How To Prep For Tech Interviews While Working Full-Time

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[ALifeEngineered]

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[Thinhnv]

Stay away from drama-filled comments (do I?) - here's a takeaway from the video:

- Focus on identifying and targeting your weakest areas.
+ Be intentional about preparing for things you tend to overlook.
+ Avoid being overly thorough during interview preparation.
- Find overlap between your work tasks and interview preparation.
- Plan backward from your interview day (right-to-left planning).

Action plan:
- Allocate 3 months for interview preparation.
- Spend 5 days pinpointing where to direct your attention.
- Break down preparation into manageable tasks.
- Set clear and achievable milestones.
- Anticipate and prepare for potential conflicts that could disrupt your plan.

[the_real_cookiez]

Long time follower here: Love the work you do. Just a bit of advice, you can be choosy with your sponsors to continue your image of wholesome tech prep person. Trust me, I know the pressure to make income, but you already have grown an account organically in record time. You can make a decent income from YT shorts with your subscribers and view count. There's no reason to sacrifice your long term vision for short term gain. You'll be fine. You have a wife and other revenues of income. And with your career, you should have a substantial safety net. Give yourself time.

[humanecoder]

Anyone else notice that formation costs $2500 per month?!

[luh-lat]

This is the most underrated career advice channel. Thanks for doing this. Proud to see a fellow Amazonian giving back like this.

[sriramananthakrishnan]

Steve, I really enjoy your videos and you were one of the few folks on Youtube who didn't peddle a course or some scammy site. This is new and I was a bit taken aback, mainly because I found your emphasis on navigating your career and soft skill alignment more useful as there are many other youtubers like neetcode for example from whom I can get lc prep from. This video felt like a sponsored message rather than a simple transaction of my attention for your time.

[coachaceofmen]

Thank you for this series of videos.It makes real sense.We often try to remember the wheel ourselves and never take a few moments just to listen to somebody who's got something good to say and can save us a lot of time and effort

[Neonb]

We really loved you, man. We trusted you, too. It's not too late to turn it back around

[ddosan]

Perfect timing. Couldn’t remember why I was learning Ancient Greek !!!

[AnthonyRiceMusic]

The breadth and depth first search part was great 3:20 I just got done studying leet code.

[alexzandermanning]

Let me fix that intro for you . “ So you have a decent job. You’re performing well. However you feel that you are capable of more, and the 5% raise you got this year doesn’t cover inflation…”

[rishavpaul]

@steve - most interview prep platforms are garbage and you should not endorse them. You can make money by providing 1:1 or 1:many career advice because that’s what you did at Amazon and that’s what you said you love doing.

[JohnVandivier]

bro is the only one advanced in linked lists

[Xeoncross]

A lot of extra work can save you a little planning.

Planning isn't fun, neither is trying to pick a date / set a goal. This same advice is given for investing, paying off debt, getting married, and most other important things.

The call out to avoid working on your biggest weakness is good. Long term improvement on weakness is good, but in the short term you can't sacrifice the whole package like that.

[RM-xrlq]

sad to see this guy turning into a sellout, these tech youtubers cant seem to help themselves... this one doesn't even have the excuse of needing a sponsorship from snake oil like formation

[bananabrann]

I understand the need to take sponsorships, however I'm super disappointed to see in-line style sponsorship on this content. Steve's content is soured by in-line ads, especially the endorsed ones ("I use this product" -type ads). I feel like the sponsorship in the beginning or at the end would have been much more appropriate, not even considering how unrelatable the product is in the first place

[SuperMacGuy]

Working RTL sounds great. If you can even plan. If you’re just laid off and need something asap, what is best? Some ppl aren’t even getting past ATS systems to have a real interview, no planning can combat that. Patient planning, and being ready. Some ppl don’t have the luxury of time like that.

[SuccessfulMiddleclassGuy]

I would request you to add moments in your video, so I can skip the content if I’m not worried about that portion😊

[JReuben]

Every year set asside a month for revising data structures and algorithms
ML interviews are tricky - because there are so many subfield specialities. If you learn 2000 techniques it becomes a blur

[cloudwithraj]

Great video with actionable tips Steve! Also, from Dijkstra's Algorithm to secret of life - everything roots back to the ancient Greek wisdom 🙏