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A Life Engineered

Steve Huynh
A Life Engineered
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  • A Life Engineered

    Ex-Amazon VP on What Actually Gets You Promoted | Ethan Evans

    03/08/2026 | 1h 13 mins.
    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale
    📘 AI can write your code. It can't tell your story. Behavioral interviews are the new differentiator, and I wrote the book on them: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-yt
    🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! ➡️ http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=Ethan_Evans_2-sponsored
    For the extended conversation, become a member to this channel or join my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/alifeengineered/p/ex-amazon-vp-on-what-actually-gets?r=2tt9s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

    💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers.  The advice section is *chef's kiss* -  https://discord.com/invite/HFVMbQgRJJ
    📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter -  https://alifeengineered.substack.com/
    Ethan Evans spent his career climbing to VP at Amazon, helping build Prime Video and Twitch and leading teams of over 800 people. He retired with enough money to stop caring what he's "supposed" to say, which is why he's blunt about the stuff most executives dodge: everyone lies at work sometimes, and if you refuse to play politics, you lose by default.

    Steve gets Ethan to break down how to spot manipulation before it costs you, how to tell if your manager (or their whole chain) is toxic, and how to stop taking orders and start managing up so your boss can't afford to lose you. They close on the exact math and wording for asking for a raise — and why most people never even ask.
  • A Life Engineered

    I Coached a Security Engineer Through His Failed Meta Interview (Live)

    20/07/2026 | 49 mins.
    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale
    📘 AI can write your code. It can't tell your story. Behavioral interviews are the new differentiator, and I wrote the book on them: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-yt
    If you want to be in the hot-seat for the next video like this, apply here: https://forms.gle/121P4FhVhxkBaPiq5
    🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! ➡️ http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=muhan-sponsored
    For the extended conversation, become a member to this channel or join my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/alifeengineered/p/i-coached-a-security-engineer-through?r=2tt9s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

    💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers.  The advice section is *chef's kiss* -  https://discord.com/invite/HFVMbQgRJJ
    📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter -  https://alifeengineered.substack.com/

    Muhan is an application security engineer who aced the technical round at Meta but walked out of the behavioral interview not knowing what went wrong. He had stories. He just didn't know which ones to tell or how to tell them. Steve Huynh coaches him live on how to lead with outcomes instead of methods, find stories with stakes that match the level he's targeting, and and bring the same energy to the interview that he already brings to the work itself.
  • A Life Engineered

    I Coached an AWS Engineer From Mid-Level to Senior (Live)

    06/07/2026 | 48 mins.
    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale
    📘 My book Technical Behavioral Interview hit #1 on Amazon. If you're interviewing soon, this is the playbook: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-yt
    If you want to be in the hot-seat for the next video like this, apply here: https://forms.gle/121P4FhVhxkBaPiq5
    🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! ➡️ http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=aaron-sponsored
    For the extended conversation, become a member to this channel or join my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/alifeengineered/p/fixing-an-aws-engineers-behavioral?r=2tt9s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
    💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers.  The advice section is *chef's kiss* -  https://discord.com/invite/HFVMbQgRJJ
    📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter -  https://alifeengineered.substack.com/

    Aaron has six years at Amazon — Alexa, AWS Bedrock, agent evaluation — and a resume that should be getting him senior offers. It’s not. If you've ever walked out of an interview knowing you had the experience but unsure if you showed it, this one's for you. Steve Huynh coaches him live through exactly what's holding him back.
  • A Life Engineered

    I Coached a Ex-Microsoft Manager for His Netflix Interview

    22/06/2026 | 37 mins.
    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale
    📘 I wrote the book on technical behavioral interviews, nearly 1,000 interviews worth of lessons in one guide. Grab it here: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-yt
    If you want to be in the hot-seat for the next video like this, apply here: https://forms.gle/121P4FhVhxkBaPiq5
    🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! ➡️ http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=john-sponsored
    For the extended conversation, become a member to this channel or join my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/alifeengineered/p/i-coached-a-ex-microsoft-manager?r=2tt9s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
    💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers.  The advice section is *chef's kiss* -  https://discord.com/invite/HFVMbQgRJJ
    📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter -  https://alifeengineered.substack.com/
    After 19 years at Microsoft, John expected his track record to speak for itself. It didn't. A year into his search for an engineering manager role at Netflix, the interviews keep ending the same way. Steve Huynh has seen this before — the experience is all there, but the stories aren't showing it. He coaches John live on exactly what's getting in the way.
  • A Life Engineered

    I Coached a Front-End Engineer to Sound Senior (Live)

    08/06/2026 | 1h
    Get 6 months free of Linear Business (3 seats) to celebrate our partnership 👉🏻 Redeem at: https://linear.app/ale
    📘 Everything I know about behavioral interviews from conducting nearly 1,000 of them as a Bar Raiser, now in one book: https://geni.us/BehavioralInterview-yt
    If you want to be in the hot-seat for the next video like this, apply here: https://forms.gle/121P4FhVhxkBaPiq5
    🚀 Work directly with Steve to get a high performance review and your next tech promotion in a year, guaranteed! ➡️ http://go.alifeengineered.com/?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=lf&utm_campaign=s2p-nr&utm_content=kenan-sponsored
    For the extended conversation, become a member to this channel or join my Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/alifeengineered/p/i-coached-a-front-end-engineer-to?r=2tt9s7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
    💥 Continue the conversation on my Discord server with like-minded viewers.  The advice section is *chef's kiss* -  https://discord.com/invite/HFVMbQgRJJ
    📈Transform your tech career with my free weekly newsletter -  https://alifeengineered.substack.com/

    Kenan is a senior frontend engineer with six years of experience trying to land his next senior role, and he has the stories to get there. A broken questionnaire costing real money, a production bug impossible to reproduce locally, and an end-to-end testing rollout the team fought back on.
    What he's missing has nothing to do with experience — and everything to do with how he tells it. Three changes. One session. Watch it happen in real time. Steve Huynh coaches him live through every story.
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