Worst Parts About Being A Software Engineer

[@TheRealDTV]

Comparison is the thief of joy .

[@pixieedust777]

Exactly!

[@merselfares]

fuel of succses...... "jeff who"

[@crunchwrapsupreme9372]

Amen

[@BeefIngot]

This phrase is the thief of joy. Imagine thinking you're wise for acting like people can or even should just start ignoring the world around them. Literally all of the reasons we advanced as a species make this next to impossible not to do We're social, have great pattern recognition (overactive even), and posses the ability to think about thinks as more than ephemeral thoughts.

[@Qqqqql]

@@BeefIngotyou’re wrong

[@shachede6828]

Number 3 is the fact that you used to be software engineer?

[@petshorts7292]

At google

[@sxlx]

ex-Google = ultimate flex

[@nandhiniperumal266]

😂😂

[@Me_334]

Lol

[@hardiksharma5650]

@@sxlx 🤣

[@rapidlapse]

Still waiting for Number 3. Have watched this 23 times already. Hopefully it’ll come up soon.

[@Raj-hv7mz]

It's being in a loop forever.

[@greenblue980]

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[@MrMetalWarlock]

He forgot the break; or it’s probably while(true)

[@adiru9252]

It's recursion, it's the worst!

[@ronakverma693]

He wants you to be addicted so he can be successful

[@rogersepeda]

Don’t ever compare yourself to other people. Everyone will succeed at different times in their life . Just be in competition with yourself. Just be a better you .

[@juzosuzuya9297]

That's a wisdom

[@akramdiafat9380]

My man is software engineer at Google and still consider him self unsuccessful if that so than I'm straight loser 💀

[@jediracoon5453]

Stfu bro is asian 😭…(ps:understand sarcasm for God’s sake)

[@akramdiafat9380]

@@jediracoon5453 I can't relate, (ps: I don't give shit)

[@nithin6654]

I don't even know skills what should I consider myself 💀💀

[@Goose619]

All that intelligence and he still needs to work for someone else. They’re depressed that they only know how to execute on stuff they’re told to do. They have fallen into a slave mindset. Even with all hag intelligence. They’re essentially addicted to a paycheck and are ashamed of it.

[@Sci-fi-gu7]

I mean he is an Asian and the standards where he grew up were probably way higher than ours so it kind of makes sense, but yah if I was a software engineer at google, which is harder to get in that Harvard, which also pays a ton, I think I’d be pretty damn proud of myself for making it that far.

[@hamzamuslim6141]

Number three "My salary is only 300,000 tc. I kinda feel bad about myself because there's this principal engineer who makes 2 million."

[@skywizard3319]

yes

[@skyisblue3847]

when his peer makes a million TC, 300k TC is not enough

[@IAmOxidised7525]

I make close to 2500 $ per month

[@fizzinsoda]

the fuck is TC, tiger cash?

[@I-do-not-read-replies]

@@fizzinsoda total compensation

[@kays3599]

This is very humbling. Thank you for sharing.

[@william.darrigo]

Learns how to code.. Everyone in your family: so when you're gonna build the next Facebook?

[@miloradowicz]

Give me a small loan of $1'000'000 and I'll think of building an Amazon. Until then, fuck off.

[@Bigmtj10678]

💀💀💀

[@MARKLEO-cc8vv]

Every day question

[@cinammondream]

This is really good and honest and respects the love of coding while highlighting that the job is still challenging

[@yamilmsilva]

BROOOO STAY POSITIVE!!! You are really good at it…. The reason why you didn’t start your startup doesn’t mean that you are not good enough. Just stay positive and you will achieve it. And also BE HAPPY and enjoy coding that is the main key “to enjoy “😊😊😊

[@Change765]

You’re thinking too hard homie. Just work to live. Remember they can replace you with a sneeze so make sure you take the skills you learned and apply it to the next. Don’t overthink it. Use them don’t be used. Work to live.

[@andiuptown1711]

Exactly

[@Rider0fBuffalo]

This is pretty accurate. I relate. It's a real pressure to know all the latest. Just have to take it in stride and be patient.

[@mazen.alsenih]

I’m a senior software developer and I can relate to everything you said in this video, the pressure to keep up and most importantly trying to escape the 9-5 hours by building a business and always struggling with time and energy. You are not alone man!

[@jl_117]

I got rid of number 2 before even getting into software engineering. someone else’s success and skills have nothing to do with your path. plus you don’t know their struggle. they might not necessarily be happy either

[@Draco_Tv_]

but knowing that someone still has less skills than you..makes you worried..thats what he says

[@lapuklapuk1413]

Never ever compare yourself :) enjoy your journey. Enjoy new learning consider it as your next PR.

[@alperentopay1164]

Let me ease your mind about number 2. Writing code isn’t going to make you a billionaire company builder. You’ll need to learn to talk to customers, understand their problems, how to price, and then get people to pay for what you made. Then you need to build distribution channels, a team, credibility. It’s a ton of work and you’re still not guaranteed to succeed. It’s very competitive and stressful. If you think staying up to date with frameworks is too stressful try learning all these skills and becoming real good at them while getting no pay. For every 20 year old billionaire software founder there are 100s and maybe 1000s who have failed. You don’t hear about those because failing is the norm in startups. Are you willing to let go of your $200,000 a year comfortable salary so you can spend 5-10 years of your life without pay to build a product that might not make you any money? You make a choice to not take that risk and be comfortable by taking a high salary job. Nothing wrong with that.

[@nightlycoltgaming408]

Thanks man, I also needed to hear that

[@jasonreviews]

that's everything in life.

[@marktuggle5609]

I am glad you said this. We tend to over hype the super successful and forget about the just as talented but not as successful people.

[@lucabernardini3975]

Right? Focus these energies to do your other hobbies apart from coding

[@TopStrikerMaverick]

Doomer

[@nocapent8878]

I feel u bro I want to be very successful but it’s all in due time if u put in the work

[@poipoi300]

copium

[@cupofjoen]

Same goes to visual designers. I got a lot of competitors and it makes me feel worthless for not being consistent to build my portfolio. It burns me out that I feel like I should go to pilot school instead.

[@CelestiumAim]

flight school seems really stressing but fun as well. excluding that part where it's just auto pilot

[@celestialarmor695]

What do you mean alot less competitors

[@cupofjoen]

@@celestialarmor695 not less competitor. Read the comment again will ya lol.

[@cupofjoen]

@@CelestiumAim it is fun, instead of sitting in front of computer stressing a danger called clients revision, being a pilot you'll face real danger and that's the thrill of it. You learned to plan ahead, brief with your PM or PF, read checklists and apply CRM. In design school nobody knows or teaches CRM which is needed for managing the team no matter what your profession is.

[@jesusisking8632]

God be with you bro

[@thedoortodarkness3619]

Because im not

[@sandeshverma517]

Number 3 is staying up late tilll 4 am to debug and trigger your migraine

[@aryankhotay6252]

Dude you touch my heart and solve my issues

[@SatpalSingh-rv7zo]

I appreciate you being honest with us and yourself

[@ranns2805]

You have to be happy with the success you have achieved, and stop stop stop comparing yourself to others. If you are not happy with your present situation, make yourself a list of how you can get to wear you want to be. Start on that list, one step at a time and pat yourself on the back every time you complete a step.

[@kaimenhibbert5800]

Essentially the worst part is your ego getting a little bruise

[@fjmorales6823]

it’s hard tho, I’m like 22 and I already feel really pressured to build the next big thing eventho I’m somewhat above average skillwise for a college student on my position

[@csy897]

Not only that though the fact that you have to keep learning in and outside of work hours does not sit well with a lot of people. I would not be able to do this if I didn’t like the part of software engineering I’m in rn

[@lewisjones284]

@@fjmorales6823 you are as pressured to build the next big thing as a business major is to make the next Amazon. It is all self imposed, and if that is not what you’re interested in, you do not need to do so. Success is measured in many metrics, and money isn’t necessarily the primary factor

[@zigotina]

yeah 'mental health' my ass, you just lazy

[@kajal_869]

I so needed to hear the second one😢

[@SimplyTakara89]

Everything you said I’m already worried about and I haven’t even learned all the basics yet, like I’m struggling just to learn the CSS portion.

[@sydguitar99]

Legitimately the first point is so true because I know other engineering Fields where you really don't have to learn new things that often unless your company directly tells you but with software engineering you really have to always be researching new things

[@HiiImChris]

Thx mister. I'm at University in a software engineering program and I started completely green a year ago with 0 knowledge. I've been improving but I really have slowly been trying to get a better understanding of working conditions, often only the positives are discussed so I appreciate some honesty What's NUMBER 3?!??!

[@youarecorrectiamwrongbecau1338]

ex-Google >>> Google The goto mindset in tech

[@lolleymcconnell]

Thank you for this video. I know we all struggle with feeling successful enough.

[@JoselitoScience]

Your mic is so good what was it?

[@saucecards3583]

Put in the work boy

[@ptks257]

“ comparison is the thief of joy”

[@scarletlady9870]

This is how I feel right now. After going through a fellow woman’s LinkedIn profile. She’s so successful she’s even in London. And she graduated like four years ago?

[@yyydollars8456]

How developers think they can make a million/billion dollars start up: 1- technical skills 2- idea!

[@liam1902]

When you get a lot more experience as a developer (especially Full-Stack), then you realize that you can make almost anything into reality.

[@yyydollars8456]

@@liam1902 I'm sorry but it's not that only. It's about connections, knowing your product well. Like to me knowing how to do UX/UI is way way more beneficial than development when founding a start up. It's never easy to anybody and I'm saying it from experience!

[@liam1902]

@@yyydollars8456 I didn't say that's the reason why developers are able to make a successful startup, I just stated that it's cool when you're a developer and end up learning/knowing a lot because then you could have a vision and create a startup. And I agree, connections are obviously very important since you need different types of co-workers (devs, product, etc) and also VCs to help fund your startup.

[@scrotiemcboogerballs2133]

​@@liam1902 is full stack something a beginner can get into with proper prep? Or is the traditional route recommended (html, css, js+). Or can we start on the backend? How to get to full stack?

[@BeefIngot]

@@yyydollars8456 My brother I Christ, do you think that A. The type of person to know full stack development won't understand ux or ui B. That someone who only knows ux or ui can magically learn software development and C. That second person will magically have the funds to pay for someone else to do the legwork for their idea? Ideas are cheap. Implementing them and selling them are expensive and hard.

[@fresk9139]

I am a junior developer and what you said is soooo true!

[@LizVictoria]

Your content is amazing!

[@goobertnelius]

i actually like coding just because it's fun and I love coding in my free time so in my opinion its the best part of the job because I love coding

[@nicolofrongia8537]

Bro don't struggling, we studied a lot, we are bery prepared, everyday i have the same feeling, but we have a power that the mojority doesnt have! I follow you from a while and is like we live the same life!!! Hang on my buddy❤

[@tekkie_]

I am in the same boat and I agree with you a 100%. It’s really sad.

[@shahsawoodshinwari]

I would agree with your first talk

[@brandonholtz5309]

Thanks man. Totally can relate lol

[@bc2647]

Woooowwwwww...thanks 🙏 for opening my eyes up ...stuff I would never think about

[@julianomatsuo2666]

Man.. the second one is a hard one.. wish you luck to always get something better though . 👍

[@Mykaboy1245]

Loop is perfect xD

[@NumeroCinko]

My point is why should one feel bad about themselves comparing with some other random person's success? Not everyone is same and hence not everyone's current situation is same. Have a nice day😊

[@ambiasmr297]

Worst part: something always breaks at the worst time. Like right before your vacation/hoilday, right before code breeze, at 5:59Pm, right before a demo, when upper management have their eyes on it. And you are always on call as if you are a doctor but the frustrating thing is about 90% of the time you dont know wtf is wrong. Everytime you deploy into production you are holding your breath and praying to the dev Gods because eventho everything works find in staging and passed all the test, 50% of the time it will always fail in prod.

[@orangeapple681]

Bro youre doing way better than me. I have what I have and worked hard for it but the truth is, even if you're really good at something if its a low leverage skill you will never get paid as much. I meet mediocre people all the time that make 2x or 3x what I make just because they have a higher leverage skill. Im now learning skills that I was never interested in before so I can get more leverage when the abilities I have now should be enough to fking exist 😆

[@lewisburton1852]

Bro got stuck on number 2 for a hot second you can tell it really bothers him. Just go for it dude! At the end of the day you still have great skills to get another job if the startup doesn’t work out.

[@nriched]

Another point is that even if you become a software engineer you wont get a really good project/role to showcase your talent. Work becomes mundane when you repeat same thing again and again

[@stefanstuffin]

Those are my top two as well

[@christianhowell3140]

Ok clever loop idea ill give ya that

[@HaveyouheardYT]

I see what you did with that #3 🤣🤣🤣

[@jazztech1581]

How much do you make rn? I used to be this way but I opened a start-up anyway because I thought i have all the great ideas and i know how to do an app from scratch.

[@uniqueux]

Damn this is deep. But what did you engineer?

[@jmonroe3858]

Dude, what's #3?

[@reizendecamera]

what frameworks must I learn?

[@mentalmigs]

I'm starting to think of coding as a game. You got to keep up with the meta and see what's trending or really effective. You need to polish your skills and get better before you start earning respect and gaining recognition. It takes time

[@TheMindBlownZone11]

You still will build your own startup!

[@csy897]

Felt confident teaching juniors only to find myself watching KZbin videos and learning very basic things I should have known but are not used in my company so I had never seen it before and therefore getting imposter syndrome. My comfort to myself is to remember that I’m good at the problems I’ve met with before and can possibly get good at problems I’ve never met. People who are good at the problems I’ve never seen before may not be good at the problems I’ve seen.

[@maxpilling7796]

Number 3 is the friends we made along the way

[@mluevanos]

I feel the same, man

[@elektranat]

help i’m stuck in the looping and will never know reason number 3 😭

[@novascotia2015]

No social life as software Engineer. You speak less and stare at laptop

[@mrbmw320i3]

Was in the same boat, felt useless for working for someone else, so I Started my own start up. Not at all successful. So don't worry about feeling worthless. You are doing just fine.

[@waisalmakaleh9836]

Studied software for 2 years and realized this is a field I'd never stop studying for so I quit. Not saying it's terrible but software engineering was never my passion and saw it as a way out of poverty, but seeing that all I did for almost 12 hours a day every day and still fell behind everyone else, I saw no light at the end of the tunnel. I decided to spend my time and energy studying engineering instead. Math rarely changes and science is pretty much linear, I won't have to worry about a new scientific method popping up that I would have to learn or risk being left behind in the industry. Stressful stuff...

[@The_Warden44]

How did u make the switch I’m in a similar position now and questioning it all but I do like engineering and science

[@waisalmakaleh9836]

@@The_Warden44 I just stopped one day and really thought about it. If software engineering is something I'd be happy doing for the rest of my life, and that's when I realized that it wasn't. I went back to college and focused what I liked which is engineering. It still makes makes good money, maybe not as much as a software engineer but at least I'll be happy.

[@kancharlaaishwarya2069]

Ahhh im not alone who has this feeling. Though settled as SDE in one of MAANG companies, I always feel unsuccessful & compare myself with others .

[@saraeissa4954]

I mean if you want to create a startup I’m working on a hardware software product and we’ll need a website and app so I need a developer for it. The product is revolutionary

[@braden473]

What job did you transition into after you stopped being a software engineer?

[@TheBlackManMythLegend]

I can relate bro I feel like that.

[@jasminekaur565]

What do you do now?

[@subinkv6849]

It doesn't feel like worst parts

[@T_dollasign]

Your good bro

[@aneligonzalez944]

Don't be so hard on yourself and keep up the work of course

[@humanrightofway4u]

You got this

[@haroldmortega831]

Doing startup business is entirely different topic altogether. That 20 year old has created a business model. Even if you know all the programs and frameworks that's only one part of the whole business process. You have to learn "business". The marketing, sales, research and development, building networks and partnerships, learning some government laws, taxes, etc

[@hardikshivhare-dt9ib]

I agree with the second part

[@chrislords_dpt]

Number 1 is really how every person that wants to stay ahead in their profession should be, especially when it comes to healthcare. When you have patients lives depending on you, you have an obligation to stay up to date on research and refine your skills outside of working hours

[@DonJohnson-e3x]

Damn bro kept it real

[@NutsNBerries]

You don’t have to start one But stay in the field with us

[@vikingthedude]

I relate to number one but not number two

[@Timtimzi]

Sounds like the aerospace industry to me

[@AkashLahaPotrait]

I can feel you bro..... Same here 🤍

[@georget8008]

The worst thing in being a software engineer is that your career path trajectory never approaches the top management. There is a glass ceiling....

[@theencryptedpartition4633]

What do you think about being a theoretical computer scientist tho?

[@SamratAJ]

Do not Guage your success with money.

[@irfandy8]

WHERE S THE OTHER SHORTS

[@newperson4889]

Thanks for being honest

[@berserkervtuber6285]

Imposter syndrome hits every IT person I see

[@aleksy920]

Probably I will be stuck for entire life thinking that I don’t know enough to get my first job😔😔😔

[@heathbruce9928]

It's really normal to spend your free time learning more about tech. Unless you work for the state. I was chastised about recommending to the help desk that they learn more about the products they were supporting.

[@lokolizarraga]

Thanks!

[@YourAverageTechBro]

Anytime 🙂

[@RealPatelGroup]

Feel the same bro

[@Dareyoutoyry]

How's the pay out tho? I'm currently training to be one so I'd like to know

[@andrew-song]

You’ll make a steady, livable income. Software engineering’s wages are generally overstated by misguided people, as many of them see it as their one way ticket to upper middle class, socioeconomic status.

[@AmirGolmoradi]

hey , guys , for working in companies like google as a software engineer, learning Java is a must ? or i can ignore it Please answer, guys ❤ 😅

[@AlexandrBorschchev]

If I had decent social skills, I think I could be anything. Im fine with coding and all that honestly, I just could not communicate like a regular person who obviously has a normal life, it's always an anxious struggle.

[@somebradly]

I thought I was alone. Thanks

[@pietart3596]

Imposter syndrome is why it's good to have hobies besides coding. You not only get a sense of refreshment but also freedom from a programmer's mindset

[@sarcasticMoose]

The first one is a perfect way to burndown.

[@SrivastavNilesh]

Number 4 is you can be kicked out anytime...

[@vishalprasadacoustic]

Why?