Coding Interviews Be Like

Coding interviews are hard. But why grind LeetCode, study data structures and algorithms, and read Cracking the Coding Interview when you can simply "throw a hashmap at the problem"?

This video may or may not be based on a personal experience...

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[nicholast]

this was actually based on a personal experience

[bluegizmo]

Bombshell: they're not actually interviewing you, they're just stuck on a code problem and want a free solution! 🤣

[SkyJus]

"Do you think you could make it faster?"
"Nah, I'm good"

[simonanikolova]

In my coding interview, I realized I could use a hashmap to solve one of the tasks. Then I remembered this video. I smiled and became less nervous. I passed the interview. Next week is my second interview. It is for my dream intern position. Wish me luck, guys

[brunomillalaf]

I studied coding and struggled during the interviews. Now I’m a full time burger developer at McDonalds.

[haseebazam]

Don't forget the part where they say "Good, now we'll move on to a hard problem"

[sb-joch]

I was literally asked the same question that I had solved the previous night, word for word. I deliberately started writing a naive approach, then halfway through that, pretended like I had just got a revelation, commented out the naive code and barfed up the O(n) solution like a freaking genius. Code worked.

Didn't get the job.

[ameyb]

I got hired for my first job in an IT company on my first try a few months ago. The interview guys were very chill. The HR asked about my life experience s and my side hustles along with studies. The technical guy asked questions about Java, Android development stages and later on, Angular (which I didn't know much about). Moved to a new city now and the working environment is great. Such interviewers are awesome.

[personxyz]

This was my real experience, started interviews past 2 weeks rejected by 3 and counting. Each rejection is an experience and become better I am sure I will get through this phase.

[peacelove]

"That....should work?"- Every Programmer

[amyb]

This was actually just helpful for me to have some different ways to look at this problem! Thank you!

[RealitaetsverweigererDerAmpel]

I'm a german software engineer working at a big company developing MASSIVE software (over 80 million lines of code) and i've never had a "coding interview" lol. Also i think that understanding problems quickly and knowing where to find the information you need is a far more important skill than explaining a sorting algorithm when you've done nothing else but learning them for the last couple of days. When you work and don't refesh your sorting algorithm knowledge you forget 95% of it after a few weeks anyways and even then you can just google it. Not something to differentiate good coders from bad coders imo. Using the best optimal runtime algorithms possible is pretty important but as i said.. you can just google it, it's just important to have heard it once and to know that it is a thing.

[anad.]

New comp sci student here. I either will be back in a few years to say “haha, true” or I’ll have changed careers. Regardless, great vid.

[needmusicnow]

Do I know programming? No.
Do I understand the jokes? No
Have I been marathoning all these videos and somehow loving them? Absolutely

[thereasonableprogrammer]

I first saw this video a couple of years ago. I had never solved a leetcode problem and it was all gibberish to me.

Now, every single thing makes sense and are intuitive solutions. Never give up, keep up learning and trying with your Leetcode!

[jeromesimms]

I remember the first time I watched this video over 6 months a go as a CS freshman I didn't even know what a HashMap was much less anything regarding time or space complexity but now I have been pleasantly surprised that I understand everything in this video now

[pankaj]

I own an IT company. When we take interviews we allow candidates to use Google or any other resource. We hire people even though they failed technical. The most important thing for us is willingness to learn.

[mirelvtl]

Dude when the interview started I felt like I was the one being interviewed. I felt that fear in me

[aylith]

The main thing to take away from these interviews is that you will always be questioned on your solution to the problem. Invariably you will be able to improve it to some degree, the interviewer just wants to see if you know how. From my experience when I didn't know something it wasn't a bad thing, it was just a way to find the extent of my knowledge. I got good feedback about my solution after the interview and got the job. So when you are in this situation be calm, do the best you can and if you don't know something then don't worry about it, worst case scenario is you don't get the job and you never see that interviewer again.

[MultiBillionaire_Motivation]

This is way of showing people how tech interview works with kind of melodrama is brilliant idea wise, appreciated 👏