 Hey, this reaction is hilarious. This is real. That's the reaction you get I've been wanting to make a reaction video for these tech videos on tiktok where they glamorize tech Some of these videos are really good and are really helpful and I love the tech community on tiktok but some of these videos can be really deceiving and Unrealistic braggadocious I figured I'd make a video reacting to some of my favorite tech videos some of my not so favorite tech videos and then just the videos in between be sure to give this video a thumbs up and Subscribe for more tech and lifestyle content like this also comment down below your thoughts on the tech tiktok glamorizing type of videos I'm curious to know you all's feelings and also I love engaging with you on a comment section anyways All right, this is actually one of my favorite videos You walking into my first tech job when business tired This is true 26 year old manager wearing another company shirt. That's true. See you on a snuggie Okay, so This is really true. I was definitely that into wait. I wasn't the intern wearing a tank top. I wasn't doing that I definitely was wearing like a t-shirt in shorts. That was when I was working at a tech company It's so different now working for a bank I I say this joke that every job I've gotten has gotten increasingly conservative in terms of what I could wear to work But my first job was definitely like Helen Alima, I think that's her name on tiktoks video The most accurate one though is the manager with the company shirt. There's so many like 40 year old dudes in tech wearing t-shirts and shorts every day POV eighth round Eight rounds software engineer interview salary seven hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars See, here's my issue with Glamorizing tech to to this point to this magnitude I have no problem with glamorizing tech because we need to get more people in the space Especially more people of color. So I appreciate her posting these this tech content These numbers are becoming more and more unrealistic. They used to be realistic like 100k 150k 200k And I'm not saying people aren't making more than 200k, but like seven hundred thirty thousand dollars like why I just feel like these videos Do more harm than good one. How was this salary broken up? Because I watched a video that we're going to be watching soon So stay tuned where someone commented how was this broken up and then they started talking about all their side hustles And it's like so now you're just bragging about how much money you're making not the salary you're getting for your job I just feel like these videos do more harm than good because there's so many people We're just passionate about tech or just want a life-changing job and they get really frustrated because they see these type of videos where people are Having these outlandish salaries. I bet most of them are unrealistic and not even true And it just makes them more frustrated and causes more harm than good Oh my gosh it worked. So dope. Nice. How does it feel? It's literally the best feeling that feeling right there will never go away. That's true That is true that is one of the best feelings in the world is when you've been debugging this bug or working on this feature and Everything starts to come together and you see it working. Honestly, that's what keeps me coming back to programming. What is going on here? It's not working anymore Yeah, that feeling right there will also never go away. Yeah, that's that's true That's the beauty of programming. You're always problem-solving and being frustrated is never going to end That's the whole point of being a programmer is constantly putting out fires All right, this one is from my homie Jeremiah Peoples All right, what my friends think I do at work. I already know where he's going with this one Yep, they think you're hacking and that you're like in the movies like typing at a hundred and fifty words per minute Oh, yeah, oh, yeah one hand. Yeah. Oh wow Hey Way too easy. That's funny Hey, this reaction is hilarious That's the type of reaction you get when you're copying and pasting or maybe not copying and pasting But you're referencing like Stack Overflow or tutorial you put it in your code you run it and it breaks and Then reading Stack Overflow and not even knowing what they're talking about. Oh my gosh Or just copy and paste it all together and hope that it works Paste Let's go that feeling too when you copy and paste Stack Overflow into your code. It works. That's such a great feeling Day in a life of a 21 year old software engineer. See this is a type of stuff I'll be talking about 40k a month. That's roughly I think like 430 $450,000 to $450,000 a year at 21 years old You know what? I was making at 21 years old whatever the minimum wage is for work study students Free breakfast and lunch every day. So not only does he make like half a ticket half a million But he also gets free breakfast and lunch every day. But see that's cool. I like showing the free breakfast Developing a new feature for 50 million users not millions of users 50 million Enjoying the rain and rooftop view. Wow. This is so dreamy Fun day time to go home Let's score some bangers. I like that. He's active in playing soccer Finish the day by helping my followers and coding jobs I like the day I like the fact that he's being active and competitive Like I feel like you need that when you're sitting at the computer programming all day But now he's also helping his followers land coding jobs follow for help. So he's giving back I appreciate that you're showing a salary, but you're giving back This is a video where they had the comment and it was like 40k a month is a flat lie. No soft for years worth that much. That's not true There definitely was a comment in here where I'm pretty sure where he broke down how he made that much money But it wasn't the 40k a month was like investments Real estate like it was a number of things. It wasn't just his salary. That's how I'm like it's getting braggadocious You're just trying to make you're just trying to get a lot of views and clicks and you did but like at what cost? Asking soft for years how they made $200,000 after college. I was studying computer science at MIT. There we go Something realistic. I'm a 200k at 22 years old Which is an absurd amount of money to make at that age or really any age But I also Got a computer science degree at MIT. I didn't just get this job from a referral and they handed me $200,000 a year My dream to live and work in New York City kind of hate the tech modern culture NASA I got a referral through a friend But I would recommend finding one through LinkedIn find someone that works at the company You're applying for a great way to start a conversation is if you have mutual connections So I know this works because I personally referred people that have reached out to me at LinkedIn There are a lot of lead code questions every day for about a month, but yeah, oh my gosh Yes Thank you. Thank you. Thank you ray underscore foo. I think that's how you pronounce his name for this very very realistic video She did lead code problems for a month and I'm gonna be honest with you a month is actually not that long of a time That's not that long. She's really smart So to do lead code a couple questions a day Which is hours of work for a month and land a software engineering job for 200k. I mean that's that's tough That's tough time. That's even better. I also Failing other interviews. I did a lot of interviews before I interviewed at two Yes, also failing tons and tons of interviews guys. I failed so many interviews. I just don't talk about it They'll allow them whenever I failed I would write down the question and I will go back and solve it again on my own time I got an offer at two Sigma asking software engineers have that's key Try to remember the problem say I try to actually solve them If you didn't get a chance to solve them and then also try to re-solve them in a more like efficient way Like maybe you can do it in a much better time complexity love videos like this because they're realistic They aren't these Glamorizing videos where it just seems like it's so easy to get in tech and people are just gonna hand you money No, that is not how it works. Also. It's really freaking competitive. They don't just hand out $200,000 to 20 year olds All right, so that wraps up this tiktok reaction to tech tiktok videos Be sure to give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it I'll make more content like this and I'll make a series out of this if you all want me to because I Spend endless hours of my life just withering away on the tiktok algorithm I just wanted to make the point that you have to hustle and work very hard to get into tech Especially to land these jobs that are paying you well over six figures There's just too many videos glamorizing working in tech and how easy it is. But anyways that wraps up this video Thank you all for watching it. Don't forget to subscribe for more content like this and as always I'll see you all soon. Peace