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How I Got a $475K Offer: My SWE Job Search Playbook

Austin shares his software engineering job-search experience and introduces a practical course on experience, résumés, applications, interviews and negotiation.

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0:00In March of 2020 I applied to over

0:0250 different software engineering jobs ended up getting

0:06one interview at Amazon and zero offers in

0:10total Less than two years later in September

0:12of 2021 I had job offers from TikTok

0:16Square Roku Microsoft and where I ended up

0:20choosing at Oscar Health More recently I've applied

0:23to different job opportunities and have received offers

0:26from Coinbase Figma Series D startups paying me

0:31over 475 000 per year and in my

0:35current opportunity a software engineer at Headway This

0:40course is designed to teach you how to

0:44do the same So if you're an engineer

0:47looking for your first internship if you're an

0:50engineer looking for your first junior level software

0:53engineering job or if you're just curious about

0:56exploring the tech space and want to see

0:58what does it really take to get these

1:01jobs paying 100 000 150 000 even 200

1:06000 per year stop and follow me because

1:10this isn't going to be a single video

1:13This will be a multi part course to

1:16help you get the job of your dreams

1:20This course will be structured in the following

1:22ways So the first part will be discussing

1:24how do you actually create a resume to

1:27attract the attention of these high paying software

1:31engineering jobs It will also include a section

1:34on how to revise your LinkedIn profile Then

1:37we're going to be talking about how do

1:39you actually find the jobs that you want

1:41to apply for Are there special lists Are

1:44there super secret GitHub repos that you should

1:47be looking at Or is there another way

1:50of getting these software engineering jobs Then we're

1:54going to talk about the interview process How

1:57do you study for the technical interview How

1:58do you study for the behavioral interview And

2:01more recently a new interview section is how

2:04do you study for the AI coding round

2:08This is one of the most important rounds

2:10and yet no one is talking about it

2:13Jobs like Meta Figma Hedwig all these high

2:17paying opportunities want to know can you code

2:20with AI Are you a bi coder or

2:22do you know how to engineer software using

2:26AI Finally we'll have a section on job

2:30negotiations At the end of this course you

2:33should be equipped with the skills needed to

2:36get your high paying software engineering job Send

2:41this video to a friend that has AI

2:45anxiety and wants to get this high paying

2:48software engineering job

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