The Best Tech Career Advice For 2025 (From 15 Tech YouTubers)

26:25 Closing

[nehemiahstewart]

Don't stick around with a bad manager. You will be stagnant and your market will pass you by as you age.

[masgustavos]

I think Rahul's advice is extremely important. MASTER YOUR STORIES. It doesn't matter how good you are if people can't perceive it. If you are doing wonderful technical things you're losing SO MUCH if you can't express it in a understandable way for your peers and leaders.

[jaredsmith]

This is pretty much all great advice. My advice: don't try to take all of this great advice all at once. Pick one thing (ideally the thing you suck at/hate doing the most) to focus on first.

[MLEpath]

Great work, Steve! As always, you’re an inspiration!

I noticed MLEs aren’t specifically represented, so if I may add a bit of wisdom that applies to SWEs but is essential for ML Engineers:

Make time to learn—no one will hand it to you. Learning isn’t a one-time task; it’s an ongoing process that requires setting aside time regularly to stay on top of all the advancements.

Bonus tip: whenever you learn something new, schedule a “deep dive” session with your colleagues to explain it to them. Not only will you understand the subject more deeply, but you’ll also position yourself as a leader in the space.

[PeterYangYT]

Thanks Steve for the opportunity - you've been incredibly generous in giving me advice as well. Cheers to you and everyone here!

[brianguzman]

My 2024 advice: find a way to deal with difficult people, situations and projects. Don’t shy away from the challenges.

I’m currently learning how to do this. I’ve learned you can be technically correct or even make valid arguments, but without developed trust or learning how to work with those who disagree or even dislike you, your ceiling will keep you from moving forward.

It takes a large amount of patience and humility but it’s worth it and I wish I had started this earlier.

Shoutout to Steve for taking lessons and wisdom across many years and making it available for younger engineers. We don’t have to learn from our own mistakes.

[mihirgupta]

Being able to tell your story is so important. I’m working on my technical report at work and my mentor is emphasizing the fact that it needs to be written in a way that people care. If the “why” isn’t clear, then it’s hard for anyone to care

[Idinkthereforeiam]

The collaborative spirit here is a great example of the soft skills that set the best SWEs apart from the rest.

Love to see it, thanks for putting this together!

[HWrd-j]

On Jeff's advice: If the mentor's personal life (financial, family...) were closer to the mentee's, the action items would be more applicable.

[cloudwithraj]

Ty Steve for this opportunity, feels cool and humbling to be included with legends 🙌

[suriMusiq]

All of my fav tech youtubers in one video, love this <3

[grandpowr]

Rahul advice about storytelling is quite interesting, I have been promoted to lead in my last jobs but this year I have struggled to even land interview nows, I tweaked my resume to highlight why they put me as a lead (initiative and proactive in presenting solutions), pretty useful set of advices

[JoseGarcia-vrmx]

This is great, thank you for putting this video together. This is gold.

[sammyiboi]

Based on the expressions in the thumbnail, I thought everyone was going to offer sobering, harsh reality checks. But nope 😁Thanks for collabing with all these creators!

[Neonb]

Zach's advice (13:30) to do what it takes to build trust and also to find a manager that trusts you is so so crucial

Be trustworthy for its own sake, and stick to your side of the street, solving problems proactively and independently

Very similar solution(s) to the next advice at 15:10

[BeBopOnDaGo]

I am so cool.
Thanks for sharing this!

[xcuu]

Would have been fun to have Tech Lead as one of the guests, can’t even imagine how that would have played out.

[BobKane-gx]

Here's my career advice.. become a Youtuber.