A Life Engineered

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.

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/kunchenguid https://www.youtube.com/@kunchenguid https://kunchenguid.substack.com https://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.

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

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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=en https://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.

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.