#143 The reality of the developer job market with ex-Googler YK Sugi
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews 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 Or you can listen to the podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow the freeCodeCamp Podcast there so you'll get new episodes each Friday. 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
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| 0:00.0 | You know, software development has never been for everyone. I think coding is for everyone. Everyone should learn to code to some extent. But beyond, you know, it's sort of like, you know, writing or reading. Not everyone has to become a professional writer. Not everyone has to become a professional software developer. But if that's what you want to do, I would, you know, 100% encourage you to do that. Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of FreeCodeCamp.org. |
| 0:45.5 | Each week we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people in tech. |
| 0:50.6 | This week, we're talking with Y.K. Sugi. |
| 0:56.6 | He's a software engineer and prolific YouTube computer science tutorial creator. He's worked at Google, Microsoft. He runs the |
| 1:02.8 | CS Dojo channel on YouTube, and he shares so many of his insights on software development, |
| 1:08.7 | AI, and the developer career progressions that are possible |
| 1:13.2 | when you're entering the space. |
| 1:15.2 | So be sure to check out his channel, but we've got the man right here in our midst. |
| 1:20.6 | YK, how's it going, man? |
| 1:22.5 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:23.5 | How are you? |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah, it's a pleasure to talk with you. |
| 1:25.7 | It's been many years since you and I talked |
| 1:27.5 | synchronously, and I'm a big fan of your insights that you share on your channel, and I'm |
| 1:33.5 | excited to learn more from you. |
| 1:35.3 | Well, I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:37.6 | Awesome. Well, let's start talking, just jump right into talking about AI, because AI is |
| 1:42.5 | something that you have been working very closely |
| 1:44.4 | with. You're over at Sourcegraph, which has created the Cody kind of like, if you, |
| 1:50.4 | copilot alternative, if you will. It's basically an AI tool that helps you write code more. It helps |
| 2:00.0 | with auto completion and probably helps with a lot |
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