The Best Tech Career Advice For 2025 (From 15 Tech YouTubers)

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TLDRIn this video, multiple tech professionals share essential career advice as 2024 wraps up. They focus on actionable advice for navigating a tech career in 2025, emphasizing the importance of seeking mentorship from those just ahead in their careers, showcasing work to build a personal brand, embracing narrative storytelling, and taking ownership of one's career growth. Key strategies include setting clear career goals, improving communication by bringing solutions to meetings, and being proactive in learning and problem-solving. Viewers are encouraged to implement one piece of advice to make a meaningful impact in their careers this coming year.

Conclusões

  • 👥 Seek mentorship from successful people to gain direction.
  • 🌟 Showcase your work publicly to build a personal brand.
  • 🗣️ Ask specific questions for tailored advice.
  • 📅 Create a career growth roadmap with check-ins.
  • 📝 Write down your plans to clarify and share your goals.
  • 🚀 Focus on solving impactful problems that others avoid.
  • 🤝 Build trust with your manager for growth opportunities.
  • 💡 Always come to meetings with solutions, not just problems.
  • 🔍 Dive into the details to enhance your skills effectively.
  • 📈 Don't remain comfortable; seek new challenges to grow.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The video introduces several tech professionals who share valuable career advice for 2025. The host emphasizes the importance of seeking advice from successful people who can guide you toward your goals while recommending that viewers ask specific questions to receive actionable insights.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Jeff advises that the best mentors are those who are only a step ahead in their careers, as they can provide relatable advice. He encourages viewers to seek guidance from those who remember the challenges of entry-level jobs while suggesting engagement with leadership to connect with more accessible mentors.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Num emphasizes the importance of showcasing one's work publicly to build a personal brand and prepare for interviews. He advocates for practical experience through interviews and encourages viewers to share their projects and engage actively in networks for increased growth opportunities.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Utsav stresses the need for software engineers to take ownership of their career development. He recommends setting clear goals and collaborating with mentors while consistently checking in with their progress to alter and adapt their plans as necessary.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:27:45

    Jason advises taking initiative by solving problems and creating solutions without seeking validation initially. He underscores the importance of being proactive and using practical projects to showcase capabilities, suggesting to act rather than overthink ideas.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • What is the key to receiving valuable career advice?

    Seek advice from successful people, look for good communicators, and ask specific questions.

  • Why is it important to showcase your work?

    Actively showcasing your work helps build your personal brand and increases visibility in your field.

  • How should one prepare for career growth discussions with a manager?

    Create a roadmap outlining career goals and check in quarterly to assess progress.

  • What is the significance of storytelling in a tech career?

    Storytelling helps you own your career narrative and makes you memorable to others in your field.

  • What should you do to tackle problems at work?

    Focus on solving impactful problems that others may avoid, enhancing your visibility and credibility.

  • How can writing down your plan help your career?

    It clarifies your thinking, creates sharable artifacts, and increases your visibility.

  • What is the importance of building trust with your manager?

    Trust allows you to take on projects that help you grow and advance in your career.

  • How can someone avoid becoming too comfortable in their job?

    Ask for more responsibilities and seek new challenges to ensure continuous growth.

  • What's a crucial step to take before going into meetings?

    Always come with potential solutions, not just problems, to demonstrate thoughtfulness.

  • How should you approach learning new skills?

    Don't skimp on details; learning thoroughly pays off long-term in your career.

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    reached out to me and asked what's your
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    that most people ignore but could start
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    hope this was useful and thank you Steve
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    for inviting me to be part of this video
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    cheers hi I'm Jason goodison I've got a
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    found this helpful wishing all of you
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    happy holidays and a fantastic New Year
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    keep learning and keep rocking hey
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    everyone my name is Rahul I have a
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    where I share career advice for software
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    Engineers from my time in cicon Valley
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    storytelling storytelling is about
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    explaining your project your job your
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    you why you're interviewing at this
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    company if I ask you about what your
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    career goals are I am asking you for a
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    instead you should own your story and be
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    an active participant the people with
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    the best careers are the ones who tell
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    rates for a certain demographic of users
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    something about something and that is so
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    much more attractive one of the
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    realizations I had is that you can't
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    change what actually happened but you
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    can't assign meaning to it and that
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    means you're empowered to update your
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    story even if it didn't go exactly how
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    you planned so instead of saying I got
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    you could say hey I transitioned out of
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    out building something from 0 to one at
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    that happen as a tech worker in the
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    modern day you're going to have a lot of
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    throughout your career so what I want
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    you to do right now today is think about
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    what kind of story will you be able to
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    tell based off the work that you're
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    doing the people who you're working with
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    and then use that as a really powerful
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    input to figure out if you should be
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    making a change or what you should do
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    with your career thank you for including
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    me in this video I have a huge amount of
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    respect for what you do I hope you and
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    everyone watching has a restful and
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    enjoyable holiday season hey everyone my
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    name is Kevin and I'm currently working
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    as a software engineer at Google if I
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    had to give you one piece of advice that
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    you could start doing today but most
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    people probably ignore that is to start
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    diving into the details of all the
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    different things that you learn about
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    and are responsible for at work
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    something like this might sound really
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    obvious but I definitely found
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    especially early in my career this was
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    something that I kind of avoided uh
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    relentlessly I tried to to constantly
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    just learn enough to get the task done
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    at hand whatever that might have been
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    maybe that was learning 20% of a topic
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    or less and just do what I needed to do
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    to get that thing done and I realized
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    two things throughout doing this
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    constantly the first thing was that it
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    didn't actually always work or pan out
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    the way I wanted it to so what I mean by
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    that is I would go and do the thing or
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    what I thought was doing the thing or
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    accomplishing the task and then I would
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    quickly learn that I did it incorrectly
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    or inefficiently and I would have to go
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    back and do it again so because of that
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    I learned that ironically often times
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    when you ignore the details or don't
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    learn the underlying Concepts and topics
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    or what's happening under the hood of
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    something that you're tasked with doing
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    you might actually ironically spend more
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    incorrectly first and then have to go
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    back and learn the details anyways so
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    spare yourself the headache and the
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    frustration and just learn the details
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    at the beginning and upfront the first
  • 00:12:52
    time the second thing that this will
  • 00:12:53
    teach you and will do for you is it'll
  • 00:12:55
    actually pay dividends throughout your
  • 00:12:56
    career if you learn something really
  • 00:12:58
    well and really intricately down to its
  • 00:13:00
    core that is really valuable learning
  • 00:13:02
    that other people might not have and
  • 00:13:04
    you'll be able to carry that with you
  • 00:13:05
    forward throughout your career so that's
  • 00:13:07
    my tip for you today definitely make
  • 00:13:08
    sure to start doing that now don't
  • 00:13:10
    ignore the details dive into them head
  • 00:13:12
    first and learn them really well thanks
  • 00:13:14
    so much Steve for allowing me to be a
  • 00:13:15
    part of this video and I hope everyone
  • 00:13:16
    has a great holiday
  • 00:13:18
    season hey Steve this is Zach with data
  • 00:13:21
    with Zack I make data engineering and
  • 00:13:23
    software engineering content for
  • 00:13:25
    software Engineers who are trying to
  • 00:13:26
    build data focused careers I worked at
  • 00:13:29
    Facebook Netflix and Airbnb over a
  • 00:13:32
    seven-year job hopping career and now I
  • 00:13:35
    do this full-time as a full-time Creator
  • 00:13:37
    uh Steve gave us a really wonderful
  • 00:13:39
    prompt this time around he says what
  • 00:13:42
    career advice that most people ignore
  • 00:13:45
    that you could start implementing today
  • 00:13:48
    and my perspective on this is you really
  • 00:13:51
    need to be having conversations with
  • 00:13:53
    your manager to understand their
  • 00:13:55
    perception of you and how much they
  • 00:13:58
    Trust you because your
  • 00:14:01
    career can only grow as quickly as the
  • 00:14:05
    trust between you and your manager
  • 00:14:07
    because if your manager doesn't trust
  • 00:14:08
    you very much they're going to only put
  • 00:14:11
    you on projects that you can 100%
  • 00:14:15
    definitely deliver on and if you're in
  • 00:14:17
    that zone you are not in the growth Zone
  • 00:14:20
    that is not how you get the staff
  • 00:14:21
    engineer that's not how you get the
  • 00:14:22
    principal engineer you need to be on
  • 00:14:24
    projects where you feel like there's
  • 00:14:26
    like a 20 to 30% chance
  • 00:14:29
    that you might mess up and the only way
  • 00:14:31
    that you're going to be able to get on
  • 00:14:33
    these projects is if you have a manager
  • 00:14:36
    that trusts that you will grow into that
  • 00:14:39
    project and deliver it and that is a big
  • 00:14:42
    thing that you want to be testing so
  • 00:14:44
    some things to be thinking about or ask
  • 00:14:45
    your manager what do you think I'm good
  • 00:14:47
    at where do I need to grow in order for
  • 00:14:50
    us to build trust so that we can grow
  • 00:14:52
    our careers together and I can make you
  • 00:14:54
    look good and you can help me get to
  • 00:14:57
    senior get to staff so yeah I would say
  • 00:15:00
    that's going to be the the underrated
  • 00:15:02
    career advice that I I got for you Steve
  • 00:15:04
    um but anyways this is uh data with Zach
  • 00:15:07
    signing
  • 00:15:08
    off happy holidays folks my name is Matt
  • 00:15:11
    hang I work in strategy and Ops at
  • 00:15:13
    Google and I currently run a YouTube
  • 00:15:15
    channel under my name where I talk about
  • 00:15:17
    everything that I've learned working on
  • 00:15:19
    the business side of tech and management
  • 00:15:22
    consulting now when I think about a
  • 00:15:24
    piece of advice that most people ignore
  • 00:15:27
    but which can be really helpful
  • 00:15:29
    regardless of whether you're working on
  • 00:15:31
    the business side or if you're in a more
  • 00:15:33
    technical role like a software engineer
  • 00:15:35
    or data scientist one of the best pieces
  • 00:15:37
    of advice that I've ever heard is that
  • 00:15:39
    you should always always always try to
  • 00:15:43
    go to a meeting with not just problems
  • 00:15:46
    but also Solutions and I know this
  • 00:15:48
    sounds really basic but you'd be
  • 00:15:49
    surprised how many people just go to
  • 00:15:51
    meetings and present all sorts of
  • 00:15:53
    problems to their manager to their
  • 00:15:54
    director and don't end up actually
  • 00:15:57
    proposing any kind of path forward
  • 00:15:59
    and so from the perspective of your
  • 00:16:01
    manager you're just the guy that comes
  • 00:16:03
    with problems but never Solutions and
  • 00:16:06
    that's not what you want to be known as
  • 00:16:08
    and so what I would recommend is that
  • 00:16:10
    even if you're not able to get a
  • 00:16:12
    solution let's say you've tried five 10
  • 00:16:15
    times different things to try and get to
  • 00:16:17
    some sort of answer and you still can't
  • 00:16:18
    figure it out at least come with some
  • 00:16:21
    sort of path forward that you can
  • 00:16:22
    propose to your manager that'll help you
  • 00:16:25
    get closer to An Answer even if you
  • 00:16:27
    can't get to an answer today or a week
  • 00:16:29
    from now because coming with only
  • 00:16:31
    problems is honestly low effort and if
  • 00:16:35
    you can at least try to come to the
  • 00:16:38
    meeting with some sort of path forward
  • 00:16:40
    or a solution this demonstrates that
  • 00:16:43
    you're just that much more thoughtful
  • 00:16:45
    than the average person who just comes
  • 00:16:48
    with
  • 00:16:49
    issues but anyways that's all I got for
  • 00:16:52
    you folks and I hope you're all having a
  • 00:16:54
    great holiday season with friends family
  • 00:16:57
    and loved one peace
  • 00:17:00
    hello my name is Puja dut I'm a software
  • 00:17:03
    engineer at Microsoft and I also have a
  • 00:17:06
    Career Tech advice Channel called puet
  • 00:17:09
    the question is what software
  • 00:17:11
    engineering advice do most people ignore
  • 00:17:14
    but you could start doing it today so
  • 00:17:16
    for me that's choosing to solve problems
  • 00:17:18
    that no one else wants to solve and I
  • 00:17:21
    can kind of break this down into two
  • 00:17:22
    different aspects so when you're working
  • 00:17:25
    on a software engineering team sometimes
  • 00:17:27
    it's really hard to take a break words
  • 00:17:29
    ey view of what's going on at the team
  • 00:17:31
    level and also at the organization level
  • 00:17:33
    and what creates the most impact at the
  • 00:17:35
    company a lot of times we get bogged
  • 00:17:37
    down by I want to work on something
  • 00:17:39
    that's interesting and challenging which
  • 00:17:41
    is great and I think you know you always
  • 00:17:43
    want to be stimulated by good problems
  • 00:17:45
    but at the same time if you focus your
  • 00:17:48
    efforts on solving problems that are
  • 00:17:50
    really impactful for the company but
  • 00:17:53
    also problems that no one else really
  • 00:17:55
    wants to touch things that are a little
  • 00:17:57
    bit more difficult to problem solve
  • 00:17:58
    through
  • 00:17:59
    then you will be golden I think those
  • 00:18:01
    two things could really change your
  • 00:18:02
    career it gives you a lot of credibility
  • 00:18:05
    with both your manager and your skip
  • 00:18:06
    level manager it also gives you
  • 00:18:08
    credibility on the team as someone who's
  • 00:18:10
    willing to kind of get down and dirty
  • 00:18:12
    and do things that you know others are
  • 00:18:14
    just unwilling to do and at the end of
  • 00:18:17
    the day you know you can also just uh
  • 00:18:19
    coast and collect a paycheck and just do
  • 00:18:21
    the work that you're given um but to
  • 00:18:24
    progress in your career a lot of times
  • 00:18:25
    you have to have a more holistic view of
  • 00:18:27
    what's going on around you and make
  • 00:18:29
    those decisions yourself um don't wait
  • 00:18:32
    for someone to tell you what to do find
  • 00:18:34
    problems and and find solutions to those
  • 00:18:37
    problems present your findings to your
  • 00:18:39
    manager and then push forward to change
  • 00:18:41
    things on your team I think having that
  • 00:18:43
    sort of influence it comes over time but
  • 00:18:46
    it can be really helpful with your
  • 00:18:49
    career hey what's up everyone it's Melky
  • 00:18:51
    I'm a machine learning software engineer
  • 00:18:54
    at twitch I've been there for 3 years
  • 00:18:56
    and I'm looking forward to giving you
  • 00:18:57
    guys some career advice help and wishing
  • 00:18:59
    you all the best during the holiday
  • 00:19:01
    break right now so what is the piece of
  • 00:19:04
    advice I would give to software
  • 00:19:05
    Engineers right now that most ignore but
  • 00:19:07
    could apply today and I think that would
  • 00:19:10
    be to not get comfortable I think it's
  • 00:19:12
    super easy in Tech especially when
  • 00:19:14
    there's these high paying salaries when
  • 00:19:16
    you get senior and used to your job that
  • 00:19:18
    you get very comfortable and I truly
  • 00:19:21
    think comfortability can potentially
  • 00:19:22
    kill any further potential any
  • 00:19:24
    individual can have and that doesn't
  • 00:19:27
    mean you have to go to a different
  • 00:19:28
    company right away way but if you are
  • 00:19:30
    comfortable in your role ask for more
  • 00:19:32
    responsibility ask for things that you
  • 00:19:34
    can do to make your a senior or go to
  • 00:19:36
    different teams put yourself in constant
  • 00:19:38
    uncomfortable positions cuz those will
  • 00:19:41
    eventually force you to learn and keep
  • 00:19:44
    developing your knowledge as opposed to
  • 00:19:45
    being someone who's been in the same
  • 00:19:47
    team same company for so many years you
  • 00:19:50
    know everything people come to you you
  • 00:19:52
    have this tribal knowledge but you
  • 00:19:54
    yourself haven't fully grown in however
  • 00:19:56
    long so I truly think something that I
  • 00:19:58
    think most software engineers get really
  • 00:20:00
    used to is getting comfortable so watch
  • 00:20:03
    out for that don't let that happen to
  • 00:20:04
    you and apply right now if you've been
  • 00:20:07
    comfortable if you're like yeah that's
  • 00:20:08
    good if you don't have the motivation to
  • 00:20:09
    get out of the bed do something about it
  • 00:20:11
    and change right this
  • 00:20:14
    instant peace guys hope you have a good
  • 00:20:16
    one this was Melky thank you guys so
  • 00:20:19
    much see you later it's really nice of
  • 00:20:22
    Steve to invite me to be part of the
  • 00:20:23
    video my name is Alex win and you can
  • 00:20:26
    find me over at Alex win so after
  • 00:20:30
    working at a few big tech companies my
  • 00:20:33
    biggest software career advice that most
  • 00:20:34
    people could start doing today is just
  • 00:20:37
    solving problems that affect multiple
  • 00:20:39
    people so this includes a lot of people
  • 00:20:41
    like your customers your teammates and
  • 00:20:44
    your cross functional Partners these are
  • 00:20:46
    the problems you want to prioritize
  • 00:20:47
    first so if you're on call and you make
  • 00:20:50
    the on call Process better your
  • 00:20:52
    teammates are going to love you for it
  • 00:20:54
    if you're working on a feature and you
  • 00:20:56
    come up with a safer way to roll it out
  • 00:20:58
    your product prodct manager wants to
  • 00:20:59
    know about it if you solve all these
  • 00:21:01
    problems you're going to get visibility
  • 00:21:03
    really really fast now finding these
  • 00:21:06
    problems is not always going to be easy
  • 00:21:08
    or obvious and the best way for you to
  • 00:21:11
    do that is just listening to side
  • 00:21:12
    conversations that your teammates are
  • 00:21:14
    having if they're all complaining about
  • 00:21:16
    Cod deployments are really slow odds are
  • 00:21:19
    other people want that fixed too and my
  • 00:21:21
    favorite way of getting involved in a
  • 00:21:23
    problem is by writing a document talking
  • 00:21:26
    about what the problem is why it's worth
  • 00:21:28
    solving and outlining a solution put
  • 00:21:31
    that all in a document have a meeting
  • 00:21:34
    with everyone else and get alignment on
  • 00:21:35
    the solution if you follow through on it
  • 00:21:38
    you're going to get a lot of respect and
  • 00:21:41
    credibility as someone who can get
  • 00:21:42
    things done now the funny thing is that
  • 00:21:46
    if you work on a problem that other
  • 00:21:48
    people are aware of or they're thinking
  • 00:21:49
    about odds are they might be thinking
  • 00:21:52
    about a solution to it too so to really
  • 00:21:55
    own a problem what you want to do is you
  • 00:21:57
    want to write the first page and that
  • 00:22:00
    really just means just writing a
  • 00:22:01
    one-page document on what the problem is
  • 00:22:03
    and why it's worth solving share that
  • 00:22:05
    with everyone and they'll all trust you
  • 00:22:07
    that you are working on it and that
  • 00:22:09
    you're going to figure it out if you
  • 00:22:11
    keep working on problems that affect
  • 00:22:12
    more and more people I can promise you
  • 00:22:15
    that you're going to Skyrocket your
  • 00:22:17
    career I hope this helps and happy
  • 00:22:20
    holidays hey so my name is Peter and I'm
  • 00:22:22
    a product lead at ROBLOX I also write a
  • 00:22:25
    newsletter for 100,000 readers at
  • 00:22:28
    creator economy. so so Steve asked me to
  • 00:22:31
    share my best career advice for 2025
  • 00:22:34
    that you can start doing right now so
  • 00:22:36
    here it is stop asking for permission to
  • 00:22:39
    do your best work stop asking to have a
  • 00:22:42
    call to pick someone's brain and to grab
  • 00:22:45
    coffee stop chasing the same jobs that
  • 00:22:47
    everyone else is chasing and stop being
  • 00:22:50
    defined by your company or job title on
  • 00:22:53
    your LinkedIn instead what you should do
  • 00:22:55
    is you start chasing your curiosity
  • 00:22:57
    online and have have the career
  • 00:22:59
    opportunities come to you here are a few
  • 00:23:02
    tactical ideas you know do a deep dive
  • 00:23:04
    on your dream company log all the points
  • 00:23:07
    of friction that customers experience
  • 00:23:09
    using the product and write it up and
  • 00:23:11
    send it to the product leader at the
  • 00:23:13
    company on Linkin start building
  • 00:23:15
    Relationships by actually adding value
  • 00:23:18
    number two use AI or another tool to
  • 00:23:21
    ship a website or an app solve a
  • 00:23:23
    specific problem that your Target
  • 00:23:25
    customer is willing to pay for that's
  • 00:23:27
    more impressive to to me than any paper
  • 00:23:30
    credential and finally just start
  • 00:23:32
    sharing your ideas and thoughts online
  • 00:23:34
    start replying to people you respect on
  • 00:23:37
    X and Linkedin with your thinking and
  • 00:23:39
    your perspectives it's not about chasing
  • 00:23:41
    followers or going viral it's about
  • 00:23:44
    being defined by your authentic self
  • 00:23:46
    instead of by your company or job title
  • 00:23:49
    do this consistently and I promise you
  • 00:23:51
    that the career opportunities will come
  • 00:23:53
    to you in 2025 you won't just be another
  • 00:23:56
    resume in the pile or another r person
  • 00:23:59
    that wants to pick someone's brain
  • 00:24:00
    you'll be someone that people actually
  • 00:24:02
    want to talk to and someone that people
  • 00:24:04
    want to give you opportunities for thank
  • 00:24:06
    you so much and have a great 2025 hi
  • 00:24:08
    everyone I'm Ryan Peterman and I create
  • 00:24:10
    content to help software Engineers grow
  • 00:24:12
    their careers I speak mostly from
  • 00:24:14
    experience growing from Junior to staff
  • 00:24:16
    at meta in three years and I'm starting
  • 00:24:18
    to produce more content on YouTube so if
  • 00:24:21
    you're interested in that you can take a
  • 00:24:22
    look I'm just producing content under my
  • 00:24:24
    name Ryan Peterman so the question is
  • 00:24:27
    what's your best software engineering
  • 00:24:28
    career advice that most people ignore
  • 00:24:31
    but you could start doing today there's
  • 00:24:33
    one advice that I think is probably one
  • 00:24:37
    of the easiest things to do it's one of
  • 00:24:39
    the highest leverage things to do and
  • 00:24:42
    it's something that very few Engineers
  • 00:24:44
    naturally do and that advice is to write
  • 00:24:46
    down the plan and there's three reasons
  • 00:24:49
    why you should the first reason is that
  • 00:24:51
    it clarifies your thinking as you're
  • 00:24:54
    writing down the plan you actually get
  • 00:24:56
    clarity on what the plan is why you're
  • 00:24:58
    doing it maybe some of the edge cases
  • 00:25:00
    will come up too as you're writing this
  • 00:25:02
    helped me a lot when I was writing
  • 00:25:04
    design docs and for larger initiatives
  • 00:25:06
    where there's a lot of different moving
  • 00:25:07
    parts and pieces for me to get clarity
  • 00:25:09
    on so even if I just wrote the plan for
  • 00:25:12
    myself I would have gotten a lot of
  • 00:25:14
    value out of it but the value doesn't
  • 00:25:16
    stop there because the second reason why
  • 00:25:18
    you should write down the plan is
  • 00:25:20
    because you create these sharable
  • 00:25:22
    artifacts these artifacts are useful to
  • 00:25:25
    look back on during execution or when
  • 00:25:28
    you're trying to evaluate the success of
  • 00:25:30
    of your plan but also it is a very
  • 00:25:33
    scalable way of sharing your plan with
  • 00:25:35
    others and so this is useful when you're
  • 00:25:38
    just trying to get alignment or explain
  • 00:25:40
    to others what the plan is you can just
  • 00:25:42
    share them your writing but also it's
  • 00:25:44
    useful too when you're looking back for
  • 00:25:46
    performance reviews your manager at some
  • 00:25:48
    point will need to share your work with
  • 00:25:50
    others and if it's already detailed and
  • 00:25:53
    clear writing it's much easier for a
  • 00:25:55
    manager to get you a good performance
  • 00:25:58
    review that you deserve and the last
  • 00:26:00
    reason that you should write down the
  • 00:26:02
    plan is because it enables more
  • 00:26:04
    opportunities sharing all that writing
  • 00:26:06
    around with your name on it increases
  • 00:26:09
    your visibility it builds your internal
  • 00:26:11
    brand and this increases your luck
  • 00:26:13
    surface area a lot of growth to the
  • 00:26:16
    staff level and higher depends on luck
  • 00:26:19
    and opportunity and so writing down the
  • 00:26:21
    plan will just increase your luck and so
  • 00:26:24
    that's why those are three reasons why
  • 00:26:26
    you should write down the plan the irony
  • 00:26:28
    of career advice videos is that watching
  • 00:26:30
    them feels like progress but it's not
  • 00:26:33
    looking at these creaters Journeys there
  • 00:26:35
    is one clear pattern they're all action
  • 00:26:37
    takers but they don't take random action
  • 00:26:40
    they gather insights choose carefully
  • 00:26:42
    and then move decisively so here's my
  • 00:26:45
    challenge to you pick your favorite
  • 00:26:47
    piece of advice from what you just heard
  • 00:26:49
    and commit to implementing it don't just
  • 00:26:51
    let this be another video you watch and
  • 00:26:53
    forget take what resonates and put it
  • 00:26:55
    into practice in 2025 be the person who
  • 00:26:59
    does things not just the person who
  • 00:27:01
    knows things there's a stark difference
  • 00:27:03
    between the two I want to thank all of
  • 00:27:05
    the creators who contributed to this
  • 00:27:07
    video they took time out of their busy
  • 00:27:09
    schedules to share their hardw insights
  • 00:27:11
    with you you'll find links to their
  • 00:27:13
    channels in the description they're each
  • 00:27:15
    worth following for more in-depth
  • 00:27:17
    perspectives on Tech careers I've also
  • 00:27:19
    created a Discord community of over
  • 00:27:21
    8,000 Tech professionals who are focused
  • 00:27:23
    on implementation not just consumption
  • 00:27:26
    join us there to share your progress
  • 00:27:28
    ress get feedback and connect with
  • 00:27:30
    others who are putting these ideas into
  • 00:27:32
    practice let's make 2025 a year of
  • 00:27:35
    action I can't wait to see what you
  • 00:27:37
    accomplish this year if you enjoyed this
  • 00:27:39
    video take a look at this video for more
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