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When all companies think they're google
Lol 😂
Hell yeah, but not during salary discussion 😐
@@ent_World yes , with their "competitive salary" myth
@@elvincitore1512 😂
Yeah
Last week a company wanted me to build a time management website as an entry test. The salary was like 1000€ lol
I thought this would be satire, but I like that you are expanding into documentaries.
im gonna just do a food truck one of these days and leave all this behind
@@Anonymous-nj2ow That would be so liberating!
music does a job
On interview: reverse a linked list.
Actual job: only frontend tasks. 🤣
Unfortunally, it's real life :-(
@@cyrillcheckout Really? Man I hate frontend! I'm a backend guy. Though my job makes me do both... Frontend to me is more work.
@@SI0AX Ok, dude. I'm happy for you. But in my opinion, it's absolutely true, when interviewer asks you about hashmap, and you're only frontend-guy and make another job. P.S. I'm backender as well and look at this TI every week.
@@cyrillcheckout I think that may have to do with HR not knowing anything about tech and just googling some random "interview programming" questions. They don't even know what the job position even means.
@@SI0AX yeap. I agree with you
That moment when you're looking for the weaknesses that would help the company.
I seriously couldn't think of a way to answer that question.
@@rakshit3515 Just say something like you sometimes work so much that you forget about your own life, it shows that you're a work hard person
@@benmatt8940 thanks, I'll surely say in the future If I asked weakness 😅✌️
I disagree with some of the comments above, I think that people see through the "I work too hard/I care too much" answers pretty easily, and it comes off as really fake, and obvious that you're just disguising a strength. If you're interested, I recommend searching this interview question up, there are actually some really good answers/advice out there.
@@benmatt8940 everyone and their mom says that, employers are like fuck man that shit again.
Academics spend months if not years to come up with those algorithms and we are expected to pull them out of our assess like fucking magic
Literally so true
literally just memorizing
That’s like saying that you can’t be asked to calculate an indefinite derivative on a calculus test because academics spent years developing the proofs
@@AxiomaticUncertainty When you are in a coding interview, you are supposed to start from bruteforce method and make it efficient. Plot twist - you already know the most efficient solution and you are just pretending to have come up with it just now. So, ideally, interviewer is expecting you to come up with most efficient solution on the fly.
IG that explains what the interviewer is expecting from candidate
@@swamysriman7147 because the brute force solution usually has steps that can be optimized and that aren’t entirely isolated from the efficient solution? It’s not like they’re expecting you to break at Manacher’s algorithm, and, again, I’d emphasize that you’re not developing anything during these interviews but rather adapting algorithms that you already know to a new context.
It’s not rocket science…
Shout out to everyone feeling this on a personal level
I gave one in the afternoon.
@@ArunKumar-gz3ol how was it bruh.....
At least you got an interview.
word💀
pain
True
😭😭
fuck this one hit me :(
"Our employees are destined to work with our company from birth" really got me there lol.
Fr
Seriously, “confess your love to us”
Amazon
Moral of the story: Brush up on your dynamic programming 👍
As if it was that easy
It's easy, just live on LeetCode, that's all. Now dance monkey, DANCE! You want to go down that slide in the lobby and sit in the bean bag chair while eating your free lunch, don't you?
@@ricanteja how do you leetcode? Do you just see the question and look for the solution instantly ? Or
Do you try for
Like 30
Minutes and then you look for the solution?
@@sanskarkaazi3830 Personally I try to give myself a real world time limit of between 30 to 45 minutes. I talk out loud and sort of walk myself through the solution. If I get sort of close to at least a brute force solution I keep pushing. Learning that way is great for developing your intuition. If after 30 minutes I am no closer to a solution than when I started, I give up and look up a RUclips video breaking down the algo. What is important is understanding the answer. This channel in particular has some great content to help in that regard. Don't waste time, it's not worth it. These people want cookie cutter responses.
Or assert your dominance and be like "I know I must use Dynamic Programming but I also know it sucks so I never practice it, let's solve it together" to the interviewer 😂👌
So every coding interview results in crying at the end. Okay, got it sounds good
Lol
Nar personally I found them to be all ne pretty nice, you get to talk to an expert about their tech stack and their product. Then again interviews are infinitely easier when you have a lot to say.
My blood presure went up to 160 and I spent three days without doing a danm thing. I got devastated.
same
My speciality when it comes to programming, hope that gets me bonus points.
By the way, just an update for the people that keep asking. I have my Amazon and Google onsites scheduled for mid july + Facebook hopefully getting scheduled soon. The processes take forever and I don't want to get an apartment and then have to move right away so I'm stuck until then. Will be traveling soon and doing videos with a bunch of your favorites!
All the best 👍
“You can do it!💪😎✨👊”
You'll do great Nick!
Good luck nick, ur videos got me into Twitch :)
Nice nick, be patient
You'll get there
After recently being laid off and getting back out there, I've come to realize these interviews are no joke. I've gotten to a few final rounds and have been rejected. Rejection is tough, it can easily knock you down, but you just have to keep on pushing. I have another final round interview tomorrow, wish me luck fellas! And best of luck to those of you in similar situations!
How did you go?
Updatessss
Update
I have a few final rounds coming up this week, including my #1 choice from when I first began interviewing a few weeks ago. I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Best of luck you all
Too real man too real. Worst part of it all is that i'm pretty sure many professional programmers would have a hard time identifying a dynamic programming solution.
Only people that no life leet code are good at identifying dynamic programming solutions
@@stef6963 It's even worse if it's not a DP problem in a direct sense, but you first have to notice that you need to transform the problem into another problem and then identify the subproblems you can use for a DP approach. Source: meh.
In general, I feel like solving "hard" problems on LC is much more pattern recognition and memorization of common strategies. But at the same time it feels like interviewers want to see you coming up with these approaches out of nowhere, as if you realized Bellman's optimality principle in just 30 minutes without being a scientist.
I am a professional programmer that earns way above average (in germany) and I have absolutely no clue what dynamic programming even is, lmao
@@GuRuGeorge03 Who do you work for? Just out of curiosity because I also live in germany
To be honest that task is quite obvious dp due to the input limits, although it takes some experience to even know how to apply dp in simple tasks.
The crying part made me feel so low. Damn those hard DP questions!! Raw emotions of interview rejections shown beautifully :(
I did hundreds of interviews and actually did cry once. Every second of this interview was relatable. I’m just glad I found a company that I liked at the end
😓😓😢😢😭
"We're going to be using a shared Google Doc..."
This is how I knew I was in for a good time.
I applied for an internship and after a month of emailing back and forth and an 1.5 hour interview i was rejected because my cognitive test result was "just a bit below average" and have i managed to get a higher score i would have to do a technical interview. I live in Europe so all of this is for an unpaid internship. Those companies make you feel like you need to be so freaking smart,passionate,talented and even fkn gifted just to get your entry level job,really plays with your confidence.
can u tell me wt kind of Albert Einstein work they make u do in the coding company???
You probably dodged a bullet there. Take it as a good thing and keep going because a better thing will present itself to you. Good luck!
This reminded me of my interview. The first problem was to reverse an array and second was a DP problem where I need to calculate minimum number of steps to reach the destination.I failed pretty hard. DP literally scares me to this day. Even if I solve 100 DP problems, the 101th problem looks like its from another planet.
That DP problem is pretty much trivial
It's same situation for all guys. Don't give up Dp probelms are more of imagination guys and as soon as u see the probelm if u think it can't be done u lost the half battel. Think like u have sword in hand in battel feild and opposition is chasing u . Don't give up start typing code start thinking u will end to a solution.
@Shah Bhuiyan I'm starting to see what your problem is and it's not dp problems lol
@Shah 샤 lol dp is not crap, imagine wanting a SE job and calling dp crap
its because dp is not a topic like graphs or trees, its simply a technique. So the problems are totally different, each problem is unique and sometimes is really difficult to see how to apply the dp. Thats why i find it so difficult
4:40 "Wow, that is pretty weak."
"You need to know this for the job and we want to make sure you can work on our tech stack."
Their tech stack: Libraries last updated during Obama's 1st admin and uses a version of Ruby so old, all other apps are jury rigged around this monstrosity.
Yup. I had a software engineering gig in 2009 when they were "researching" i.e. having a pissing match over whether to upgrade their ancient enterprise frameworks to Java 5 or whether they would skip that and go straight to Java 6.
Reminder: this was 2009. Java 6 was nearly 3 years old by then.
“This is very relevant to what you’ll be working on”
Me: yes I would like to apply for a front end position
Company: reverse this binary tree
Me: this isn’t faang
Company: this interview is over
Happened to me with a Snapchat interview. He gave me 2sum and was dying of laughter inside of how easy it was. Engineer then have me brace expansion II and I was like fkkkkkkkk 😭
I get the feeling they did that on purpose.
Its a trick.
Two sum is hard tough :/
@@annisaautami wait till you see an actual hard problem:(
Literally same. Facebook gave me Word Break II and I died
"I didn't even know about the company" So accurate... Who do you think you are? Google?
Interview: "you should solve this optimization problem with simuleted annealing, graphs, hash maps, and hopefully a O(1) time and space complexity... "
Real job: "your first task is to center this div inside another div"
Is this for real?
@@sentimentscity26 more often than you think. Lol
@@sentimentscity26 Yes, or add a new column to a fixed report which has no pagination or proper formatting...
I thought I was really dumb when this happened to me, this makes me feel better, to know it's pretty normal here.
everything is normal 🙂 don't worry DSA take time 😂
@@mahendrabishnoi716 arre 😵 bhai 3 emoji🥴 aur chipka🧐 de 🙏
When the interviewer finishes your pandemic question for you 🤣🤣🤣 One of your better videos for sure!
Yes of course, dynamic programming is so much relevant to the work done in all these companies
What??!!! DP is not at all useful for any job.
@@harshshelar that was sarcastic comment
@@southern-sunshine My bad. Just frustrated with these DP shit.
@@harshshelar we all do friend,we all do
Really? DP isn't useful in any job? How about videogame development? Robotics? Image processing? DP is everywhere. Maybe in this kind of videos there's a large bias of people who fall into backend/frontend types of job, but there's life beyond that.
That had me weak😭😭😭 he said “work life balance? Thank you for your time”
Lol
That happened to me several times, even when I thought I did well, but after that (2 years later) things started changing, I guess it because of working more, studying more, and practicing more.
Another thing is the place you are being interviewed, some of them are trash and you should feel lucky not being part of them.
Yes, this. I try to identify the trash places as practice interviews. Still stings when the trash rejects though.
@@athens31415 Sure, those places can help you also to improve your skills and or learn to avoid making the same mistakes again and again. I gained confidence and that’s a good thing.
Although, people reading this should be carefully, don’t take our replies as advices in a 100%, take the things you think are useful carefully.
I have done interviews for a lot of jobs and jump companies for a lot of time in the past 5 years, and the pattern is always once the test is unreasonable (both too easy or to out of the bound for the stated position) , the employers is always shitty one.
5 jobs so far, 2 is really nice, 3 is total garbage, and both the nice jobs (including my current employer) is always had reasonable test and or giving chances when mistake happened during the test / interview.
3 other is either too unreasonably hard or simply too easy (almost like desperate).
This video and its message genuinely has me stressed the hell out and makes me question my skills. I want to enjoy my summer break and work my job at golf course but a voice inside me keeps reminding me to do leetcode and start personal projects etc… so stressful and I know I have to start early.
Maybe I’m thinking too hard lol
life is also meant to be enjoyed, not all of it has to be spent working.
Yea same. Even though it’s summer for me, I can’t enjoy it 😭😭 I’ve been just grinding to get a job or internship
@@C0reDefender glad you said this because I just graduated and keep telling myself I need to do personal projects and just cant get into it yet...
just work hard but without stressing yourself .
me too , it's summer and i'm not taking any break but this shouldn't be a problem if you love what you're doing
"How did the pa-"
Bro I thought I was being really insightful whenever I asked this.
Unless a company explicitly explained in the job posting, it's a legitimate question. Some companies are full time on site, some are full time remote, some are mixed. Now we have more people preferring remote and companies transitioning to remote work. It's all over the place.
@@omgapotatoe Remote: Live wherever the fuck you want and avoid traffic jams and vehicle maintenance. How can anybody *not* want remote.
I'm going to quit my job soon to go remote when I get my own place.
@@SI0AX Really? I've been forced remote here in the UK and some days honestly hope I could just go to bed and not wake up. My employer always offered a fully flexible "hybrid" model where you could come and go as you pleased - but that is out with the garbage and it's probably not coming back. Home, all day, every day. I always hated working from home anyway and my office is only 4 miles away.
The isolation is killing me and I'm becoming forgetful, not sleeping properly and just don't feel like me. The UK has decided that everything can go back to normal if it chooses... except you know offices will just play the "protect our staff blah" card and keep everyone at home forever, while we have full house football matches and schools are packed.
Fuck this. I tested positive for COVID-19 in May 2020 and have had both shots of the vaccine... yet in corporate eyes I am a health hazard. I am seriously considering changing career to something that cannot be done from home, even if it's just short term for a year or so.
@@mxbx307 But can't you just leave your house to have fun when you are done working? Or is it like 100% lockdown in the UK still?
That video reveals the grim reality of interviewers. The business world only cares about what it can get from you. Nice work Nick White!
I laughed out loud when the senior dev sorted the list of problems for minimum acceptance %
yoo, people on here are really smart, to this day, i dont think i could print a hello world in a live coding session, however when im working alone i can pretty much do anything lol
Software engineering is such a toxic field of work full of know it alls and under appreciation of talent. You are meant to know everything day one and are treated like a piece of property once you start working
I'm actually pretty happy in my company and I don't feel like "a piece of property" 🥺
Yep. I did a software engineering internship in 2009 and it totally changed the course of my life. Fucking hated it and took on a Masters to be able to get into a different field, this was a big deal because back in those days all CS graduates in the UK were destined to become software engineers of some kind, your grades and university directed the sort of company and development work you'd be doing. In short - no Masters or serious private study? You'd be a coder, it was your destiny. UK CS degrees weren't producing "Computer Scientists", they were producing legions of mediocre programmers and that's not what industry wanted.
Thinks have changed now thankfully.
I found everything about the software engineering world was as you described. Conceited and occasionally very rude know-it-alls, with titles like "Senior Development Manager" i.e. just another coder with direct reports, who treated everyone else in the IT world as beneath them.
Unfortunately I got into cybersecurity and it's the exact same there. Another career change here we go.
Don't really know how you ended up with such a jaded mindset. But I have satisfying job in IT for years now. Never been looked like a property and have good boss that oftentimes talk heart to heart with me. And yes, it is heart to heart not "Corporate Bullshit" kind of conversation.
It is not about the profession, it is about the work environment. Any profession can be toxic if the people inside it is toxic to begin with.
Why is this so accurate I wasn’t expecting that at all.
“Our employees are destined to work here from birth”
Man, just reading the comments, made me feel for everyone. Im so proud of each and every one, putting their A game into interviews and prepping. Its a tough world out there, and I wish everyone gets a a job that pays well, and treats you well. May reversing linked Lists be in in our favor
just before clicking on video was doing that wildcard dp problem
I think that candidates that don't bs and don't come with pre-canned answers should be recompensated, but recruiters are dumb, like really dumb.
Just had an interview today and the second question is exactly fking dynamic programming. Luckily it’s a leetcode easy that I have solved before. But really though is any dp question even easy
Lol The line How did pandemic affect work life balance and then cut off was epic !!!
I can remember an interviewer, he was going through all my projects and belittling them by all means and boasting about himself. I was like what an psychopath. I was terrible after the interview and my motivation dropped tl zero. But some people are so good interviewer, they can see the best out of anyone even if someone is doing little mistakes.
Sad to hear about that where was the interview?
The crazy thing is, this is how I failed my linkedin interview. On the behavioral portion, they asked what was my weaknesses are times I failed, completely bombed it smh
Hope you got in somewhere ❤️
Probably not the most motivating stuff to watch right now while trying to land a job
I was expecting something funny. Totally did not expect this 😭😭
Exactly how I feel after every system design round 😂😂
I was at an internship for only 2 weeks and this was 100% representative of that experience. They kept calling me the backend mastermind, yet I didn't have a single clue where they got that from and didn't have any experience at all back then, they also asked me all the other questions about how it ties with the company policies ect even though it didn't make any sense to be honest
My last interview was all about the interviewers asking me about how I would perform tasks in their environment. We got to a point where I was like, why don't you show me your environment since you keep talking about as if I am already familiar with it? Just questions that were totally impossible to handle. Very long winded setups, then asking me, so given the current environment where would you first look to begin solving this problem? I get that maybe they were trying to see how much information I was able to retain and do some intuitive filling in of the blanks. But seriously, this was the entire interview. The code portion of the interview was nothing but a bunch of jargon that I struggled to find the relevancy. As if they were trying to get me to architect a solution in 5 minutes. double uughh.. I've got to do a better job of vetting companies that I entertain interview offers for.
Bravo Nick! Please make Part 2 -- after your tech interview (or prostate exam), you sit and wonder "why are they not contacting me?" And you cry some more ...
You just need that one person to give you a shot and get your foot in the door. Even if you’re semi-qualified, as long as you show real interest in learning and have the drive to do so without being spoon fed, you’ll quickly grow to fill that role. Always aim slightly higher than your qualifications for your own self growth, but not so high that you consistently underperform in that role even when putting in 100%. That would devastate your self esteem. I’ve interviewed devs who yielded a totally opposite level of interest and temperament on the job as what they claimed/showed in their interviews. This doesn’t work out well for anybody.
That's not true now. Nowadays they expect far too much knowledge and skills for entry level positions and entry level responsibilities.
Outperformed 90% of their candidates, had all their job requirements, interviews went well and I was still not good enough... They decided to go with a guy that had a B2B experience in the field (nowhere was that experienced described or even talked about). It's absolutely brutal nowadays 💀
@@angelg3642 That’s frustrating. If it’s a small company or they have specialized needs they’ll often go for the more experienced person. Hiring entry level devs is a delayed investment that (imo) pays off better in the long run but you see more of that at medium size companies. Few tips.. have a couple solid projects under your belt and host them somewhere to reference on your resume.. if there’s a specific listed position you’re targeting, optimize your resume to appeal to it specifically, think of it like sales i.e “you want xyz well here’s what I’m offering you to address xyz… and apply/interview relentlessly since in the end it’s a game of numbers.
When you search for dynamic programming questions and then sort by the lowest acceptance rate. That was a nice touch. Really made me laugh
In the what question do you have for me I would've asked for the solution to dynamic programming
2 weeks into my first software engineering job and still experiencing this exact feeling every single time I get a code review 😭
The part about work-life balance was gold lol
I feel sad, don't know why
Ohh man, my heart broke at the end.
One tip for everyone: I used to suck in behavioral portion till I realized I just have to say what they wants to hear.
So true
Lying is gold
This hurt my soul. I don't know how I am going to recover or a get a job soon
That is literally the same question i asked to every one of my interviewer😂😂
me too🤣
What’s that code block thing in Google doc? It looks so damn good to use for coding interview
This made me sad cuz I can clearly see him playing me as a interviewee
Literally every programming interview I’ve seen…yeahhhh we need you to know every single language that ever existed and all cloud platforms
Lmao I've been there when they pulled up a dp question only to realize the solution afterwards
I'm enrolling to an accelerated uni for a bachelors in Information Science and this is making me question maybe software jobs here in the US are too far out of reach. I've read countless nightmare stories about grinding leetcode and still not being good enough.
Its becoming saturated with everyone and their grandma entering the field. So competition is bound to grow O(2^n)
Bro the last 30 secs of this video had me in tears.
class Solution {
public boolean isMatching(String s, String p) {
return s == p;
}
}
F in the chat for Nick
This feeling remains constant but the moment when you get a job after so many bad interviews sometimes reverses the linked list of depression
Yes I can definitely relate to this
Lol I wouldn't know how to reverse linked list. These tasks are stupid. If I ever needed that, I have Google. And DP also sucks, I don't even remember what's going on there
lol @ "It's All predetermined"
This is soo me😞. This is truly sad, only few can understand 🥺😭
don't be sad , you'll master it after a while 🙂
My dad wants me to code but i don't like it
so i found my right channel
Been there, did that crying too. And I am looking for more. Cheers mate.
So real…. It hurts on a personal level
This physically hurt me!!! I haven't said "oooooooo" out loud in months. Anyways, I'm now subscribed
Before video: Hyped to watch him ace it and get a job... motivated af...
After video: Depressed to death.. thinking of uber driving as my career option
Fuck man I felt this
I had one interview I was doing great with, and then I forgot a certain algorithm I hadn’t used since college and I didn’t get the position
feelsBadMan
Hey fellas, if you recently bombed your coding interview cheer up. In the past two months I've bombed Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Tesla. :-)
Why did you use the word "bomb"? Isn't bombing something means dominating and total win?
Hilarious !! You really nailed the hypocrisy in the whole interview process
Same thing happened with me about 2 months ago. Interviewers are rude most of the time. It is a fact
They act like you are there for free money and their time is a 1000$ an hour
**sorts hard problems by acceptance rate
wait that's illegal
All of my interviews went exactly like this jesus… its wild out there
Lmao 🤣 this was my last interview to a T
“Oh my fucking god” 😂😂😂
Coming back to this video after I just had an interview that went almost exactly this. The struggle is so real it's insane.
So on point. I love your channel Nick. Been subbed since 10k subs and following on LinkedIn. Definitely my favorite tech youtuber (As a non millionaire)
Work for your own dreams , or you have to become a part of other's dream.
when u asked about the pandemic
claaaaaaaaassic reverse a linked list
Okay i guess i have got no other option than to leave this planet and start a new business on keplar 452-b ,
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weaknesses: sometimes i try too hard. LMFAOOO too accurate
I had an interview with a company with a product I was interested in and asked some specific questions about some of the parts I was interested in knowing how it worked.
I was told I got rejected because I didn't seem interested in the job XD
Well you was interested in parts of their product but not in the job, makes sense?
@@0007-i2l I asked into how some parts of it worked which I at least think would be relevant if I was supposed to work on it :P
Watching this the night before an important interview, very heartwarming 🤣
the enormity of 500 leetcode problems in 2 weeks. only those who know, know the task this is
I applied for junior front-end dev. Few days ago, recruiter gave me senior dev test and he told me to do what I can and its fine even if I failed.
I totally busted the test but managed to solve few problems. Never heard from him again and I moved on as well.
What do you eat? What do programmers eat?
5:50 I can relate to it so badly
You're not alone
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Interview: Make something out of HTML
Job: Ok so starting off you're going to be working with NoSQL, React, ExtJS, XML, TypeScript, and won't be using HTML at all have fun
If you don’t get it the first time, take it as a learning experience. If you found the job to not be your thing during the interview forget about it.
Many companies think they can just ask you to solve impossible stuff, do a billion of steps before they even consider recruiting you, that’s a waste of time
And you didn't even get to the salary part, where the company talks about how they could get someone from India to do your job for 10 bucks an hour, so you need to take that into consideration before negotiating your salary with them...