200 LeetCode questions in 3rd year of college.
FAANG/BigTech job in placements
2 yrs in India, then move to US (sponsored by that BigTech) 7-8 yrs of laid back 5hrs/day work, with 30-40 leaves a year and slowly climb to L5
That's how majority folks turn millionaires by 30
Doesn't sound sexy or cool. Sounds counterintuitive, that if it is that straightforward, then why aren't more people doing it ?
Well if my estimates are correct, every year at least 10000 (probably 20000) Indian techies are doing exactly that.
Don't mistake this as advice to follow this path. (Hell I didn't, myself).
Don't mistake this as an indication of this being "easy" either
Getting into those jobs is not 'easy'. The path is well known and well trodden, but takes time and effort.
And finally, it is not 'easy' to actually stay on that track for 7-8 years too. We get bored way too easily when we have nothing to do.
People can come and say "you don't become better engineers that way", or that "without working at a startup you don't learn about ownership or products".
Fair enough. Both very true statements.
But if you want the most linear and risk-free way to get $1M at 30, there it is
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As I filed my tax returns I realised last year I paid more taxes than the sum of all taxes I ever paid before that in my life.
Also couldn't stop thinking about how I'm actively funding a machinery that propagates hate on a religion which was celebrating their festival that day
Every day for every 3-4 rupees I make, I contribute a rupee to this refined, well oiled machine, sprouting hatred in a refined, perfected manner for the last many years.
Muslim, Christian friends of my generation have literally been leaving the country to escape the oppression
I have been paying taxes, coincidentally, exactly since the BJP govt came to power. And not that bridges were not made (some fell too), or roads were not repaired (except in Bangalore), but I have a feeling mostly I have just been funding a terror org, just legally.
Today in India's tech ecosystem, if you ask *ANY*one, literally anyone, <5yrs exp, about what is the one thing they want to do to grow, 100% of them (including the Google engineers) say that they want to change jobs.
It is sad that we have over the last 1.5 years created a market where somehow everyone has FOMO. Everyone feels underemployed. 3yrs exp folks earning 50L found some outlier of an outlier on Blind earning $300k remote from India, and they now want that.
I am not saying when there is an open market, one should not look to optimise their net worth. But isn't it sad if you go out and do 100+ user interviews, mainly from highly aspirational companies, and 100% of them are looking to change jobs within 6 months.
Over the last 3 years or so I have had to hire/help-to-hire a lot of senior engineers, especially in small to mid startups.
Usually it is in a role where the person would be the main pivot of the team and be responsible for a project.
A thread on what has worked 🧵👇🏼
Over the last couple of years the tech hiring market has become more and more uphill. If you're a small startup, it is super challenging today. There are funded startups who are dying off because they are unable to corner tech talent. So the challenge is very real here.
Small caveat here - these are contextualised a bit towards Android, as that's what I have mostly hired for. Although the same methods and principles I have used for things like Node/Java backend too which has worked out well.
I don't build social media clout for a dopamine fix.
Social media clout today is part of the essential consumer survival kit.
It is not only easy to access redressal mechanisms with most B2C businesses if you have clout, but in fact the only process of it happening today.
If you do not have the capability to raise a rabble, you just have no insurance against bad consumer experience and dealing with faulty products/services in today's world.
This is just the Black Mirror-esque world we live in now.
"Social credit scores" actually exist
I have regularly had experiences where my problems got fixed - exact same problems for which my friends who are not active on social have gotten the short end of stick.
In fact, the extreme end of *this* very spectrum is B2C brands sending freebies to influencers.
It has been almost 7 years, I'm teaching people to code, make apps and websites.
It is interesting how a lot of movers and shakers in today's edtech ecosystem (esp in the programming space) can be traced back to one tiny office in Pitampura, New Delhi.
A thread 🧵👇🏼
Before me and Prateek, Coding Blocks originally was started by Ankush (who now runs Coding Ninjas) and Anushray (who later was CTO at CueMath for a long time)
Tushar used to teach there too, and went on to build Coding Ninja's initial tech stack and a lot of CampK12's product
When they left less than 2 years after starting it, virtually an empty office was left behind.
Along with Prateek and me, Priyanshu (now heads operations at Pesto) and Sumeet Bhaiya (who went on to create PepCoding) picked things up from scratch and started from 0 again.
The last few years I have been at the intersection of tech, content, hustle culture, startups, creator economy and the move towards more indepent work.
A thread about the current state and the road ahead. 🧵👇🏼
(Might as well add a dystopian prophecy trigger warning)
Today if you look around people are making a lot of noise about a few things
- remote work, freelancing, independent work
- side hustles, personal growth, financial advice
- creator economy, social media, YT/Insta growth
Seems doing all this is both sexy + essential to survive
Here's what I want to break it down at - it is sexy because some people you have come to like are constantly hammering that thought down your head.
Reality is, it is becoming a way of life, and that is making surviving in the modern world an increasingly uphill battle.