New-grad software job video

A YouTube video posted April 13 follows Nicholas Tao, a 2025 University of Waterloo computer science graduate, through the first month of his full-time software engineering job in New York. (youtube.com) (nicholastao.com) Tao says he moved to New York about eight months before publishing the video and frames the vlog around three beats: work, moving to the city, and what he calls a “new grad identity crisis.” The 8-minute video was live with 6 views in the search snapshot and came from a channel with about 165,000 subscribers. (youtube.com 1) (youtube.com 2) The video does not name his employer, but Tao’s public site says he is a software engineer in New York City, and his GitHub profile says he is based there after graduating in 2025. His channel description says he has documented internships, recruiting and early-career tech life since 2020. (nicholastao.com) (github.com) (youtube.com) What the video shows is less a product demo than a first-job routine: onboarding, team cadence and the uncertainty of being new. Tao’s own description says the first month brought “lots of ups and downs,” even as he says he loves living in New York. (youtube.com) That matches how engineering managers usually describe the first 90 days for new hires. Recent onboarding guides frame the opening stretch as a sequence of access setup, learning team workflows, meeting a manager regularly and moving from small tasks toward independent work by about month three. (em-tools.io) (cortex.io) The same guides treat team rhythm as a core part of onboarding, not a side issue. They list introductions to communication norms, coding standards, review processes and check-ins with mentors or “buddies” alongside the technical setup of laptops, repositories and internal tools. (cortex.io) (port.io) Tao’s video also lands in a weak market for entry-level software jobs, which helps explain why a “first month” vlog carries weight for viewers still trying to break in. Public job trackers for the 2025 and 2026 graduating classes show thousands of commits and updates as students crowdsource openings across software engineering, product management and quantitative roles. (github.com) Tao has been documenting that squeeze for more than a year. In a February 21, 2025 video titled “I finally got a software engineering job (new grad 2025),” he said he landed an offer after months of applying and interviewing during what he called the toughest recruiting season he had faced. (youtube.com) He had already tied his career story to New York in earlier videos. A July 1, 2024 upload said he was interning at “a database company” in the city for the summer, making the April 2026 post read like a return to the same setting with a permanent role instead of an internship. (youtube.com) The closing note is simple: a creator who built an audience on internships and recruiting videos is now filming the slower part after the offer letter. The first software job, in his telling, is not a finish line but a month of setup, meetings and figuring out how to belong. (youtube.com)