Steve Huynh
@ALEngineered
YouTuber | Software Engineering | Career Advice Helping professionals achieve goals with a life engineered.
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Expectation: Graduate → Entry-level → Work hard → Get promoted → Repeat → Be the boss → Retire Reality: Graduate → 1000 applications → Entry-level → Company restructures → Start over → Industry disrupted → Layoff → Learn new skills → Change careers → Company…
I've noticed what separates good engineers from great ones. Good engineers: Write a lot of code Finish tasks Understand the tech Can explain complex things Great engineers: Delete a lot of code Ask if those tasks even matter Understand the tech AND understand the business Can…
Kevin was stuck at Amazon for 7 years as a mid-level SDE with no promotion in sight. Then he did the unthinkable: he quit. The results: 2 promotions in 2 years by job-hopping Tripled his salary Went from "bad interviewer" to multiple Staff offers in big tech There’s no way he…
That reading habit post hit 276K impressions and got picked up by Business Insider. But here's what really matters: the habit itself. One month later, the results speak for themselves: Better writing (absorbing professional techniques) Clearer thinking (books vs. fragmented…
The highest-performing developers I worked with at Amazon asked better questions than everyone else. After 18 years in tech, here's what I learned: while average engineers jump to solutions, exceptional ones pause to ask the right questions first. The 6 questions that separated…
I think there's more reverse ageism in the tech industry than traditional ageism. When someone looks older, I tend to think by default that they know more and question them less. When someone looks like they're straight out of school, it's hard for people to take them as…
My life didn't go as planned. I graduated with a creative writing degree but still became an Amazon Principal Software Engineer. Two decades ago, I got a reality check: I wasn't going to make a decent living with creative writing, at least not at first. So I asked myself three…
I spent years thinking that being the "go-to expert" was my ticket to success. I was wrong. I was the expert so every issue was assigned to me. I felt important. I felt valuable. But I wasn't growing. This is what I call the "Expertise Prison" where your competence at one…
Most people fail at the most basic thing when writing a document or presenting to senior leadership. You need to ask yourself, “What is the ONE conversation I want to have with this audience?” When you get some of their valuable time it’s important not to waste it. It also…
The difference between Senior and Staff/Principal levels isn't technical skills. The difference is mindset. After 18 years at Amazon, I saw hundreds of people get stuck at Senior level. They all knew how to code, but they never learned to think like the levels above them. Here's…
Burnout is real. But it's not inevitable. Here's what kept me going: 1. Know What Actually Rejuvenates You Taking vacation isn't enough. Find what truly restores your energy, not just what feels like "time off." 2. Define an End-Date for Stressful Periods Humans can endure…
The AWS outage is more impactful than the federal government shutdown.
Kevin was stuck at Amazon for 7 years as a mid-level SDE with no promotion in sight. Then he did the unthinkable: he quit. The results: 2 promotions in 2 years by job-hopping Tripled his salary Went from "bad interviewer" to multiple Staff offers in big tech There’s no way he…
Every tech downturn I've seen (Dot com bubble, Great Recession, and whatever this is) follows the same pattern: 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞. Layoffs don't mean tech is doomed, they're just a self-reinforcing cycle as companies mimic each…
Here’s five different templates that you can use to ask better questions. Dumping your knowledge on everybody is an ineffective way to tell people that you’re smart. Asking intelligent questions is the best way to show people that you’re smart. How do you ask better…
Been thinking about why some engineers plateau while others keep growing. It's not intelligence. It's not even work ethic. It's whether you treat your work as practice or as performance. Practice mindset: "What can I learn from this?" Performance mindset: "How do I look good…
The difference between Senior and Staff/Principal levels isn't technical skills. The difference is mindset. After 18 years at Amazon, I saw hundreds of people get stuck at Senior level. They all knew how to code, but they never learned to think like the levels above them.…
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