The Brutal Truth About Software Engineering
This programmer landed six internships and multiple six-figure offers, then watched his dream return offer vanish. In this video, he lays out the hidden costs of a 9-5 engineering job and the tradeoffs that pushed him away from Software Engineering and toward YouTube and entrepreneurship, plus how “knowing the game” (referrals, LeetCode, timing) still got him hired fast.
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