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Graduated from college at 28 (had to do 3 years of military in a foreign country). Studied business, looked at bankers and consultants and couldn’t see myself ever in their shoes. Stayed at college one more year to get a minor in computer science (all I could afford, and felt I needed to get into the working world as soon as I could). Never coded before mid 2017. Graduated in 2018, worked for Infosys and got $67k total comp. Left after a few months to work for this startup as the sole engineer (I studied my ass off to become a full stack engineer (freecodeacademy, Udemy courses). Comp was $80k but I was paid as a contractor. Three months in the founder was doing some shady shit and playing games with my employment/contract (he was rotating engineers by promising them equity and to build stuff then fired them). By family recommendation, I pressed charges and we settled. I took the money and moved back in with my dad and said fuck it. I’m going to pursue my childhood passion of becoming a music producer. Right before covid hit. Couldn’t have been worse timing. Dad lost job. Tension at home, had to get the fuck out. Moved in with girlfriend as I studied React and Figma. Scored a job at another startup as head of product. $135k total comp, startup ran out of funds 2 months into my role (investors folded). Ended up trading stocks, had to figure out how to make money. Somehow ballooned my account to $400k from meme stock madness. Friend recommended I get into crypto, lost 80% of it after a few months. Don’t daytrade. Not worth it (I can talk more about this). Spent the next 3-4 months studying node and express, built an app for a friend that has a business idea that “is gonna make so much money”. SOB didn’t pay me a dime and eventually ghosted me, but the experience in building that app was worth its weight in gold. Spent another two months trying to apply for software engineering jobs, studying LC and algo expert. Cold applied to tons of jobs. Hit up recruiters on LinkedIn nonstop. Managed to land 2 interviews: Flexport and Amazon. Flexport rejected me on first round (on a very dumb problem, but I’ll never know because no feedback). But Amazon? With all the crazy rounds and leadership principles and everything I somehow pulled through and knocked it out of the park. Not going to lie, still have imposter syndrome. But am glad I made it through. All it takes is one opportunity and with a lot of preparation you can do anything. This post was just to share my story honestly. And to give some insight for those who want to work for a FAANG. I know I know, Amazon seems to be at the bottom of the FAANG ladder, but hopefully this gets me a seat at the table and I can work my way into better roles/companies. For those that have been in the industry for a long time, how should I maximize my situation? $0 net worth at 32 is a slight bummer (had student loans). Wish I had some savings. Single, no gf or kids (honestly would prefer to build myself up a bit before any of that) Front End / Fullstack Developer TC $200k #tech #life #career
If it makes you feel any better you’re way ahead of doctors who are still in debt until their late 30s (no offense to docs)
Very true, and they have many years of education
Well, I did have quite a solid portfolio and tweaked my resume to its fullest potential. I was getting hit up by Amazon recruiters quite a bit in the past for AWS I think (maybe Kindle team too). But yeah, I’m very grateful for the opportunity
Honestly sounds like you're way too obsessed with career ladder and comparing yourself to others.
Mmm not sure what you mean by being obsessed by career ladder. Going for startup roles is pretty risky, as opposed to shooting for a corporate job with a more obvious “career ladder”
congrats. just focus on increasing your financial security and optionality and you’ll be fine. avoid big luxury purchases
Thank you. Yes, not planning any major purchases any time soon
You have low NW at a very bad time. Try not to get piped at AMZN.
Thankfully I’m on a team that is actually in dire need of engineers, within a department that’s in a “growth” phase. Spoke with my manager the other week and said I have nothing to worry about. Worst case scenario if they dissolved the team they would just reallocate me to another one
I hope things work out well for you.
This inspirational post belongs to linkedin
How’s this inspirational??
This is probably the average life of a young Korean male
Haha yeah.. and Taiwanese, Singaporean and Israelis
We’ll, it’s not just the service aspect, but also that you lost most of your gains on crypto. That’s really Korean trait too :)