally doing very well, with about 100% +- 5% in the main programming class (and anywhere from that to exactly passing in other classes), and I had only used Scratch before the start of the first programming class at my college. I was pre-emptively humbled by people who learned to code without going to college. I had tried learning C# on my own, and very quickly failed. So I don't brag about things, and asked about 5x as many questions as other students. And when the teacher didn't have an answer, I'd put together an experiment to see what happens, usually in class, and then tell him the answer. This has helped me a lot. I feel like I'm doing well, as is the rest of the class.

[@crystallizedsyrup7594]

Yeah I'm lucky that none of my friends in my class are like that. Sometimes we are the one who asked the friend who work in the big tech hahaha. Otherwise He wont talk about it. Lucky that my friends are nice :).

[@joshurlay]

I'm in my first semester of CS and I was asking someone in a class discord voice chat how to do something specific and someone else chimes in how did you of all people get a 99 on the test when you didn't even know that. The guy who said it I guess was salty they got a 71. It is a math course that covers discrete math and I just transfered majors from a math major.

[@nicholast]

You should’ve asked him how he only got 71 since he knows everything

[@garrenmiller9434]

Gotta love when an intern/new hire calls themselves a software engineer/architect.

[@breadiusloafus5068]

I don't have a friend like that, but when we talk about our job, we just complain.

[@33v4.]

I love how these guys make fun of *REACT* Html & CSS but still want to go to.... Facebook. like do they even pay attention to what they say

[@supernova5434]

BuT ReAcT iS fRoM mIcRoSoFt!!!11

[@_quixote]

Scratch developers deserve more respect

[@xcel9769]

I remember having two of these guys in class and they got in a huge argument on whether an fpga is "programmable"

[@pyzard]

Why it wouldn't?

[@xcel9769]

@@pyzard I don't know why it wouldn't. It's in the name.. "field programmable gate array"

[@tjgdddfcn]

I thought you had an nft as the profile picture for a second

[@xcel9769]

@@tjgdddfcn it is an nft my friend made. Just not a stupid expensive one like bored apes are.

[@jackhawkins7285]

I always compare myself to these people, i’m in my 10th year of studying computer science but have always had to have a part time job on the side and never have as much free time as my fellow students and there accomplishments are a lot greater than mine

[@danhhoang9836]

it's funny that we all have this guy in our cs class

[@yamoe62]

I subbed. Going into tech is so intimidating, I’ve already met people like this😭

[@siderminerkgl8193]

You could also add: Kindergarten level math and reasoning(from quadratic equations to extreme stuff like how to find the max/min out of 3 numbers) Python scripts (ratio 90/10, where 90 is stackoverflow and 10 is other sources+some extreme effort to make a 9x9 tic tac toe) "Projects" that last for >3 days (full grind) and are something like a bad web scraper or auto-login to league. True story one of those guys made me really curious and a bit envy, when he told me (2y ago) that he wrote merge sort in C in just 5 lines without using libraries and without making the code unreadable ( when I asked about the code after I tried, he said he forgot it). So yeah you can add lying as well, I guess. That guy is now struggling to solve integrals, linear algebra type of exercises and perform basic tasks like converting hex->dec.

[@KookoCraft]

Damn maybe I really am that person.

[@FancyGuy]

I just noticed that when you haven't subscribed to a youtube channel, the button will glow when it hears someone say subscribe in the video, thats just cool

[@FuerzaEspectral]

Gotta love those guys, finally managed to land a Microsoft SWE intern spot after 3 years at college so it’ll be nice to have some rep finally 😂

[@varunnayak5369]

Yeah, there was one similar person in my year but different context. It was to do with university applications. I got rejected from Cambridge from their BA course after messing up my admissions test but I got an offer from Imperial. The person I'm talking about got an interview and I congratulated him when I found out because I was really happy for him. After that, he just wouldn't stop flexing his Cambridge interview and saying stuff like "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll get there for postgraduate studies anyway" and "I still can't believe that I've got an interview" like almost after he got the invite, just in front of me as though he was rubbing it in my face that he got it. Impressive it may be that he got it, there's no need for him to do this. After that, he had his interview which in his own words went "decent" and "didn't face any hard questions". A few days ago, when decisions came out for Cambridge, bro got rejected from them, which made me laugh. I didn't start laughing at him or mocking him like he did to me because I'm not that sort of person but instead said something like "that's really unfortunate and that it's really their loss" and things like that to comfort him. Then a couple of days later, he also got rejected from Imperial, which made me think that the tables have turned, but again, I'm not the sort of person to start randomly flexing in someone's face like he did so I tried to console him, at which point he realised that he had just been non-stop flexing unnecessarily without having actually achieved any concrete results in terms of securing offers.

[@carlitos4505]

Me: “Mom, can I have Joma?” Mom: “No, we have Joma at home.” Joma at home:

[@nicholast]

joma is too good

[@oponeuser7]

😂😂😂😂

[@channelDD25]

Bro that’s fkd up

[@RandomShowerThoughts]

Lmao 🤣, Nick is pretty good

[@TumblinWeeds]

Lmao Nick is like Joma, except actually funny

[@Taskade]

Fortune favors the bold, but is it worth risking everything for? Some people find themselves in a position where they are surrounded by opportunity and not feeling very lucky. The question then becomes if they should take that risky step or not..

[@rikthecuber]

Can you make some actual coding project tutorials along with these plot videos? It would be quite fun and educational.

[@tvenningmedia4334]

I'm not a coder, but I really really really like that you used that FAANG image. It encapsulates a lot, and it's not good things.

[@LouisChiaki]

I meant I file like 10 bug reports to Facebook and none of them have been fixed yet.

[@nicholast]

Get hired at FB, fix the bugs, then quit

[@HargunMujral]

Those LinkedIn posts get me every time 😅

[@quantum7046]

This is too accurate

[@autoingrement]

I'm just starting my studies in CS but I have bachelor's in archeology and had similar conversation with one of my classmates in year one. I asked her what she thought about an assignment we'd got the day before because I was struggling with it and she said "oh that, I already did that it was soooo easy, I thought university would be more challenging". It was 50% of the grade so definitely wasn't an easy one.

[@Fallenblood]

I am exploratory tester on KZbin and discord 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nicholast]

Thank you for your service

[@Fallenblood]

@@nicholast welcome 😁 it's pretty hard job

[@giftedbrownies1543]

I'm an econ major, but I can't bring myself to stop watching these cs videos

[@maxmyzer9172]

"so does facebook know you were 'working' for them?" "oh come on, facebook knows everything." lmao

[@v0id_d3m0n]

"Nick" "Oh, Nelson?" Heartstopper fan confirmed

[@user-james597]

loool

[@tuongphan9678]

I started watching you when you had like 500subs, good job Nicholas!

[@nicholast]

AN OG, I appreciate you

[@ironmenace]

U see one dude using handout another just waiting for the teacher to speak 🗣

[@floguo]

waterloo tech bro culture in a nutshell

[@nicholast]

FR THO

[@cracked4743]

Thank God I stumbled upon this channel. Instant sub to you homie 😎

[@nicholast]

Appreciate it 😎