I was originally going to include this in the my comprehensive guide on getting a software engineer job, but I ultimately decided against it as that article was getting quite long and, as you’ll find out from this article, there really is no secret sauce to breaking into Big Tech…

With the Tech Career Growth Community my friend Rahul Pandey and I have started, we are now helping thousands of developers get a software engineer job, with many of these developers looking for their first one. …

I’ve written a ton of articles about the software engineering job searching process, but there wasn’t any 1 article that cleanly and coherently brings them all together. That’s what this article does. Let’s get into it! Step 1: Create An Effective Resume Your resume is still the primary way for a company to vet you and…

A few days ago, I shared my new repo of organic, feasible, and at least somewhat original/unsolved side project ideas. Rahul Pandey and I have seen that a lot of engineers, junior ones in particular, have trouble exercising the product ideation muscle, which makes sense as they’re still learning how…

So I wrote an article almost 2 years ago about “How To Prepare For A Software Engineering” interview. I have since realized that it’s not sufficient to answer all the questions we get in Tech Career Growth community about #interview-prep as it’s really just about the studying portion. I have…

UPDATE: This article is now deprecated! Check out techcareergrowth.co to find the proper resource you need to advance your career in tech instead! As Rahul Pandey and I have built Tech Career Growth Community (TCG), we have spent hundreds of hours crafting in-depth, thoughtful, honest, high-quality resources to help everyone…

Finding a job as a junior engineer nowadays is hard, very hard. As I have talked about before, junior engineers are almost always prone to the vicious cycle of “I want work experience, but employers aren’t willing to give me a chance to get that initial work experience without having…

Intro & Context Welcome to Part 2 of my article series about how Rahul Pandey and I evolved our live, educational, tech sessions from accommodating 15 people to the ~750 people we get now. You can find Part 1 here. Anyways, after ~1.5 months, we were able to grow from the 15–30 person…

After over a year, it’s time to reboot this article series with another entry, which I’m honestly surprised I haven’t written about until now. Anyways, interviewing as a developer is one of the most mentally taxing processes you have to go through, so it’s crucial that you stay mentally healthy…