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Wow 4:32 I can really relate to it, I did it for my loved ones

In india this is on steroids people do bare minimum of 800 questions and even do competitive programming on top of that

he said "onlyfans", lol

The real question I would have is why the fuck would you want to work for Google?

The breakfast and dinner is just a perk. Most people go home before dinner imo

The last line was powerful !! Thank you !!

i realized this earlier, now much happier

nice books you got there

Doing stupid 3 liner puzzles does not mean you can write a full size production ready application that actually works.

Very wise advice. I appreciate you posting this, and this is definitely something I'm thinking about as someone who is finishing an associates in software development.

This reliance on puzzles is ridiculous. No need for formal education or experience. Who cares if you've actually put together a production worthy app. Puzzles are the only thing that matters...

... and who cares... Name one time (in an actual job) where you reversed a linked list. It is irrelevent.

I question the value of the process. First, most developers are introverts and this kind of “code on demand” filters out genuinely good devs who vapor lock. Second, the leet code approach is not even remotely real. Actual daily development tasks are far more mundane and only occasionally do you even get to the detail level required by high-pressure leet-code puzzles. The reality is the interview process is gate keeping elitism. I could easily construct interviews that FAANG devs couldn’t pass if wanted to be an ass. And when everyone wants to work for you, you can pretend that your process is great. When I interview candidates, I’m looking for technical understanding and “comfort”. An experienced dev won’t have difficulty conversing about architecture, data structures, language quirks, tools, libraries, etc. None of that requires writing code that you would only ever write once and you’d take an hour or two to compose.

There's an old fashioned trick to breaking into an industry and it's called working in the mailroom

I had your video playing in the background and I thought I was listening to Randall Park talking about programming

It's strange that you talk about doing it "as a career." That's not the default state of a software engineer in my mind, probably because I'm self-taught

(Before the loop, setup the initial location of the pointers and set prev.next to null or whatever the "end" code you're using) Loop start curr&.next = PREV* Prev* = curr* curr* = next* If(next&.next === null) { return next* // done and here is the new beginning } next* = next&.next Back to loop start I believe that shpuld reverse the linked list

Because reversing a linked list, or other ‘leet-code’ questions are so important, right? Trash.

Push the nodes of a linked list onto a stack and then pop them off, rebuilding the linked list in reverse. I'm guessing you could also use recursion.

if i need something - i just google it; Remembering all the possible features language can provide is pointless since head is always busy with business logic; Knowing language and building easy to support code is bit different from efficiently reversing linkedlist skill;

And the Googlers who did not fail write an AI system generated responses such as you can glue pizza or eat rocks.

ll.Reverse() Now, quit playing games and go do some actual engineering. We've got oodles of neckbeards that can reverse a linked list by hand in sub-constant time no less, but can't actually design useable software. Its bananas. The industry is optimizing _way_ too far into the wrong attributes.

9 step interview just to get free salads. what a joke

Yeah they just know databases, replication, ci/cd, Kubernetes, docker, webpack, vite, bloom, tailwind, html, htmx, css, scss, postcss, GCP, AWS, Azure but they can't revet damn linked list!

Great video ! I've understanded your message and i respect it

Trust me if you never need to reverse a linked list for any reason you won't know how to do it. Yes it's just 6 lines but if you don't know how to do it and have never done any linked list type work before, it's going to take a whiteboard, diagrams, arrows, and 15+ minutes to figure out. That's why it's a very valid leetcode question for those that don't know it. It used to be a medium problem and from what I have observed in my 10 years it's definitely a medium problem. It only got knocked down to easy because everybody and their mom started grinding leetcode for practice and 99%+ have looked at how to do it already. The interviews are brutally hard for a singular reason: these companies get 100-1000x the applications they typically need. A filter and in this case a brutal filter is needed to filter down all of those applications to 1 candidate. There will absolutely be an element of luck with what questions you get. It's inevitable. If you're reading this and don't have anybody to practice an interview with, simulate the same conditions ~30 mins and a whiteboard (or similar) and just record yourself doing a problem while thinking out loud. Wait 2-3 weeks (or long enough that you forget what you did) and then watch it back and take detailed notes as if you yourself were an interviewer. Then cringe really hard at yourself and correct all of those mistakes one by one in the future. I find this works quite well for almost anybody, as long as you do it.

Who cares

Idk what candidates you are interviewing, I have never received any Interview call despite applying a dozen times. I have 2.5 yo experience out of college Still gets rejected 🤔

Thank you Alex! Your insightful Linkedin posts and now your UA-cam channel provide even more insight. Looking forward to more videos!

Nice part with the red Tesla 😂

Bro, I know you, you post so many helpful posts in linkedin, and now you're making contents on youtube to help people. I'm learning a lot from your contents, thanks 👍

very helpful explanations👍

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Now I want a mock Google interview just to say I tried it. Google isn't a dream job anymore either.

Great video! i think there's a lot of truth to this. nearly every big tech swe i've talked to says they just wanna do the job until they're financially independent. And many burn out long before they get there. I think it's a very hard job to do unless you enjoy it at least a little bit. Will power alone will only get you so far. A few weeks before i left my job at google i literally spent 3 weeks fixing permissions issues, yeah i think i'll stick to leetcode..

Love your videos but just be careful foam rolling lower back can actually cause injury!

Oh yo I seen you on linkedin lol. I saw on your moma that you left this year. Was a it layoff by any chance? Why didn't you just find another team?

I know you didn't just casually say **Onlyfans** land didn't expect us to notice bro loll Love your videos man: keep em coming!

Moving to a new city is isolating and under the radar there is homesickness even if you’re excited to leave. Embracing being able to be alone doesn’t = being alone for a new chapter of your life. It just means when you are alone, you are still ok and in tune with your needs. It’s empowering and a skill. Try not to get too wrapped up on a timeline, great friends and relationships are built and maintained over time.

Hey Alex, I've really been loving your channel after finding it recently and I would love to hear you talk about personal projects. I'd like to hear your thoughts on them, how to stand out, and how to make them a stand-in/substitute for an internship experience, especially in this current job market.

Lol. Says the guy earning 300k+ USD, packs a powerful passport, and probably never had to struggle his whole life. People have every right to turn their lives around if they desire to. Coding is simply a means to and end. Not everyone lives to work, some work to live and pick up skills and jobs to unlock specific doors of opportunity in their lives.

Your last point is the best- this is a skill and you can learn it.

It depends what you define as a software engineer. If you mean try to get a job at a fortune 500 company, it's different than a startup, or even trying to be an entrepreneur and make and promote your own software. Not everyone does it just for the money, I spent years at one point working as a bus driver part time and making games full time. Best coding days of my life, I could wake up and code whatever I wanted. So I think it depends.

Why do most start up’s not give a f about leetcode and more interested in what you can do or past projects. Big contrast from FANG companies.

Why do most start up’s not give a f about leetcode and more interested in what you can do or past projects. Big contrast from FANG companies.

Every video of yours is a gem! Thank you

I just started my DSA journey. I want to get into google one day like you did Thanks for making videos here and sharing your knowledge and experience on LinkedIn!

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No worries if you are rejected. About a 1/3 of Googlers will pass this interview. After working for a few years, you'll forget how to quickly solve some of these silly questions, because in real work is a completely different skill.

Not many people get drinks after work anymore, thanks to pandemic in general. So you aren't missing out sadly.