Rise of bhaya didis selling courses

Indian SDEs on LinkedIn & Twitter are some of the worst engineers you will ever find across the real world. Their typical value lies around: - Cracking a FAANG/MAANG or Product company. - Make an announcement on LinkedIn & Twitter and accumulating followers. - Starting YouTube channel, Topmate links, affiliate marketing channels, and more. - Rant DSA, System Design, Interview resources all day long. - Post daily of their office, their colleagues, candid shots, and barely getting any work done. While this is expected out of early career professionals, it pains to see senior SDEs doing the same shit over and over again. Things don't end here — Everyone talks about creating a revolution. And the revolution is teaching DSA. If you are an experienced SDE and still ranting DSA, it just means that you have barely learnt anything that is of worth any value. You are atmost a "Ticket Engineer". You get assigned a Jira ticket, you bust your ass solving it, and that's it. That's your entire value. Its high time that these "Bhaiya", "Didis", "Bhabhis" stop ranting DSA and System Design over and over, and build something of real value. You would barely see any credible open-source projects coming out of India (but hey, we have some many contributors!), barely any Indie dev project, or anything that captures the attention of the world. Literally every popular SDE you might follow or see over your social media is the same. Their entire community game is a farce and designed to capture gullible college students and shill thousands of rupees out of them. You might be featured on Times Square ($40 ka showoff), but no one would remember you for anything that you built. <Rant Over. Peace>

The number of influencers trying to sell their courses on coding and systems design has just went nuts. Anyone and everyone who is working in FAANG / MAANG/ WTFAANG seems to be selling dreams to everyone that this is how you get into and sustain into large scale companies. Once these engineers join after clearing interviews (which are more or less a repeat of the same questions being asked for a thousand times), they find it hard to scale themselves to solve the real world challenges that are thrown at them. And then the complaining starts from all the angles. For the sake of it, FAANG and all other such top tier companies are not gonna help you once your mental peace if completely f…ed up. If you think you are genuinely interested in solving issues at scale, spend some real time learning the basics, how the day to day software you use works, spend some time actually researching and banging your head trying to grasp how things are, because most of the challenging issues you are gonna face in your upcoming career won’t have youtube videos available to explain you why they happen. Stop filling the pockets of influencers to teach you things which you should be putting efforts to learn by exploring yourself. Rant over

My nephew tells me about all these FAANG bhaiyya and didi thing and it makes me really wonder whether it is a good thing for the tech culture in India. Like providing content is fine but with every second kid launching a DSA boot camp or Product Topmate link is probably shilling to gullible students. Any idea?

I have seen a lot of these so called competitors programmers saying we are an entrepreneur and have started a company which only sells courses for DSA and they earn too big from it. Are students now a days so blind that even pay money for these just to get a job. I know job market is bad for freshers but still dont you think it is too bad.

I might get some flack for calling this out on this platform but I see a lot of young professionals monetizing their credentials through TopMate and other sites, for advice. This might be considered a new age thing, but it's a zero sum approach. I understand that it's an essential part of one's brand building exercise but a sign of a good brand is also being altruistic. Some people might say that you put a price to the time that you may give and also filter from the mass of requests that come through. These maybe valid points but being able to judge every request on merit and being able to provide value is where you are paying it forward. Pun intended A good advice that impacts somebody's life/career without a transactional value will probably give you far more satisfaction than some random Rs. 1500 that is credited to your account. Let the trolling begin....

No points for guessing his name

Recently i was talking to my senior just for fun and wanted to see what exactly is this whole thing So he paid xxx Rupees to the person for a Call 1:1 and he asked if I'm having 2.5yrs exp I need to switch to faang This guy '22 Passout says I will give you a roadmap for 6 months you need to pay 23,xxx Rupees I will give you a referral in my faang (He is in one of them) I have the roadmap I will make sure you learn LLD My senior has 2.5 exp in a startup that was listening to him and eventually said I'll think about it and ended the call Someone who has just entered is giving advice like they have worked for 5-6 years I've seen students in college start topmate and they are in top1% stuff Do these things are really required And Ego of those is such high They are not realising achieving faang is part of life not the whole life

This post is not to hate on free YouTubers who are providing important information and clarity on coding and required skills which our Indian colleges lack but required by industry. But seeing everyone jumping into making courses makes me think how many of these courses are actually good, folks with just 1- 2 years experience teaching MERN, DSA promising high packages to all. We have replaced college professors with engineering freshers who have limited scoped knowledge, right now course selling looks like a way to make a quick buck and quit your job. I understand as a fresher, job is the most important thing and to get a job in this country the easiest and quickest way is coding. Mostly it is the curriculum to blame as it has failed our students and industry. But feels people are finding opportunity in this crisis. What are your thoughts ?

Why engineers can’t be engineers? Such hard selling of courses is really becoming painful on LinkedIn nowadays. Instead of spending time on tech content, these sellers build random stories. Please save yourself from such sellers.