How to Get Ahead of 99% of Software Engineers (in 2025)

Ever wondered how you can become a Top 1% Software Engineer? In this video, I reveal how you can become better than 99% of your competition.

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00:00 Learn to Become a Top 1% Software Engineer
00:06 Why Listen to Me?
00:29 To-Do #6
02:59 To-Do #5
04:04 Win in the Age of AI
05:32 To-Do #4
07:50 To-Do #3
09:42 To-Do #2
11:13 To-Do #1
13:24 7 Years of Software Engineering Advice in 10 Minutes

[shivamjoshi]

Hope this will help you out!
1- Steal the 10000 hr experience from Others
2- Use AI efficiently
3- Have a coustomer centric mindset
4- Be a good communicator (How - practice and taking leadership.)
5- Be a mentor
6- Build personal brand

[polyglotengineer]

Excuse me, did you just say you help 600, 000 people break into tech every day?

[Initialthought]

Another thing I love about this guy is his English

[SajjaadKhader]

Who’s ready to be a top 1% software engineer 🗣️🗣️

[sulayamar]

I find it really impressive that you didn’t add music to the video because of your Deen. Respect brother, Mashallah

[Ahmed-husm]

I am a beginner in CS. You have changed my perspective of computer science.../(Thank you and may God bless you 🙏)\

[controlyourselfok]

you know what i'm gonna do actually get ahead of the 1%? i'm actually going to build shit.

[EugenBatmanoff]

Hey Sajjaad, You're really sharing good content! it's right on time and pretty solid. Thank you!

[noozytechz]

"You're not going to lose your job. You'll lose your job to someone uses AI."

The fun fact is, the one gonna use the AI is your employer.

[ZENBEATS]

This video was gold! The final tip is a gem for sure! Love it!

[tvicky-developer]

Love you my guy, you cleared my mind, just what I wanted, thanks. Following you from now

[anotherone]

Here's how to actually become a better software engineer:
- Learn your tools, not just using them but how do they work BTS.
- Learn to test and write clean code.
- Leetcode, it'll make you a better problem solver, and think abstract.
- Explore open source code to learn patterns, bedt practices.
- RTFM.
- Learn concepts by building projects.

[ahmedsaboor]

Ma sha Allah, brother Sajjad. I love your videos as they are very inspiring and enlightening. Please keep up the good work.

[mxr_codes]

I visited GT last summer, it's a great school. Met lots of good people.

[roland_maverick]

This part activited my Google assistant 1:30

[mat-on-go]

My Guy you’re Great so informative I enjoyed this ❤

[justinsokol]

Do the things no one else wants to do. You become invaluable to your employer.

[mazsaeed]

Well done young man! Keep inspiring others!

[notfakeduh]

Hey, I’m loving your videos! I’m starting learning software engineering and your videos have helping me a lot! Thanks 🙏🏻 🇧🇷

[vijaybabu]

You're awesome man. You got a new subscriber by seeing 1 minute of this video. Well, this reminds me the value of first impression. Thank you Brother for teaching how to steal others hours.