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Today, I talk to my best friend from college, Vithi Peters. We talk about how to make friends in college, red flags in friendships, and if Vithi secretly hates me. Enjoy!
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I’m Aman Manazir, a career coach and software engineer. I interned at companies like Amazon, Shopify, and HP in college, and the day I graduated I landed a $168,000/year* full-time software engineering job. I help you make it as a computer science student and land your dream job.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:26 - Our First Time Meeting
01:56 - The Second Time Meeting
05:00 - Why Vithi Hated Aman
08:14 - The Difference Between A Discussion And An Argument
09:02 - The Heated Dinner Party Argument
10:46 - What Changed In Our Friendship
12:05 - Q1: How Do You Approach New People Without Coming Off Weird
22:38 - The Software Engineering Accelerator
23:08 - Q2: How Easy Is It To Make Friends At The Workplace?
33:45 - Q3: How Many Friends Are Optimal?
36:46 - Q4: Do You Feel Like You Fall Out Of Friendships?
38:14 - Q5: When Can You Be Vulnerable With Someone?
41:38 - Sign Up For Thoughtful Thursday
41:55 - Q6: How Do You Make Friends Without Drinking?
52:07 - Q7: What Did You Learn From The Friendships That Ended?
58:54 - Q8: How Do You Choose The Friends In Your Close Circle?
1:09:38 - Q9: How Do You Know The Friend Group You’re In Is The One You Want To Stay In?
1:16:40 - Q10: How Do Friendships Change As You Get Older?
1:19:18 - Conclusion
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Today, I talk to Karen Bello. We discuss how she started as a personal assistant making minimum wage to starting her own Air BnB empire with millions in revenue. Enjoy!
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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - How Did She Become a Personal Assistant?
3:54 - What Did She Study in College?
4:07 - How Did Her Mindset Change?
6:02 - Rich Dad Poor Dad
7:40 - Transition After Being a Personal Assistant
9:22 - What Made Her Think She Could Start A Business?
10:25 - Working as a Therapist
16:00 - Airbnb Business
21:55 - Growing her Business in The First Year
23:18 - Getting The Confidence to Start
26:20 - Rental Arbitrage
30:53 - Managing Time Working Two Jobs
32:05 - Scaling Her Business
34:05 - How Does Cohosting Work?
40:02 - Profit From Year One
41:04 - Cohosting vs. Rental Arbitrage
45:05 - Balancing Two Full Time Jobs
46:10 - Where Did She get her Drive From?
48:30 - The Value of Networking
51:07 - 3rd Year Numbers
54:50 - How is The Business Now?
58:45 - Where Does She Want to Take The Business?
1:00:00 - What Does The Team Look Like?
1:01:27 - How to Find an Assistant
1:04:15 - What Does an Assistant do?
1:09:04 - Advice for Airbnb Businesses
1:12:30 - How Does an Advanced Person Learn?
1:16:15 - What's The Next Step?
1:20:52 - Focusing on Your Niche
Karen's Contact Information:
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336-459-9756
I'm Aman Manazir, a career coach and former software engineer. I make videos about making it as a computer science student and landing your dream job. I post new videos regularly, run a tech interview podcast, and run an email newsletter (https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter).
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In episode 4 of Lift Off with Aman Manazir, I talk to Sourish Kundu. We discuss how he landed a machine learning systems engineer job at TikTok, what it's like to work there, and how AI will transform the software engineering industry. Enjoy!
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0:00 - Introduction
0:58 - How Sourish got into Reinforcement Learning
6:29 - The Value of a Passionate High School Teacher
8:28 - Would Sourish Consider Teaching
9:59 - How did Sourish Land his First Software Engineering Internship
13:40 - Advice for Freshman/Sophomores Looking for Internships
16:55 - How to Supercharge your Experience with Personal Projects
18:40 - Recommendations for Contributing to Open Source
20:30 - How Sourish got Prestigious Internships at Amazon and Capital One
22:48 - Discord Bots Help to Prepare for Interviews
23:40 - How many Practice Problems do you need for an Interview?
26:05 - How Sourish Started at TikTok
28:02 - Advice for a Software Engineering Interview
30:00 - Sourish's Experience as a TikTok Intern
31:52 - Sourish's Advice for Getting a Return Offer
39:20 - Day in the Life as a TikTok Machine Learning Engineer
42:20 - How is Sourish's Time Allocated?
45:49 - How has Sourish Improved at TikTok
48:45 - How Engineers at TikTok are Different
51:12 - How is ML Different than Other Fields?
53:30 - Best Resources for getting Deep in ML
55:18 - Machine Learning Papers
57:18 - Advice to Prepare for an AI Future
59:12 - Sourish's Experience with Public Speaking
1:01:00 - @3blue1brown Inspiration
1:02:00 - Sourish's YouTube Channel
1:03:25 - How Sourish Gets Ideas for Videos
1:07:03 - How to Get Started on YouTube
1:09:31 - The Value of Mentors
1:11:24 - How did Exercise Help Sourish?
1:13:23 - Advice for People to Improve their Fitness
1:18:35 - How did Self-Improvement Content Help Sourish
1:20:42 - Living in California
1:22:40 - Starting a Social Life in a New City
1:25:31 - What Makes a Close Friend?
1:26:50 - Sourish's Advice for his Younger Self
1:27:40 - Where to Find Sourish
1:28:10 - Outro
I'm Aman Manazir, a career coach and former software engineer. I make videos about making it as a computer science student and landing your dream job. I post new videos regularly, run a tech interview podcast, and run an email newsletter (https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter).
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Today, I talk to Akash Bobba. We discuss how he landed a Meta internship as a freshman, a Palantir internship as a sophomore, and how he got into Berkeley MET, one of the most competitive programs in the USA. Enjoy!
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0:00 - Introduction
0:42 - Akash's Journey into Software Engineering
2:34 - From Childhood to First Project
5:27 - Why Akash Started Coding
9:12 - Dominating Hackathons
13:26 - BeamJobs: Crafting the Perfect Software Engineering Resume
14:36 - Lessons from Hackathons
18:04 - Picking the Right Team
19:48 - High School Speech and Debate
21:44 - Sharpening Leadership Skills in Model UN
23:13 - Inside the Berkeley MET Program
28:11 - Securing a Meta Internship as a Freshman
29:44 - How to Land a SWE Internship as a Freshman
32:20 - Palantir vs Meta Internship Differences
33:22 - Struggling to Get an Internship
35:24 - Thoughtful Thursday Insights
35:40 - Choosing the Right Projects
36:55 - Life at Palantir
38:30 - Getting Involved in Blockchain at Berkeley
40:31 - Must-Join Clubs at Berkeley
44:21 - Top Classes for Engineers at Berkeley
47:07 - Software Engineering Course Breakdown
47:29 - Best and Worst Classes
52:52 - Akash's Favorite Activities at Berkeley
54:59 - Inside Hyper House
58:34 - Living with Lots of Roommates
1:02:46 - Making Friends in College
1:10:57 - East vs West Coast Cultural Differences
1:13:22 - Advice to My Younger Self
1:17:16 - What's Next for Akash
1:19:10 - Final Thoughts
I'm Aman Manazir, a career coach and former software engineer. I make videos about making it as a computer science student and landing your dream job. I post new videos regularly, run a tech interview podcast, and run an email newsletter (https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter).
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In episode 2 of Lift Off with Aman Manazir, I talk to math prodigy Sunny Sahu. We discuss how he got machine learning internships in high school, how he got a full scholarship to the University of California-Berkeley (and why he broke it), and why he turned down a $500,000/yr job offer at Headlands Technologies and so much more. Enjoy!
0:00 - Introduction
01:19 - Why Sunny Took Calculus At Age 11
05:19 - How Math Olympiad Changed Sunny’s Life
10:22 - Sunny’s Experience at USA Math Camp
11:36 - Writing a Great Software Resume: BeamJobs
12:51 - Sunny Gets Humbled at Math Camp
14:43 - How Sunny Landed Machine Learning Internships in High School
18:08 - Math Club at Rolling Meadows High School
19:34 - How Sunny's Father Changed His Life
21:30 - Why Sunny Chose to Pursue Computer Science
23:23 - How Sunny Landed a Full Ride Scholarship
30:44 - Breaking the Scholarship Contract
32:06 - Why Sunny Chose Berkeley Over Princeton
36:12 - Sunny Takes Graduate Classes as an Undergrad
39:42 - Sunny’s Advice for College Freshmen
44:09 - Which Path Should CS Students Pursue
51:54 - How Sunny Landed the $500,000 Quant Trading Offer
55:56 - How to Prepare for Quant Finance
59:30 - Where People Mess up Their Quant Interviews
1:02:16 - Will Sunny Take the $500,000 Quant Offer?
1:03:30 - Why Did Sunny Choose to Pursue a Statistics PhD?
1:08:17 - Sunny’s Research Experience & Advice
1:13:14 - Sunny’s Struggles With the Family Startup
1:16:05 - Sunny’s Advice to Tech Entrepreneurs
1:19:39 - Should You Create a Startup or Work in Industry First?
1:22:34 - Sunny's Biggest Challenge
1:25:22 - Sunny’s Advice for Young People
1:29:43 - Where Sunny Sees Himself in 10 years
1:31:16 - Outro
I'm Aman Manazir, a career coach and former software engineer. I make videos about making it as a computer science student and landing your dream job. I post new videos regularly, run a tech interview podcast, and run an email newsletter (https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter).
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Aadil Manazir is my younger brother. In this episode, we discuss how he landed a $500,000+/year job offer in quant trading at age 20, how he secured a Google software engineering internship (and turned it down) in his free time, and how he packed on 30+ lbs of muscle and much, much more.
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - 8th Grade MathCounts
05:29 - American Mathematics Competition
06:16 - High School Math Club
08:29 - Elite Math Summer Camps
12:36 - Writing a Great Software Resume: BeamJobs
13:47 - Summer Research Camp
15:28 - Why Aadil Picked the University of California Berkeley
18:25 - Transition to College Life
23:20 - Aadil’s Introduction to Software and Quant Internships
27:18 - John Deere Software Internship
31:15 - Aadil’s Sophomore Year
32:10 - Aadil’s Grind to Land a Quant Internship: 60 Interviews
38:20 - Aadil’s Reaction at Getting a $130/hour Quant Internship at IMC Trading
43:40 - Aadil’s Experience Working at IMC Trading
47:30 - How Aadil Landed a Jump Trading Internship
54:50 - Aadil’s $500k+ Quant Salary
56:20 - How Aadil Got a Google Software Internship for Fun
58:22 - How to Become a Quant
1:00:55 - How to Prepare for Software Engineering Interviews
1:04:22 - The Value of Obsession
1:07:27 - You Don’t Need to Be a Genius
1:09:20 - How Self-Improvement Changed Our Lives
1:18:40 - Aadil’s Gym Transformation Story: Adding 30 lbs of Muscle
1:22:13 - How Looksmaxxing Changed Aadil’s Life
1:29:50 - Was Bodybuilding and Looksmaxxing Worth It?
1:35:30 - What’s Next for Aadil?
