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The reality of the developer job market with ex-Googler YK Sugi [Podcast #143]

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On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview YK Sugi. He's a software engineer and prolific YouTube Computer Science tutorial creator.

He's worked at Google and Microsoft. He runs the CS Dojo channel where he shares his insights on software development, AI, and developer career progressions.

We talk about:

  • Emerging AI tools and how developers are adopting them

  • The role of interest rates in developer hiring

  • Japan's developer work culture VS the US

  • How not to burn out

Can you guess what song I'm playing in the intro?

Also, I want to thank the 10,993 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

You can watch the interview on YouTube:

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

  • YK's freeCodeCamp article on the resume he used to get a job at Google: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/heres-the-resume-i-used-to-get-a-job-at-google-as-a-software-engineer-26516526f29a/

  • YK's freeCodeCamp article about leaving his job at Google to focus on entrepreneurship: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-i-left-my-100-000-job-at-google-60b5cf4ebefe/

  • YK's popular CS Dojo YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CSDojo

  • YK on Twitter: https://x.com/ykdojo

Source: freecodecamp.org

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