the coding interview

The dreaded coding interview. Sometimes we get lucky and have to solve easy coding problems like reversing a linked list or inverting a binary tree. But sometimes it is much more difficult than that...

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[kennygunderman]

Shout out to Linus Torvalds for making an appearance in my video

[alext]

I literally learned hash maps yesterday. Now I gotta learn smash maps. Sigh

[bryanamezcua]

This was hilarious, well done! I’ve been in the industry for 6 years and still have no idea what I’m doing!!! :)

[krastgaming]

Everyday we stay further from cracking the code interview…

[strandingstranger]

you deserve atleast a million subs. your content is amazing.

[KevinNaughtonJr]

this is one of the best videos I've ever seen Kenny

[MitchyMitchhhhh]

Great video! As someone who is a little over 2 years into the field I can definitely relate. Even though Im confident in my development ability and resume I'm still terrified of having to do another coding interview. It's refreshing seeing you talk about development like a real human, the egos and facades can be unreal lol

[thesouthsidedev]

This was cool, I laughed while I was watching like I really laughed out loud. Not that fake lol shit you send to your friends and loved ones to keep the conversation less awkward.

[CedkGama]

Story time! One day I had an interview like that with 2 devs. I faced the smashmap problem where they gave me a few minutes to solve it. I told them that was the kind of things that I was solving when learning to code 8 years ago and that the question was downgrading compared to the responsibility of the job (I wanted to insult their question and also skip it because I didn't program those data structure in a very long time). They didn't say anything. Obviously they where waiting for me to start solving it. So, I programmed a smashdic instead which was a more efficient and complex solution. I did that because I didn't really understood clearly the restriction they wanted and there was no going back to ask. Instead of reviewing my code or even trying to make it compile, I submitted it to them and said "I'm done we'll check how it works"... Of course there were errors and mistakes, but while they were reading the code, commenting that it wasn't what they asked, but understanding it was designed to solve the problem, they were not reading into the details all the mistakes I've made. Each time they skipped a mistake, I told them and they were impressed that I saw what they didn't see or that I was able to argue about my code.

Sometimes, I think that since those interview's goal is to make people fail so that they can feel special or superior by having the job and not others, handling a provoked failure situation was a good approach with them. That way they can feel superior because I already lowered myself enough. In the end, I got the job. It was a very toxic environment to work in and after 2 months I left. I learned that passing trash interview can lead to work in trash. It's a case of pride gone wrong in my opinion. We're happy that we open the locked door since it was perceived as a challenge, but never really considered what was on the other side. If it stinks, there's probably rotten garbage somewhere and that is not a comfortable place to sit.

[making.fronds]

As a comp sci student who loves to ask software engineers about their work and then doesn’t understand a freakin word of the answer…. RED KEY-SWITCH ALL DAY

[WWFAOWNER]

you really put a lot of effort in this one, it's really good! Keep going brother

[d.e]

The twist there with the impostor and the pills was amazing and so realistic. What a good channel content I found today omg (I'm binging your videos)

[FreelanceMVP]

Absolutely hilarious. Found you via the Upwork videos KEEP IT UP KENNY

[RodrigoGarciactg]

Bro!! This is gold lol I have 3 weeks left of my bootcamp but they havnt taught us smah maps yet smh.

[CodyEngelCodes]

Okay now that I watched the video that was hilarious. The pajama pants with fancy dress shirt was a nice touch 🤣

[swaptikghosh]

I like these kind video of Kenny like he used to make five years ago ❤

[MRKSC]

You just ascended to a new level Kenny lmfaoo this was awesome

[shadownor]

Once in an interview I was tasked with the old fizbuzz test

[caio]

I live in Brazil and I’d like to learn how to code so I can work for a US company remotely, do you think this is a viable option? How often do US companies contract remote workers?

[riskromer]

Man, can you make a video of your take on companies like Revature? Thanks!