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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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