The New Career Map for Software Engineers

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 For the extended conversation, become a member to this channel or join my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/alifeengineered/p/the-career-strategy-that-survives?r=2tt9s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true 00:00 - The Advice Early Career Engineers Need to Hear 00:49 - From Amazon to Betting on Founders 05:14 - How an SVP Pushed Anish to Quit 10:07 - Why the World Is Short on Software 17:45 - The Best Way to Build Intuition 20:39 - Engineers Are Becoming Managers (Whether They Like It or Not) 27:57 - Why Enterprise Software Is Oversold 35:53 - Where to Look for Alpha in AI 39:21 - Bearish or Bullish: Rapid Fire Round 40:22 - Should You Still Study CS? 41:59 - Where AI Token Prices Are Really Headed