How To Get a Remote Job From a Tier-3 College | #136 The Sanskar Show
Summary
TLDRThis video transcript features a discussion on self-taught programming, the importance of networking, and open-source contributions. The speaker emphasizes that getting a job in programming is more about meeting the right people than just coding skills. They share their journey from learning to code at 14, building products, and winning hackathons. The speaker also advises on how to find projects, contribute to open-source, and leverage social media for networking. They stress the value of continuous learning and applying skills over formal education.
Takeaways
- 😀 Programming job opportunities are often more about networking than just coding skills.
- 🔗 Open source contributions are an excellent way to meet people and build a professional network.
- 🎓 Learning to code can be self-taught, with resources like YouTube videos and online courses.
- 🛠️ Building products and projects is a practical way to apply and enhance coding skills.
- 🏆 Winning hackathons and creating notable projects can significantly boost a developer's profile.
- 🌐 Social media, especially platforms like Discord and Twitter, play a crucial role in remote work and networking.
- 💼 For remote job opportunities, it's important to have a strong online presence and contribute to communities.
- 🎯 Choosing a niche and attending related events or conferences can help in meeting like-minded professionals and potential employers.
- 📈 The demand for skills in areas like AI and blockchain is high, but it's important to stand out from the crowd.
- 🌟 Front-end development skills are a good starting point for anyone looking to get into blockchain or crypto.
- 🔄 The cycle of contributing to open source involves finding projects, making contributions, and potentially securing a job within that project.
Q & A
What does the interviewee suggest is more important than coding skills for getting a job in programming?
-The interviewee suggests that networking and meeting the right people is more important than just coding skills for getting a job in programming.
How did the interviewee learn to code?
-The interviewee learned to code primarily through YouTube videos and self-learning, without any formal programming training.
What is the significance of open source contributions according to the interviewee?
-Open source contributions are significant as they allow individuals to meet people and build a network, which can lead to job opportunities.
How does the interviewee recommend managing the balance between building products and studying?
-The interviewee suggests that skills can be developed over time, but networking cannot. Therefore, one should focus on building connections and contribute to projects to gain practical experience.
What niche did the interviewee choose to specialize in?
-The interviewee chose blockchain technology as their niche, specifically focusing on the Solana ecosystem.
What was the first major product the interviewee built?
-The first major product the interviewee built was 's.fund', which won the Coindesk Aon, one of the biggest hackathons in crypto.
What is the interviewee's perspective on internships?
-The interviewee sees internships as an opportunity to learn and meet supportive people, rather than just a stepping stone for a job.
What advice does the interviewee give for someone looking to get into crypto?
-The interviewee advises watching educational videos, joining Discord communities like Superteam, and learning front-end development skills as a starting point.
How does the interviewee recommend finding and contributing to open source projects?
-The interviewee recommends finding open source projects on platforms like GitHub and Discord, and then contributing by creating pull requests or engaging with the development team.
What is the interviewee's view on the importance of social media for networking?
-The interviewee views social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Discord as important tools for networking and finding job opportunities.
What is the interviewee's strategy for balancing college work and personal projects?
-The interviewee balances college work and personal projects by prioritizing important lectures and finding time during the day to work on personal projects.
Outlines
💻 Learning to Code and Networking in Programming
The speaker discusses their self-taught journey in programming, emphasizing that finding jobs is more about networking than just coding skills. They highlight the importance of open-source contributions and joining communities like Discord for meeting people in the industry. The speaker shares their learning process, which was primarily through YouTube videos, and stresses the importance of applying knowledge through projects. They also talk about balancing building products and studying, choosing a niche, and the skills required for remote work, including the role of social media in networking.
🎓 College Experience and Learning to Code
The speaker reflects on their college experience, noting a shift from disliking DSA and LeetCode to understanding their value in practicing skills. They advocate for building projects to apply knowledge and discuss their own exploration phase where they focused on fitness and socializing before seeking internships. The paragraph covers learning resources like YouTube and Udemy, and the importance of contributing to open-source projects for gaining recognition and building a network. The speaker also shares their first open-source contribution and how it helped them connect with people in the ecosystem.
🤝 The Importance of Networking and Choosing a Niche
This paragraph focuses on the importance of networking and choosing a niche for career growth. The speaker advises attending niche-specific events to meet like-minded people and potential employers. They discuss the ineffectiveness of merely connecting on LinkedIn without genuine engagement and suggest having meaningful conversations as a better approach. The speaker also touches on the challenges of finding jobs in trending fields and the value of being in demand due to specialization.
🌐 Securing Remote Jobs and the Power of Open Source
The speaker provides insights on securing remote jobs, suggesting that the skill set required remains the same, but networking strategies might differ, with social media playing a significant role. They discuss the use of platforms like GitHub for finding remote work and mention 'super team earn' for crypto-related opportunities. The paragraph concludes with advice on how to approach contributing to open source, find projects, make contributions, and potentially secure a job within that project, emphasizing the value of offering something of value to gain attention.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Open Source Contributions
💡Discord
💡Remote Work
💡Crypto
💡Programming
💡Networking
💡GitHub
💡Internships
💡Hackathons
💡Front-end Development
💡Social Media
Highlights
Programming job acquisition is more about networking than just coding skills.
Open source contributions are an excellent way to meet people in the industry.
Discord communities like Super Team are open platforms for networking and learning.
Learning to code was primarily through YouTube videos and self-study.
Building products and studying involves balancing time effectively.
Choosing a niche and attending related events can help in meeting like-minded people and potential employers.
Skills can be developed over time, but connections cannot.
Social media, especially LinkedIn, plays a significant role in remote job acquisition.
The life cycle of contributing to open source includes finding projects, making contributions, and potentially getting a job.
Building the product 's. fun' won the Coindesk Aon hackathon in 2023.
The importance of creating valuable products and giving them out for free to gain recognition.
Creating something called 'salana base app' was the first grant from Super Team.
Having a job mindset is not necessary; focusing on personal projects and growth is equally important.
DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) is important but should be applied to real-world projects.
Exploring various interests and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is crucial alongside programming.
For those interested in crypto, starting with front-end development is recommended.
GitHub and mlHax are platforms for finding remote jobs and projects.
Open source contributions can lead to significant financial rewards and career growth.
The process of contributing to open source involves finding projects, making pull requests, and networking with the development team.
Transcripts
I've completely learned to code on my
own programming and getting jobs in
programming is less about the code and
more about the People You Meet how do
you find people who can give you jobs so
open source contributions is best way to
meet people and discords like super team
so open
source I put it out anyone can use it
for free for their learning so how did
you go about learning to Cod it was
mostly YouTube videos if you are always
learning like there then there's no
point learning right until you're able
to apply that so bro how do you manage
building products and studying skills
skills you can develop over time but
Lobos of connect you can't develop over
time so what kind of events should they
go to so choose a niche if someone wants
to get a reward job if they want to work
remotely how can that be made possible
what skills are required what networking
is required to get to that level the
skill set Remains the Same everything
Remains the Same the network might
change a little and I think social media
plays much more of a role there so tell
me the life cycle of that person
contributing to open source how will
they find the project how will they make
contributions and then ultimately how
can they ask for a job in that
particular
project
okay so from writing your first line of
code to today how is that that Journey
been like what's that learning curve
been like and through the way have you
done any internships any jobs any
products you have built if you can just
share them in adust I've completely
learned to code on my own I've never
like any formal programming training so
that's completely like uh figure out a
roam around find out so that's been
there uh coming to products and projects
I've like built MP products and various
projects so one major product I buil was
s. fun so it was last year around 2023
we won the coindesk Aon so that was a
huge price one of the biggest hackathons
in crypto that was a major Thing One
initial fun product I buil was in Python
like everyone was making Javis around
the time you know like Iron Man
replicating Javis in Python with pi
audio and everything so I did that that
was a really fun product I learned a lot
with that yeah I've done bunch of
internships I'm doing one right now with
flash trade it's a Perpetual trading
Exchange in Dubai so yeah learning
experience has really good people I've
met along the way have been really
supportive and yeah mostly I think
programming and getting jobs in
programming is less about the code and
more about the People You Meet
interesting point you mentioned ke
getting a job or an internship is more
about the people you know right so being
14 in India how do you find people who
can give you jobs so when you're 14 just
go around dram around explore things you
like go on the internet I wish I had
internet before yeah go around and find
out so YouTube is there so you will meet
people along the way as you put in the
hard work so I met a bunch of people not
because I had some really cool Twitter
profile but because I did some work for
them or helped them along the way so
open source contributions is best way to
meet people and discords like super team
so when you say open source you
guide what was your first interaction
with open source and then how did you
make your cont contributions so open
source I put it out anyone can use it
for free for their learning and now when
bunch of people are using it for free
and it is something actually valuable
people come back to they'll get credit
to you it's doesn't really have to make
money when you're 14 you don't really
care about money that much so yeah just
create something that's valuable give it
out for free don't give out the whole
thing of
course and let other people contribute
to it you contribute to other people's
code and you'll just collectively make
something that's really good for the
world you know so personally I made
something called salana base app so that
was my first Grant from super team so
yeah salana was really new at that time
everyone was looking for developer tools
this was something like a basic or base
application that's required when you
create a salana application it was built
in react yeah and that got me really
popular and connected to people in the
ecosystem so take me through the jour
journey of your high school and then
coming to college like what did you have
in mind what were your goals do did you
look for a Fang job when you got out of
college so what was your mindset like
coming into college I was like I never
really had a job mindset what I want to
do is hey I want some free time to do my
own thing I don't want a initially Fang
job or something cuz I don't like being
constrained I like moving at my own
speed doing my own things and my own
speed initially fast companies go really
slow so that's something I didn't really
like and most people were into DSA and
Lead code and everything initially I
hated that but over the time as I was
there and the hosts and people are doing
this I understood their point of view
that yeah this is cool but this is only
like practicing sword fighting and not
going to war at any time so go to the
war build projects and build products so
that's only the way you can apply your D
skills and everything my coming to back
to my mindset it was like yeah I don't
want to do anything for 3 months I
didn't do any I didn't write any code
for 3 months I just explored talk to a
bunch of people uh make bunch of friends
explore Sports and yeah get into fitness
that was my major goals and then after
those three months were over yeah I
started looking for internships I
started looking for product ideas again
so how did you go about learning to core
yes you started at 14 right yeah you
learned on your own so I'm assuming you
watched YouTube videos tutorials what
did you do it was mostly YouTube videos
and so my father had U UD me access and
yeah mostly used UD me that was there
but I never i' I had a bunch of UD
coures I've never finished one like I've
had I left courses at 20% 50% as I got
the initial value so yeah look at
YouTube videos now the start gbd I wish
that was there sooner so once you have
like initial logic building skills that
you get from programming just go to tjb
solve a bunch of questions and I think
that's why lead code could be really
good or like solve a bunch of questions
get a bunch of examples from chart gbd
and you should be good to go with the
language syntax next is your own logic
building and emergence skills so yeah
let's say someone in college right now
wants to get started with crypto yeah
they want to get into this space so what
should be their first step go around
watch a bunch of YouTube videos don't
watch Traders videos YouTube is filled
with that stuff trading videos will
destroy you will end up losing money
there are lots of good articles best
place is to like just go to the super
team Discord public is there what is
super teams super team is basically a
bunch of skilled people coming together
to solve world's problems using crypto
specifically salana it's just an
Community where you come they'll support
you really skilled people and yeah you
can create your own thing getting into
crypto go to the supernum Discord
introduce yourself or WR your motor and
there's a bunch of learning resources
there uh I think best way is okay
watching there's a channel called
whiteboard crypto so it's really good
for Theory I even I used it back in my
day so whiteboard crypto is really good
uh yeah after you have B done bunch of
videos I think it's good that you have
some front end development skills you'll
be able to create some basic products
that's how I started off I I react
nextjs so that's the good to know
typescript but JavaScript works well
yeah and there's a bunch of Open Source
libraries so you'll be able to use bunch
of them not specifically on salana even
ethereum and any other
chain I think front end development is
the first skill you would need then you
can go with your language of choice Russ
solidity or simple node back ends that's
up to you so let's go step by step you
mentioned that front end knowledge
should be your first step right so
now and what level of efficiency should
one be at to move to the next step if
you are always learning like this then
there's no point of learning right until
you're able to apply that so best way is
learn react learn react hooks States and
everything all the react Basics do that
no need to complete the course just good
enough that you're able to create a
website that's able to do whatever you
like does not have to be crypto or
anything so yeah it's as simple as a gym
work website get out right as a template
project
and then yeah move forward GitHub has a
lot of Open Source crypto libraries and
you'll have a lot of support
documentation and tutorials now in
YouTube so use them and create a simple
front end project as simple as hey I can
use this nexj template simple create
next app and I can connect my wallet and
I can send a transaction like I can send
a transaction to you so bro how do you
manage building products and studying
umle
especially in colleges so I work on
lectures sometimes so we have this
lectures practical balance
stuff so workr lectures as a student you
should be really sure of what you want
to do of course you have to figure out
over
time so sometimes I work around lectures
if it's important if not I able to find
some time during the day like lectures
so that's how like I balance my time SKS
skills you can develop over time but
Lobos a connect you can't develop over
time like either you have to be good you
you have to be involved so programmers
orch students like a general image
so so people maintain LinkedIn that's
good good go to that but until unless
you go to events you talk to people it
won't be happening H so what kind of
events should they go to so choose a
niche I choose my nishe as blockchain
you can choose a niche as machine
learning AI or cyber security anything
you like there's bunch of conferences
happening go to the events you'll meet
likeminded people you meet like-minded
employers and if let's say a student in
their first year meets an employer so
what should they do on meeting upon with
them um don't talk about employment
first
thing then why would I offer anyone just
connect with them you know have some
distinction like rich people going to go
is actually a cringe thing but it's
actually works business deal happens
over a golf right so just talk with them
talk about the latest thing in your
niche suppose there's a new chain talk
about the new chain if you're going to a
blockchain confence or like talk about
the existing things that can happen
display a knowledge but don't make it
obvious P Bro you mentioned be at a
place where there is demand yeah if you
want jobs right so in your opinion with
your experience 2024 25
26and if they want the
job so recently this specialization
thing secondary in a college bunch of
people took a they don't even know
python Basics right there's over Supply
every job Ro recently has AI in them
right it's good and there are some
really good AI job roles and there are
some really good AI people right and
they will get jobs if you're top 1% top
10% of your field there's no problem
finding jobs but if you're part of that
bunch of sheeps that just took AI or
took any field because it was popular
like people who do crypto back in the
day right if because it was popular
okay few of them worked out few of them
worked hard and got forward but most of
them did not they just dumb shs and now
they're in AI right
so there will be
demand we are living in capitalism yeah
how can students use social media may be
specifically uh Discord Twitter and
Linkedin so LinkedIn everyone uses start
quite cringe nowadays everyone makes F
of it but still everyone has to use it I
don't use LinkedIn as much so yeah
LinkedIn is good if you are actually
connecting with people LinkedIn invite B
is not connection so don't connect but
if you're able to set up a meet like a
15 minutes meet with anyone perfect if
you're able to find your niche of people
on Lon and if you're able to find your
Niche on Twitter perfect interact with
them comment with them cold dming always
works Discord okay you join communities
people asking questions all the time
it's good to reply to them if you know
them or like good to follow up but you
have to be active you have to show up
every day so most people don't do that
most people just dis install Discord
they'll join a few communities and yeah
no one is ghosting after week if someone
wants to get a reward job if they want
to work remotely how can that be made
possible what skills are required what
networking is required to get to that
level
it's equally of the same
value but it's working the same way so
the skill set Remains the Same
everything Remains the Same the
networking might change a little and I
think social media plays much more of a
role there yeah and it's much better to
connect with people like just get them
on a 10 minute 15 minute Google meet as
simple as that discuss something with
them what happens is let's talk about
someone second year from a tier three
College in India right they want to
connect with some CEO in the US and you
mentioned connect up with them on a
10minute call okay so what steps can
they do to make that
happen Okay so demand Supply
H un go he will be respected he will
have a lot of attention why would you
reply to your message do you have some
value suppose their company is coming
with something new right a new prototype
right suppose it's Silicon Valley and
they make nucleus right and you can add
something to that nucleus compression
algorithm right they might reply they
might forward it to their team or it's
not the best idea to reach out to the
COO directly reach out to someone on the
specific team right
and then move forward so yeah until
unless you have some value for the
person in front of you there's no point
of playing or to any cold CM bro are
there some platforms as well
specifically people can get remote jobs
I I don't know about other platforms I
think best place GitHub but gck works
but don't read G like it's a DSA
platform like it's not repe yeah so G is
good it's hard to crank but it's good so
in crypto the something called super
team earn it's a super team product you
can get bounties there and job
applications are open there so you can
apply for bounties you'll get paid for
it if you get in the top three prices
it's not limited to development jobs
it's Li it has content video marketing
everything so you'll be able to find
something there if you in crypto rest I
think GitHub gck and ml Hax has their
own platforms right yeah bro what I feel
is open source is a very important
aspect of growth in a developers career
open
source like at the age of 16
18 I have talked to various students Jo
College doing remote jobs making huge
amounts of money Joi graduates don't
make
annually
so is open source
contributions so let's talk about
that second year third year student they
have basic knowledge of a Tex tag let's
say m take now they want to contribute
to open source so tell me the life cycle
of that person contributing to open
source how will they find the project
how will they make contributions and
then ultimately how can they ask for a
job in that particular project so
suppose you know M and you know a little
bit of blockchain development right you
don't specifically have to do anything
you know how to connect those types
script libraries as basically start
right now what you can do is hey this
project has something open source
encryp away promote software so that's
there so you can just go to discords and
you can find all the repositories that's
there all the that'ss are open to
contribution right so you will be able
to find something and then you can pull
up a pull request so I think that's the
basic let's go to the more people side
of things so you'll be able to connect
with the moderators you'll be able to
connect with the development team on
discords if it's a smaller project much
better get an early get some equity and
you'll be able to do better right right
so even if you avoid the equity part of
things so just connect with the
development team talk to them hey I want
to contribute something I'm not looking
for much of a combination and yeah let
me know if you have something they will
reply value they will reply to you
awesome man awesome awesome thank you so
much for coming to the studio sharing
your insights and experience I loved it
and I hope the audience learned
something from it thank you so much
thank you thanks for doing this awesome
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