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SWE Accelerator Podcast

Aman Manazir
Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Career Growth
Leetcode
Networking
Meta
Caltech
Interview Preparation
AI Tools
Google
Linkedin
Quant Trading
Internships
Youtube
Amazon
Quant Research
Management Consulting
Self-Coaching
Job Market
Computer Science Education

Aman Manazir is a software engineer who's worked at companies like Amazon and Shopify. In the Software Engineering Accelerator Podcast, he interviews successful engineers to break down strategies and tools they used to land their dream jobs. In addition, Aman focuses on helping listeners improve their lives through topics in entrepreneurship, self-improvement, and technology.

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He sent 500 applications junior year and heard back from almost nobody. No internship. Just rejection while his friends posted Meta and Amazon offers on LinkedIn.

One year later: DoorDash, Apple, final rounds at Nvidia. $200K+ as a new grad. No big ... more

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Sourish walked away from a $250K TikTok ML job with no plan, self-studied AI, and landed at one of Silicon Valley's hottest AI labs. 

Now he interviews candidates himself and he's exposing exactly what it takes to get in.

Computer science students, ... more

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NeetCode just invested in the company trying to kill LeetCode. 

Aman sits down with Rounds founder Fardeen Khimani to break down why tech hiring is broken, which companies are ditching LeetCode, what's replacing it, and what every engineer needs to d... more

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She made $1.2M at Google, then quit with 4 offers in the worst market ever.

Ex-Google Senior Engineer Maddy Zhang breaks down how she escaped golden handcuffs, landed offers at OpenAI, Meta and Databricks, and what every engineer needs to know about... more

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Recent Guests

Pranav Lende
Software engineer who secured multiple offers and final rounds at top tech companies
DoorDash, Apple, Nvidia (final rounds); Georgia Tech/YC Startup School background
Episode: DoorDash Engineer: How I Went From 500+ Rejections to a $200K Offer
Fardeen Khimani
Co-founder, and leader at Round's (rounds.so)
Rounds
Episode: AI Interview Founder: Big Tech’s New Coding Interview Explained!
Maddy Zhang
Former Google engineer and guest on the episode
Independent software engineer / ex-Google
Episode: How This Ex-Google Engineer Made $1.2M & Quit in the Worst Market Ever
Alberta Tech
Google software engineer and top tech comedian known for sketches about the realities of working in tech
Google
Episode: #1 Tech Comedian Reacts To The Most Viral Engineering News
Ben Chen
Tesla AI recruiter, early Optimus team member
Tesla
Episode: Tesla AI Recruiter Exposes Why Most Engineers Will Fail the AI Pivot
Ritesh Verma
Founder of X company; early coder and AI agent advocate
Independent entrepreneur
Episode: AI Agents Expert: How Every Software Engineer Can Make $20k/Month Passively!
Morgan Young
Software engineer who has spoken at Harvard and worked with multiple tech companies
Independent/Former student at University of Nevada, Reno
Episode: #15: Networking Expert: "F*ck College, Do Internships Instead!"
Amy Wang
Caltech graduate, successful YouTuber, and influencer focused on academic achievement and personal development.
YouTube
Episode: #8: How She Got a 4.0 at the World’s Most Competitive University (ft. Amy Wang)

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Aman Manazir
Host of the SWE Accelerator Podcast

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars from 31 ratings
  • One of the episodes is with known traitor Akash Bobba

    Akash Bobba is one of Elon’s cronies, currently engaging in treasonous activities as we speak. Delete the episode.

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    Austin Toombs
    United Statesa year ago

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#239
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#143
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Apple Podcasts
#196
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The Quant Historian: Quant Is Dying! This Is What’s Next
Q: Tell me about a time you lost a horrifying amount of money and what happened.
The team had an edge-case in a model that caused us to internally quote FX risks, and a plan to trade internally to hedge proved faulty; within 50 milliseconds we lost about half a million dollars, then a separate bug cost another 50k as we struggled to hedge the risk.
AI Agents Expert: How Every Software Engineer Can Make $20k/Month Passively!
Q: What is the modern definition of an AI agent and how does it differ from a bot?
An AI agent is a tool that automates a task with a deep understanding, often implying some AI processing; a bot is a broader term and may not involve AI in its core processing, though in practice the distinction is blurred and many people now call AI-enabled workflows 'agents' while still using 'bot' for simpler automation.
Meta Software Engineer: “Didn't Study CS, Still Made $500k/Year!”
Q: What was the starting salary at Meta for an intern, and how did that transition to full-time?
As an intern, Ray earned about 8,000 dollars a month with additional benefits; full-time compensation later hinged on stock-based pay and annual promotions, with total compensation reaching around 200k initially and growing substantially over time.
Meta Software Engineer: “Didn't Study CS, Still Made $500k/Year!”
Q: What changed between the Microsoft rejection and later offers from Google, Meta, and others?
Ray explains that persisting with referrals, learning interviewing processes, practicing mock interviews, and improving the ability to articulate problem-solving steps led to better outcomes, turning early rejections into later success.
Tesla AI Recruiter Exposes Why Most Engineers Will Fail the AI Pivot
Q: What are practical steps to pivot into AI from non-AI backgrounds?
Focus on fundamental primitives, understand computer architecture, signal genuine research contributions, and develop hands-on experience with distributed systems, inference pipelines, and hardware awareness to prove you can contribute in AI roles.

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2. Fardeen Khimani
3. Maddy Zhang
4. Alberta Tech
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6. Ritesh Verma
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8. Amy Wang

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