The Projects That Got Me Into Google (tips for software engineering projects)

In this video, I do a deep dive into the coding projects that I had on my resume when I applied and was accepted to Google. I also share some tips on what differentiates good programming projects from bad software engineering projects.

[clem]

This video is pretty long, so here are some timestamps for your convenience:
- 0:00 | badass card trick for smashing of the like button
- 0:28 | introduction
- 1:37 | project #1 intro - Pathfinding Visualizer (link below)
- 6:33 | 5 things that make great software engineering projects
- 14:12 | project #4 - Momentum Chrome Extension Clone
- 17:25 | conclusion

[brianevans]

Five markers of a good project:
1. Very visually engaging
2. Wow factor
3. Interactivity
4. Easy for someone to understand
5. Did you learn something while making it

[boyanglyu]

When I was learning Dijkstra/Bellman-Ford during the past semester, our professor introduced this tool to help us visualize what was really going on. Now I realized that this is made by you. It's a very cool project and it helped me a lot. Thanks!

[dinkleberg]

Who else is embarrassed by how insane these projects are compared to ur own?

[pulisichhh]

hmmm, suddenly I don't feel like applying to google anymore.

[FunkLchx]

he just called me stupid for 17 minutes

[RachitJain]

I can also do that card trick. I use the pause button on my camera though.

[sumeetbhujang]

The Path finder algorithm project was something next level... Really liked it.. Those were really great projects.. 🙌🙌

[cassiopeiaeatssnacks]

Clement: Own programming language
Me: *ah yes, another weather/todo/web app*

[KaplaBen]

"Moving down to the less interesting projects, we decided to create a programming language with an interpreter for it."








Okay

[duanediaz]

im surprised! i was in a dead end with my C# project called maze randomizer and solver, but when i saw your pathfinder project it kinda give me a hint on what to do. thank you and keep up the great videos

[victorchris]

If you are just starting out, please do not ditch your CRUD project because of these mind blowing Algo projects. Complete your "beginner" project, then move up to something more challenging and so on. Eventually you will arrive here. Btw, you are a genius Clement

[mohammadhijazi]

Thanks man, you just gave me a 17:46 min video that explains in details why I'm not being hired by google in this lifetime.
Saved me the time of applying, really thanks😅

[LongboardsBE]

Very nice projects, great tips even though i’m not going for a software interview

[blitzace]

Flex all you want. These are amazing and you worked very hard for it!

[AniVerseChannel]

Dude, your projects are extremely clean and well thought out! Good job!!

[GPT-X]

Simply awesome, your first two projects blew me away. Both are great to demo, particularly your pathfinding visualizer.

[dtpietrzak]

I've watched about 5 videos of yours over the last few days, and I gotta say, you are great. Thanks man!

[ilyesmilyesm]

be aware man fb may fire you if your channel got big x)

[namiv]

OMG this is so cool!!! Basically even a newbie in computer science can understand the algorithm by visualizing!