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Deep conversations with people who've had exceptional careers to inspire you to have your own exceptional career.

  1. I Coached an Amazon Engineer From Mid-Level to Senior (Live)

    42 MIN AGO

    I Coached an Amazon Engineer From Mid-Level to Senior (Live)

    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale 📘 AI can write your code. It can't tell your story. Behavioral interviews are the new differentiator, and I wrote the book on them: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-yt If you want to be in the hot-seat for the next video like this, apply here: https://forms.gle/121P4FhVhxkBaPiq5 🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! ➡️ http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=dhruv-sponsored 💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers.  The advice section is *chef's kiss* -  https://discord.com/invite/HFVMbQgRJJ 📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter -  https://alifeengineered.substack.com/ Dhruv is an L5 engineer at Amazon with five and a half years of experience — and he's doing what 90% of smart engineers do in interviews: telling stories that sound great to him but get him down-leveled. Steve Huynh, a former Amazon principal engineer who conducted nearly a thousand interviews as a bar raiser, coaches Dhruv live on the three things holding him back: decoding what the interviewer is actually asking, picking stories that land at L6, and packaging them so the interviewer can capture his signal before the debrief.

    1hr 9min
  2. The 2% of Engineers Winning the AI Era (Ex-Meta L8)

    27 APR

    The 2% of Engineers Winning the AI Era (Ex-Meta L8)

    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale 📘 My book Technical Behavioral Interview hit #1 on Amazon. If you're interviewing soon, this is the playbook: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-yt Guest Links:https://linktr.ee/kunchenguidhttps://www.youtube.com/@kunchenguidhttps://kunchenguid.substack.comhttps://x.com/kunchenguid 🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=kun-chen-sponsored Kun Chen reached E7 at Meta and Partner level at Microsoft faster than almost anyone his peers knew — and then walked away from management to go back to writing code. Now a solo builder, he breaks down the monthly growth test that told him when to quit, why learning to lose control as a manager made him a better AI orchestrator, and why true vibe coders will always hit a ceiling without real engineering experience underneath them.

    1hr 37min
  3. Casey Muratori Doesn’t Care About AI (Here’s Why)

    13 APR

    Casey Muratori Doesn’t Care About AI (Here’s Why)

    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale Guest Links:https://www.computerenhance.com/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annarettberg/meow-the-infinite-book-three https://x.com/cmuratori 🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=casey-muratori2-sponsored Casey Muratori has spent 20 years writing code by hand and still couldn't care less about AI — not because he thinks it won't work, but because programming is the point, not the output.

    1hr 27min
  4. I Tried Everything to Get Hired. This Is What Worked.

    30 MAR

    I Tried Everything to Get Hired. This Is What Worked.

    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale Guest Links:https://www.instagram.com/anjali.gama/?hl=enhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/anjali-viramgama 🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=anjali-viramgama-sponsored Anjali Viramgama grew her online following to half a million people by turning her own learning into content, while working full time in Big Tech. Since then, she has coached hundreds of students into their first tech roles. She breaks down why “follow your passion” is bad career advice, how she applied to the same role ten different ways, and why depth of specialization — not just the ability to prompt — is what will matter most in an AI-driven industry.

    43 min
  5. The Career Strategy That Survives AI

    16 MAR

    The Career Strategy That Survives AI

    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale Guest Links:https://a16z.com/author/anish-acharya/https://www.linkedin.com/in/anishacharya 🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=anish-acharya-sponsored From building at Amazon in the early 2000s to selling a company to Google, Anish Acharya has spent his career chasing the edge of where the most ambitious people are working. He breaks down why enterprise software is oversold, how AI coding agents are unlocking a generation of builders, and what it takes to show up with a founder mindset no matter where you sit.

    43 min
  6. $1.25 Billion CTO: The Career Mistake That Cost Me 9 Years

    2 MAR

    $1.25 Billion CTO: The Career Mistake That Cost Me 9 Years

    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale Guest Links:https://es.linkedin.com/in/tuomasartmanhttps://linear.app/about 🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=tuomas-artman-sponsored What separates a high-level CTO from a Senior Engineer? And what is the one mistake that can stall your trajectory for nearly a decade? Co-founder and CTO of Linear Tuomas Artman has navigated the highest levels of technical leadership and knows exactly what it takes to scale both systems and careers.

    48 min
  7. OpenAI and Meta E9: The Career Bet Every Engineer Must Make

    16 FEB

    OpenAI and Meta E9: The Career Bet Every Engineer Must Make

    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale Guest Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/suphiliphttps://molochinations.substack.com/ https://superphonic.fm/ 🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=philip-su2-sponsored The "event horizon" for software engineering has arrived, and former Meta I9 engineer Philip Su says the traditional developer role isn't coming back. Discover why your most valuable skill may no longer be writing code.

    1hr 14min
  8. Tech Interview Expert: AI Isn’t Killing Careers, But THIS is

    2 FEB

    Tech Interview Expert: AI Isn’t Killing Careers, But THIS is

    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale Prepare for your next interview the smart way with Hello Interview: https://www.hellointerview.com/?ref=alifeengineered 🚀🚀🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=stefan_mai-sponsored Stefan Mai walked away from Meta and Amazon to build Hello Interview, and what he's learned about AI's impact on hiring will surprise you.

    1hr 19min
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Deep conversations with people who've had exceptional careers to inspire you to have your own exceptional career.

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  • Creator
    Steve Huynh
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Explicit
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