He rejected FAANG to work at a startup... was it worth it?

I interviewed my friend Xinchi who's a graduating mechanical engineer major at McGill University. He first rejected Apple to work at Ericsson then rejected Microsoft to co-found his own IoT startup DemeterAI.

This interview was done live from my twitch, I'm live weekly talking about tech, coding and playing games, you can follow me here: https://www.twitch.tv/fryingpanlive

Here are the timestamps!

0:00 - intro
1:53 - WHO ARE U (not awkward at all)
2:29 - why reject microsoft for a startup
3:16 - why refuse apple for ericsson
3:42 - SWE salaries in china & working there
5:13 - does xinchi regret rejecting microsoft
5:45 - working at the startup
7:12 - what does xinchi do at the startup (IoT)
7:42 - what the startup is about
10:04 - DemeterAI website & techstack
10:42 - what he had to learn on the job
12:05 - does math matter for programming?
12:44 - current salary vs microsoft
13:27 - next 2 years plan
14:18 - q&a (IDE, cybersecurity)
15:37 - conclusion - thx for 100k subs:)

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DemeterAI: https://www.demeterai.ca/
Uncut version of the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyU0tts36Uc&ab_channel=FryingPanLIVE

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