SWE Accelerator Podcast

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! 💌 Free weekly productivity insights/advice - https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter 📕 Get all my free Notion templates discussed here - https://www.amanmanazir.com/notion 📄 Get my free resume template - https://www.amanmanazir.com/resume 📝 Sign up for Notion - https://affiliate.notion.so/2nh3pjr6l5l6 📷 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amanmanazir/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/amanmanazir 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: bhstr.com karen@bellohomesstr.com 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).

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!If you're a dedicated programmer who wants to land your dream internship or job in 2024 without spamming LeetCode, spending hours at career fairs, or building a personal website, join the Software Engineering Accelerator and work directly with me. Click this link to book a call: https://www.amanmanazir.com/coaching 💌 Free weekly productivity insights/advice - https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter 📕 Get all my free Notion templates discussed here - https://www.amanmanazir.com/notion 📄 Get my free resume template - https://www.amanmanazir.com/resume 📝 Sign up for Notion - https://affiliate.notion.so/2nh3pjr6l5l6 📷 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amanmanazir/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/amanmanazir 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).

Access the BeamJobs FREE AI resume checker here - https://www.beamjobs.com/resume-checker?via=aman 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).

Sponsored by BeamJobs — visit https://www.beamjobs.com/resume-checker?via=aman to access the free AI resume checker and take your resume to the next level. Sign up to my email newsletter: https://www.amanmanazir.com/newsletter 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?