The code looks like Java, do the questions in your area for Java Developers really look like this? Im from Poland, but I often aslo apply to international companies, and those mathematical problem solving seems a thing of the past here , assuming we are talkign about bussiness software. 10 years ago it could happen (i remember when Codility was very popular here, many problems were a variation on quicksort...) , but nowadays its usually just a lot of knowledge checking : some basic Java questions,.Java 8 constructs alwys, design patters, frameworks (Spring , hibernate etc.), webservices,SQL and no SQLdb , javascript, coding theory SOLID etc. , maybe they give you some code to review. I actually think its a better approach because that relates much more to what you will do at work with bussiness software. Unless you apply for games software or some niche science projects, I guess, but its rare with Java.
But as to the point, yeah, the mutistage interviews are really frustrating:). You tought you made it , but it turns out it was just the mid level boss:)
No shit this is actually kinda what one of the questions I was asked for my current position was - he basically just wanted my input on how I might go about solving a real problem he was working on, it was actually pretty neat
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 Edit: Got the job, worked in the company then switched to a company where I feel better
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.
@@nisaerdagu00322 It's not very difficult to tell when people act like they don't know something. The interviewer is generally more concerned about the thought process and ability to solve a problem they don't already know the answer to.
@@kekag yep. Theyre not testing memory. If you’re going to pretend you havent seen the problem (which is a good strategy) you cant just “have a revelation”. Sell the thought process. Write up the pseudocode for the naive approach and then say there’s definitely optimizations that can be made. Sit and think. Think aloud. Walk through logic that would lead to those “revelations”
i think interviewing candidate just based on algorithm solving is just stupid. In work 90% of employees will never encounter this. And things you want to test are untouched.
@@opatechnus That's a strange reply to the root comment. Anyway, if it's a good interview, the algorithm skills aren't meant to be a reflection of practical work, but rather, it demonstrates fundamental skills that are required to do good programming in general. A typical coder shouldn't spend much time optimizing, but they should at least not write code that's absurdly inefficient, and avoiding those pitfalls should be so natural that there's never even a conversation about it. That's why these kinds of technical questions are seen as a bare minimum for hiring.
Sad thing is I understand a bit like I can read the code and know what it’s doing but I didn’t do hash map or at least do it enough to remember a damn thing on it
Lol. After I graduated and tried to get a job. I changed career fields and went to IT/Engineering. Software developer interviews are so garbage. Good luck!
@@gc1087 i was thinking of going into project management. i think its where my skills r best applied n i know im not gonna be a genius coder prob j average
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.
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.
If solving one problem for free for them would be annoying, imagine working for them making maybe tens of thousands while they potentially make billions off of your work, and you're not even allowed to work anywhere else
As an interviewer: This is 100% accurate. However, don't waste time coding the slow solution. It's fine to mention it, but if you know a faster solution go straight to that before coding.
Came for this comment. Put your best foot forward, I'm looking at you as a complete candidate who tries to solve problems the best way you know how. Much better than a fake crappy approach just because you know the "can you improve this?" question comes next.
While I agree with this, that was the interviewer's fault for asking him to code a brute force solution instead of asking for an optimal solution before he started coding.
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.
Glad to inform got 3 offers and played salary matching game. I got my expected salary but not landed in tier 1 companies. I will continue preparing leetcode and land in tier 1 company. My salary increased more than 30%(TC - 210K).
I’m terrified of the coding interview. I’ve always had horrible performance anxiety, once someone’s watching me my mind goes blank. During a practice coding interview with an instructor he had to remind me that for loops are a thing 😭
I was in a pricey bootcamp and didn't have much further to go with it. I wasn't enjoying it at all. Learned to hate coding when trying to make it a more serious career. Once I found out how the interview process worked and what to expect I was done - dropped out and went and changed careers again to something else I like better. Happy I did! Landed one of my other dream jobs.
@@Pulsed101 I hold certifications in personal training, health, coaching/CBT. I went into social work doing life coaching classes and case management. Feels great helping people again!
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!
I’m currently on my final exam for Java as we speak! I’m deciding to do a choose your own adventure game, but it’s a bit hard for me to make the user go from a separate choice to a preexisting choice. Definitely easier said than done though, eheheh…
I swear I thought I was watching myself here, I was literally asked this same question a few weeks ago during my last interview. My approach was pretty similar and I ended up throwing a hashmap at the problem as well. I was able to move on to the next round of interviews because of it, and then later on I eventually got the job.
@@jordan.j4064 Pretty much yeah. Before I got my first job I had a hard time with tech interviews too. I kept failing and failing them but with each failure I learned more about the areas I was weak in and focused in on that. Soon enough I was able to get more comfortable with interviews and I ended up managing to land my first job with a lot of effort. Honestly though, just keep sending out applications, keep pushing yourself to improve and learn from your mistakes, and soon enough you'll be able to make it through.
@@bigchungus6546 honestly it doesn't really matter. What really does matter though is actual experience. If you're still in school, shoot for an internship. If you've already graduated, start building out side projects and work on your interview skills.
Only FAANG does this. For Junior positions, smaller companies ask you more about logic, some questions about CS knowledge like polymorfism etc. They also ask you to solve real-life problems so they can see if you're willing to learn and if you actually ever wrote a line of code. Don't worry too much ;)
for junior engineers i recommend practicing easy - medium problems leetcode (they have filter for top interview questions) as you work on harder problems you will learn more neat techniques. don't wait till you graduate, especially if you're aiming for top companies, though if u aim for small companies I'd still recommend you practicing in case you change your mind (never a bad thing to keep options open).
I've been a software developer for 16 years. I've been through plenty of code interviews and I've almost never given the best solution. Know why? Because nothing I've done of any quality is done inside 45 minutes. I just don't stress the first pass. If they're looking for perfection after 45 minutes, they're just looking for people who probably already got the correct answer online beforehand.
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
Could you please help with materials or a guide on how to learn these things in their order of importance and according how I will need them to advance my learning. I just started out and have not being making enough progress because I don't have a streamlined learning pathway to teach myself all the necessary things I need to become a software engineer. Please kindly help with resources if you can, I can't afford college.
@@josephubi9096 Hey, sure. It really depends on where you're at currently and what you are trying to do within the field of computer science; whether it is web development, game development, data science And AI, or becoming a back end web developer. However regardless of what you want to do, having a good foundation is very important. So I'm order to learn the basics of how to program I would recommend learning python as it's quite beginner friendly, although personally my first programming language was C and looking back it was definitely a great foundation but extremely hard to pick up at first. So in order to learn the basics of programming with python I would recommend the course Python for Everybody (you can find it on Coursera, edX and even RUclips) because it will start off slowly introducing you to simple topics but by the end of it you will know how to use python to parse a web page and make requests to an external API. After you learn the basics of programming with python, I think you should switch gears and learn a bit of web development by learning html, css, and JavaScript. A good resource for that is freecodecamp.org or even the Odin project which you can find online. Once you do that you should have a good feel for the basics of programming. Reading computer science textbooks can also help too and then you can decide what you would like to build next. I hope this helps you. In fact, here is a link to a GitHub repository that gives an alternative line of courses for you to take: github.com/ossu/computer-science
@@nicholast Wave 4 of interviewing... Interviewer: "Wow, looks like its been 6 weeks since our first meeting. Unfortunately, at this point in time we will be moving forward with other candidates."
@@michaelaramis1210 the other day I interviewed a guy and he didn't even know how a regular array works and how writing to a variable happens under the hood. And he had a year of expirience as a software ingeneer. So if you know what the hash map is and able to apply it in suitable places, you are a better than many out there and have nothing to be ashamed of.
@@superdingo9741 i was refering that i felt dirty on using my hammer to nail every problem :P but i do get your point, it has taken many years for me to validate myself as a developer and still theres plenty of room to grow ive done cloud apps, mobile, desktop, architected backend and frontend software, lead small teams of developers... still to this day i dont feel that i could fit on a large company
I've been working as a programmer for nearly 10 years and I've never had an interview like this. It's an extremely broad field, it isn't all like this.
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.
@@clarisse603 Basically just data structure and algorithm plus something like dynamic programming ？CE major here too, and I only got to these during my second year cuz I didn't take useful APs 😭
I love how the guy just awkwardly walks away without further explanation, even though the person he was explaining to was clearly still confused. And he literally is walking to nowhere.
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.
The funny part is, for 90% of the use cases, you're doing it wrong. It's the same thing with security, don't reinvent the wheel, your wheel won't be as round, the stdlib of any language you're using has a much better sorting algorithm than you will be able to make (they actually use a combination and heuristics and can even run in parallel)
100%, if you are on your third or second year of your degree you probably are going to remember this better than somebody that got the degree 7 years ago and has 10 years of experience xD
well thats only for backend, as a FE, I never built a single API endpoints in company tasks lol, neither did I encounter and stuff like interview questions again in my years of career
So the trippiest thing is one year ago I watched this video when I was researching pursuing a career in coding, and now one year into learning to code I am slowly learning about Hash maps, and watching this video again, I actually, to an extent, understood what you were talking about!
@@placeholder_name321 no, hashmaps store keys and value pairs. Keys can be mostly anything, but in the interview he stored the complement integer as a key and the index as a value. You can look up keys in constant time. Regular expressions is used to find things in a certain format you specify. Regular expression do not store anything you found
this was actually a solution that was desired from me once: the best answer was to generate a lookup table beforehand, and just use that in the live code.
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Guess that's why you just learn to draw Mona Lisas as per usual for these types of interviews to prepare for fence painting jobs, like everyone else. Sad, but true for a lot in life.
@@folou9199 me rn. 99% leetcode + 1% cramming to remember: The details of my own significant side-projects, various role & language specific info, & how to actually talk to a new person while constantly switching between high-level general overviews & low-level explanations while being concise. ADHD has been good to me while I am actually writing code, but boy is it rough when interviewing & prepping for interviews... I also am afraid to mention I have it just in-case someone lowkey passes on me because of it.
Man, congratulations for your achievements!!! Only you know how really hard it was for you to get to be where you are now! 🙏🏽 God keep blessing you and your goals!
"Could you make it faster?" "I'm sure we could, let's discuss it during tomorrow's stand-up; I'm sure the team will have some input. After all, this won't go into production for 3 months, so we have lots of time to refine it."
@@onedumbsloth5029 I am not sure I can consider HTML as "programing". . . By definition it is but IDK. HTML seems to be fundamentally different than say Java, C# or something else. Would say it is like "Anyone can build a house, but not everyone can code a program to build the house".
@@do.xuantung No at this point it's almost a meme... It's like in the real world... "I built houses with a big crane", "I build houses with two small cranes and a crew to lay the bricks" and "I build houses out of lego"
Just a couple of hours ago I threw a hashmap at today's advent of code. Quickly checking if we've previously seen a certain value is pretty useful in many interview / competition style problems.
in school: 2+2 = 4 in exam: What is the mass of Sun? in coding interview: solve complex problems. in job: data entry 😅🤣😬😬😒😒 Edit: WOW so many likes! Thank you guys 😍🤩
I think i hate this most , I had a few interview when im pretty sure i answered like at least 90% right and they still didnt hire me and got back with no or a weird feedback. IF the feedback would be reasonable , like what you did wrong, what did you lack, it would be so much more constructive and understandable. I remember one company after the interview as feedback told me "my talents lay in other direction" Wtf lol. Should i start ice skating or something, even tough i was professionaly programming for 5 years already at the time. Screw them.
_*5 minutes later *_ After careful consideration of your impressive resume and interview performance, we have decided to make the difficult and gut wrenching decision to move forward with other candidates whose skills more closely align with the needs of this position at this time. We greatly appreciate your time and we hope that you continue to follow our posted job opportunities in the future.
tbh I would rather them fully vibe check me & read every single 'less than ideal' comment from the interviewer. like "Honestly, this guy uses the term 'ostensibly' & 'thus' far too frequently. I will quit if you hire him on my team" & being somewhat petty, is something I would prefer to corporate nice-speak. Oh btw for anyone who reads this & thinks "same": I have had good luck in getting real feedback by reaching out to interviewers via linkedin or github (note: not their @work emails), but I am careful to not be weird about it lol
learnt IT for 4 years... and I'm so happy I know all the concepts, algs, and ideas you were talking in the video but the thing is... I usually need to debug for a long time for a perfect running script considering detailed corner case lol....
As a developer at a small time company that doesn't do anything nearly complex enough to ever be asked stressful interview questions like this... I'm insanely curious what these companies actually have their devs doing on a day to day basis. lol
I am strongly against high pressure coding interviews because you end up losing a lot of good talent and personalities just because they couldn't come up with a solution on the fly in 10 minutes. I look for people who are excited to learn and passionate about their field. The rest will fall into place from there.
Same here my dude. A lot of people need to realize that this type of efficiency isn't often necessary and when it is you'll get a lot of time to make sure the real solution is decently planned out. That should give some comfort to people who feel like their hopes are dashed. There are plenty of business goals where the main goal is simply automating the task because for that application, computer time is cheap.
Generally not what they are asking during the coding portions of interviews. I was going for one job, a Ruby on Rails job with... I can't remember what they were doing, but it wasn't anything new or revolutionary. First interview went great and so it was on to the "coding challenge" which "will not be an arbitrary algorithm challenge." The challenge? Rotate a matrix 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Rails devs do not rotate matrices. They do not deal with binary trees. They do not build a brand new Set class. We have the stdlib and other gems for things like that. For some reason, though, the whole "here, have an obscenely complex code challenge that has nothing to do with your job, nor will you ever have to do anything remotely like it" coding challenge is the "in thing."
That's comforting. I'm pretty sure I just failed an interview where they asked more complex questions than this. After spending time and money to get a second bachelor's degree to change careers, I spent the evening thinking that maybe I'm just really bad at programming and will never be good enough at it.
When a bit of code executes a million times a second, performance problems actually start to matter. Going from O(n^2) to O(n) can mean huge cost savings.
It's another language. Java from what I can see. Also, other languages are nothing to be afraid of. If you know the base concepts of Python, other languages like Java probably won't take long to get used to. :)
@@FamiliarDraco that’s completely wrong, like everything you said 1. Java is a lot more complicated than python and 2. Learning another programming language is like learning another language you should always start with the one you want to end up using
@@jabjohn3784 No? Learning another language once you are profecient in one is like a 2 week struggle. If you cant get used to a new language within the same paradigm within a month at most then you clearly do not understand your current language.
Love the video...i just got a new software developer position. It just took 1 HR phone screen. Two code tests on a coding test websites. Three brutal technical interviews where I created 2 mobile apps and I finally got the position after a total of three weeks. I have a friend who is a nuclear physicist and it took a single 30 minute phone interview to get a position at a nuclear power plant. I do not know any other career field where the interviews are as tough as in software developing.
I had no idea what I was throwing myself into when I chose CS. Luckily, I'm really enjoying studying for interviews. It's a lot more fun than my classes at college. You could say that's either very nice or very sad, lmao
@@squarerootof-1307 going well! Got an internship last year and a return offer another internship for this year with a returning bonus. The grind for full time jobs starts this summer!
Year late but, is there alot of math in CS? I\m thinking about becoming a software engineer or some kind of programmer, personally I don't feel like it's alot of math included when I program but I don't use these big languages such as C or C#.
@@pev1293 yeah, more math than I expected. But it’s mostly discrete math, logic, proofs, etc not calculus or algebra and stuff. But be prepared for lots of probability, sets, graphs, etc etc
My record is a phone interview followed by the recruitment companies interview and after that, I had the real interview with the client... And I didn't get the job! :))))))
Jokes on you, next interview is a gauntlet with at least 4 other engineers. Prepare to have your entire evening consumed only for some rando in QA to not like the way you wrote a given in one of your unit tests and eliminate your application
I usually don't bother about it. I just keep looking and hope for a more practical engineers that ask real world scenarios on how im able to handle it and give a solution.
I am also self-taught but I've since gone back and am halfway to a BS in Computer Science. You can cheat some of the CS stuff by studying on Codility and Leetcode. This is how I learned about time and memory complexity. Also, feel free to go look up some of the CS courses at your local college, research what the textbooks are, buy a couple, and teach yourself what you would have learned in the course. Probably one of the most important basic CS classes is Data Structures-definitely worth reading a textbook if you're self-taught. At the end of the day, I'm glad I chose to go back to school to study Computer Science (I never would have taught myself Calculus or Linear Algebra-and the structure has been good for pushing me to learn). So, that's also worth considering. Btw, my community college system is actually really great and the classes are only $50/credits for residents (California).
@@bent3576 ha! That’s awesome! I did the exact same thing with my university. Looked up the courses and got the textbooks. Plus I took some classes from Microsoft, Google, and Udemy. Currently pursuing a few certs 👍🏻
Don't sweat it my dude. Despite what people are saying there are plenty of code jobs that don't require this sort of intensity, though that being said, they likely pay somewhat less.
@@daymi7300 Depends on the web development really. Once you start hitting scale, intuitive knowledge of optimal ways of doing things matters. O(N) starts being a big deal.
It´s a funny story of how I came up to this video: I fell asleep wearing headphones in my desk trying to find tutorials for PHP forms from strange Indian people and 30 minutes later I wake up to a random guy saying that he works at FazezonGogAPPlix lmao. Nice vid... now back to coding. P.D. new sub!
@@dereklee5939 I wasn't able to answer a question so I got rejected. But I feel like I did alright so I'm not sad or anything. Gonna keep looking for opportunities
I wouldn't give him a second interview because I said you can assume there will always be a solution but you wrote an Exception and told me what would happen in the event that there was no solution. You can't follow directions, not FAANG worthy XD
@@michallasan3695 it's like in my "software engineering interns be like" video (don't wanna spoil it, but you should check it out if you haven't already :))
@@taaihone6881 I'd put there different message, like: "shouldn't get here" and clarified to the interviewer this was added with the only intention to make the code compile.
this was actually based on a personal experience
@@AndrewCheetah no way!
The code looks like Java, do the questions in your area for Java Developers really look like this? Im from Poland, but I often aslo apply to international companies, and those mathematical problem solving seems a thing of the past here , assuming we are talkign about bussiness software. 10 years ago it could happen (i remember when Codility was very popular here, many problems were a variation on quicksort...) , but nowadays its usually just a lot of knowledge checking : some basic Java questions,.Java 8 constructs alwys, design patters, frameworks (Spring , hibernate etc.), webservices,SQL and no SQLdb , javascript, coding theory SOLID etc. , maybe they give you some code to review. I actually think its a better approach because that relates much more to what you will do at work with bussiness software. Unless you apply for games software or some niche science projects, I guess, but its rare with Java.
But as to the point, yeah, the mutistage interviews are really frustrating:). You tought you made it , but it turns out it was just the mid level boss:)
Did you pass the other interview 🙄
@@MillandeepSingh im pretty sure i passed because i got the optimal solution, but didn't get the offer 😥
Bombshell: they're not actually interviewing you, they're just stuck on a code problem and want a free solution! 🤣
haha i've seen startups give take-home projects that just look like work they need someone to do for free😂
lol, they need help solving two sum for important business reasons. nobody else has been able to solve it to date
XD
LOL
No shit this is actually kinda what one of the questions I was asked for my current position was - he basically just wanted my input on how I might go about solving a real problem he was working on, it was actually pretty neat
"Do you think you could make it faster?"
"Nah, I'm good"
“You’re hired!”
underrated comment lmaoo 🤣🤣
Your pfp fits ur comment perfectly 😂
Lmao
Me, a pragmatist: "get better hardware"
Don't forget the part where they say "Good, now we'll move on to a hard problem"
that would've been good
@@nicholast Teach me the ways.
:This is Fine meme
We made a pong game in Python using the Turtle and Freegames libraries. ruclips.net/video/QPKOBeNwRbk/видео.html
be like , let me find HARD one in the leetcode and this will be a problem for next interview
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
Edit: Got the job, worked in the company then switched to a company where I feel better
great, have fun making apps to make some jewish guy rich :-)
HOW DID IT GO
@@joonorganic Thank you, It went perfectly. Also, I had one more interview with another company and a hashmap saved me again :D
Update : I got an offer from both companies. Learn your hashmaps and good luck to everyone!
@@simonanikolova1719 AYY WE SO PROUD OF U
"That....should work?"- Every Programmer
Yeah, you go through every situation in your head and something still goes wrong.
99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs. Take one down patch it around, 437 little bugs in the code!
@@jeremysutherlin7565 99 bugs and a segmentation fault ain't one.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
We made a pong game in Python using the Turtle and Freegames libraries. ruclips.net/video/QPKOBeNwRbk/видео.html
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.
LOL good try tho
damn you should have
@@nisaerdagu00322 It's not very difficult to tell when people act like they don't know something. The interviewer is generally more concerned about the thought process and ability to solve a problem they don't already know the answer to.
Why would You do that though?
@@kekag yep. Theyre not testing memory. If you’re going to pretend you havent seen the problem (which is a good strategy) you cant just “have a revelation”. Sell the thought process. Write up the pseudocode for the naive approach and then say there’s definitely optimizations that can be made. Sit and think. Think aloud. Walk through logic that would lead to those “revelations”
Dude when the interview started I felt like I was the one being interviewed. I felt that fear in me
😳😳 coding interviews are so nerve wracking that they can be felt through a screen 😂
I share that feeling
@@nicholast your video just scared me for my future , I m gonna start my term in fall this year in computer science major
@@amaannii Don't be scared. There are other companies besides Google etc.
Cam??
I studied coding and struggled during the interviews. Now I’m a full time burger developer at McDonalds.
Oh god 🤣🤣
LMFAOO
And if you're stuck in an order, just throw a hash brown.
@@gyromatty691 haha lol
😭 i might reconsider my career FML ill pray for a miracle
Do I know programming? No.
Do I understand the jokes? No
Have I been marathoning all these videos and somehow loving them? Absolutely
glad you like them and hope you learned something from them haha :)
sneaker heads be like
i think interviewing candidate just based on algorithm solving is just stupid. In work 90% of employees will never encounter this. And things you want to test are untouched.
@@opatechnus That's a strange reply to the root comment.
Anyway, if it's a good interview, the algorithm skills aren't meant to be a reflection of practical work, but rather, it demonstrates fundamental skills that are required to do good programming in general. A typical coder shouldn't spend much time optimizing, but they should at least not write code that's absurdly inefficient, and avoiding those pitfalls should be so natural that there's never even a conversation about it. That's why these kinds of technical questions are seen as a bare minimum for hiring.
Sad thing is I understand a bit like I can read the code and know what it’s doing but I didn’t do hash map or at least do it enough to remember a damn thing on it
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.
feeling the same way lol !! it’s my first year and i’m watching all these
Same here haha
Lol. After I graduated and tried to get a job. I changed career fields and went to IT/Engineering. Software developer interviews are so garbage. Good luck!
Same 1st year cs here, i can barely comprehend the code lol,
@@gc1087 i was thinking of going into project management. i think its where my skills r best applied n i know im not gonna be a genius coder prob j average
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.
Have a good life then mate
What was in your technical interview?
And what's the name of a company?
Which role did you apply for?
Did u get fired right after the fake act
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.
Hire me then lol
Can I work for you?
I'm so glad to hear that XD
You’re awesome
**Gasp** cool companies like these exist?!?
I thought it would end like "Thanks for fixing our coding problem. Thanks, bye!"
that would've been good 😂
Exactly what I was thinking!
If solving one problem for free for them would be annoying, imagine working for them making maybe tens of thousands while they potentially make billions off of your work, and you're not even allowed to work anywhere else
I always imagine that’s how these go. You’re actually solving bug tickets for them in prod.
Wow so many likes! Ty guys hah :D
As an interviewer: This is 100% accurate. However, don't waste time coding the slow solution. It's fine to mention it, but if you know a faster solution go straight to that before coding.
nice
@@dhruvakhera5011 nice pfp
Came for this comment. Put your best foot forward, I'm looking at you as a complete candidate who tries to solve problems the best way you know how. Much better than a fake crappy approach just because you know the "can you improve this?" question comes next.
While I agree with this, that was the interviewer's fault for asking him to code a brute force solution instead of asking for an optimal solution before he started coding.
@@mdouet he never said brute force or slowest, the interviewer just asked for a solution
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.
Glad to inform got 3 offers and played salary matching game. I got my expected salary but not landed in tier 1 companies. I will continue preparing leetcode and land in tier 1 company. My salary increased more than 30%(TC - 210K).
@@personxyz1840 Congrats! So you already had some experience as a developer and was just switching companies?
@@Ryan-ul7dy Yes!! Lots of Experience I was out of job search market for long time.
@@personxyz1840 Hey could you please tell a little bit about what you said for the salary matching part
Happens to me as well, but I didn't look for any other company. After 1 company offered me a job, didnt bother to look for more. 😅
Throwing a hashmap at the problem when you're stuck is actually pretty good advice, it's a powerful structure that will save your ass many times.
facts
What is a hashmap?
@@titord6031 a collection of key-value entries, also known as just map or dictionary.
@@titord6031 hashmaps are like unordered sets in the mathematical world. Lookup times are O(1), but only unique key values are allowed.
But you have more data plus you need to hash everything right?
I’m literally watching this right before a coding interview.
May the power of the hash map be with me.
So, you did it?
u did it?
as a cs student, i need to know of you got the job
Ssssshhhhh guys, he's on his 69th interview. He doesn't know if he'll make it yet.
I’m having an tech interview in two days also, wish me good luck
I’m terrified of the coding interview. I’ve always had horrible performance anxiety, once someone’s watching me my mind goes blank. During a practice coding interview with an instructor he had to remind me that for loops are a thing 😭
I feel the same thing 😭
I was in a pricey bootcamp and didn't have much further to go with it. I wasn't enjoying it at all. Learned to hate coding when trying to make it a more serious career. Once I found out how the interview process worked and what to expect I was done - dropped out and went and changed careers again to something else I like better. Happy I did! Landed one of my other dream jobs.
Just practice with someone (who codes) watching you code. Practicing control of your anxiety and mind state is half the battle.
@@RocketVet What did you change too?
@@Pulsed101 I hold certifications in personal training, health, coaching/CBT. I went into social work doing life coaching classes and case management. Feels great helping people again!
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!
can you tell me how you started leetcoding... it actually makes no sense to me and I am always afraid to start
Me who just started to learn about for loops:
"I like your funny words magic man"
...what return new int[] {i, j} does...returns an array with... i and j? But what's that "{ }" :'D
@@kitcat2449 "i" and "j" are the elements in the array! the curly brackets just show that those are the elements
@@T355V thank you! I actually took java classes recently so now it makes sense, but I appreciate the clear answer 8)
@@kitcat2449 yeah no problem! glad you're taking classes haha~
I’m currently on my final exam for Java as we speak! I’m deciding to do a choose your own adventure game, but it’s a bit hard for me to make the user go from a separate choice to a preexisting choice. Definitely easier said than done though, eheheh…
I swear I thought I was watching myself here, I was literally asked this same question a few weeks ago during my last interview. My approach was pretty similar and I ended up throwing a hashmap at the problem as well. I was able to move on to the next round of interviews because of it, and then later on I eventually got the job.
wow congrats!! so funny how the stories are so similar 😂
Dude how did you make it through lol, im having a hard time passing the 1st tech interview, did you study some data structures beforehand?
@@jordan.j4064 Pretty much yeah. Before I got my first job I had a hard time with tech interviews too. I kept failing and failing them but with each failure I learned more about the areas I was weak in and focused in on that. Soon enough I was able to get more comfortable with interviews and I ended up managing to land my first job with a lot of effort. Honestly though, just keep sending out applications, keep pushing yourself to improve and learn from your mistakes, and soon enough you'll be able to make it through.
@@liechy does gpa matter?
@@bigchungus6546 honestly it doesn't really matter. What really does matter though is actual experience. If you're still in school, shoot for an internship. If you've already graduated, start building out side projects and work on your interview skills.
I know this is supposed to be for entertainment but as a CS student this just makes me wanna die and dread having to do an interview like this lmao
Bro I thought I was the only one 🤣😭
I'm only freshman and worries always filled me
Only FAANG does this. For Junior positions, smaller companies ask you more about logic, some questions about CS knowledge like polymorfism etc. They also ask you to solve real-life problems so they can see if you're willing to learn and if you actually ever wrote a line of code. Don't worry too much ;)
for junior engineers i recommend practicing easy - medium problems leetcode (they have filter for top interview questions) as you work on harder problems you will learn more neat techniques. don't wait till you graduate, especially if you're aiming for top companies, though if u aim for small companies I'd still recommend you practicing in case you change your mind (never a bad thing to keep options open).
@@aduhaneh1057 even though i already have experience as developer this kind of stuff will surely improve my skill. Thanks for the idea.
This was actually just helpful for me to have some different ways to look at this problem! Thank you!
why is youtube recommending this to so many people 4 months after i posted it??
Lol ...I once saw a 11 years old video in my recommendation
graduates bro
I just graduated and started my leetcode grind, and my RUclips feed become all cs videos and I got this video recommendation
You’d be shocked to see when YT recommended this to me….. 4 months from initial post…..? Easy peasy
I've been a software developer for 16 years. I've been through plenty of code interviews and I've almost never given the best solution. Know why? Because nothing I've done of any quality is done inside 45 minutes. I just don't stress the first pass. If they're looking for perfection after 45 minutes, they're just looking for people who probably already got the correct answer online beforehand.
they just wanna know if you've been grinding your leetcode 😂
I think I will just say that on my next interview, actually. Thanks!
@@marcusbighouse tell us if you got the job lol
Why did you quit the career?
God bless you, you seem to have a nice family.
I was expecting a joke of a video, but this was actually extremely helpful as a CS major.
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
me too, but I sure as heck cant converse comfortably like that XD
This is me now, I hope to be back in 6-9 months to see the progress that I will have
Give me 6months
Could you please help with materials or a guide on how to learn these things in their order of
importance and according how I will need them to advance my learning.
I just started out and have not being making enough progress because I don't have a streamlined
learning pathway to teach myself all the necessary things I need to become a software engineer.
Please kindly help with resources if you can, I can't afford college.
@@josephubi9096 Hey, sure. It really depends on where you're at currently and what you are trying to do within the field of computer science; whether it is web development, game development, data science And AI, or becoming a back end web developer.
However regardless of what you want to do, having a good foundation is very important. So I'm order to learn the basics of how to program I would recommend learning python as it's quite beginner friendly, although personally my first programming language was C and looking back it was definitely a great foundation but extremely hard to pick up at first. So in order to learn the basics of programming with python I would recommend the course Python for Everybody (you can find it on Coursera, edX and even RUclips) because it will start off slowly introducing you to simple topics but by the end of it you will know how to use python to parse a web page and make requests to an external API.
After you learn the basics of programming with python, I think you should switch gears and learn a bit of web development by learning html, css, and JavaScript. A good resource for that is freecodecamp.org or even the Odin project which you can find online. Once you do that you should have a good feel for the basics of programming. Reading computer science textbooks can also help too and then you can decide what you would like to build next. I hope this helps you.
In fact, here is a link to a GitHub repository that gives an alternative line of courses for you to take: github.com/ossu/computer-science
When you said "There's more??!!!! "
I felt that 😢
there's always more :(
@@nicholast Wave 4 of interviewing... Interviewer: "Wow, looks like its been 6 weeks since our first meeting. Unfortunately, at this point in time we will be moving forward with other candidates."
@@MegaOfficeHours I'd rather be a fish if I'm gonna get gutted like that 😂
@@GrinFlash007 I got a CompSci degree and quit looking for jobs after a few of these.
@@Egg-vv8de which part lol. Wave 4 of interviewing or giving up on finding a software job?
When you’re in your third year of being a computer science student and don’t understand a word being spoken🥲
Wait, im on my first and understood most of it without doing anything prior to uni
You must have not started with dsa
😳😳
Start doing problems NOW
Change majors lmao
Me pretending I know what he's talking about: "Ahh yes...The ol' indexing the corresponding indices for the core value of zero sum. Brilliant."
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave
lmao bold of them to ask you the literal first question on LeetCode
right... I wish code interview back in my days were this easy, I still got jobs, but it was never this easy
I came for a quick joke and ended up learning about hashmasps and having a Big Time Rush nostalgia trip. Sub.
love to hear it!
it was harder to come up with that 2nd solution than the hashmap solution
the other day i did a technicall interview, i felt ashamed to use a hashmap for both question, i thought i was being dirty
@@michaelaramis1210 the other day I interviewed a guy and he didn't even know how a regular array works and how writing to a variable happens under the hood. And he had a year of expirience as a software ingeneer. So if you know what the hash map is and able to apply it in suitable places, you are a better than many out there and have nothing to be ashamed of.
@American Hero yeah, heavily!
@@superdingo9741 i was refering that i felt dirty on using my hammer to nail every problem :P but i do get your point, it has taken many years for me to validate myself as a developer and still theres plenty of room to grow
ive done cloud apps, mobile, desktop, architected backend and frontend software, lead small teams of developers...
still to this day i dont feel that i could fit on a large company
@@superdingo9741 Wow that's reassuring 🤧
I’ve been debating about going into coding for a couple months now. Thank you for this u-turn 😂
nah u should try it
😂😂😂
No the u turn 😭😂
I've been working as a programmer for nearly 10 years and I've never had an interview like this. It's an extremely broad field, it isn't all like this.
@@Joe-fj6dj A little frontend, mostly backend. Why?
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.
I literally have no idea what he’s saying for this entire clip. 😂
me too
Just keep following the script
Same here....and im a 3rd year I.T student
First year Computer Engineering student here, and surprisingly I understood everything he said owo
@@clarisse603 Basically just data structure and algorithm plus something like dynamic programming ？CE major here too, and I only got to these during my second year cuz I didn't take useful APs 😭
That part where he didn't know what to do next and just kept saying "uh" over and over really hit home, lol.
I love how the guy just awkwardly walks away without further explanation, even though the person he was explaining to was clearly still confused. And he literally is walking to nowhere.
My name’s NINO
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.
The funny part is, for 90% of the use cases, you're doing it wrong. It's the same thing with security, don't reinvent the wheel, your wheel won't be as round, the stdlib of any language you're using has a much better sorting algorithm than you will be able to make (they actually use a combination and heuristics and can even run in parallel)
Yes sir, I think you're right.
yeah but in germany its hard to get a job without a degree, in the US you can at least do that with one bootcamp
hello sir can i talk with you
100%, if you are on your third or second year of your degree you probably are going to remember this better than somebody that got the degree 7 years ago and has 10 years of experience xD
The joke is. After this you will never ever do anything like this again. Because most of the time you will develop some restAPI.
well thats only for backend, as a FE, I never built a single API endpoints in company tasks lol, neither did I encounter and stuff like interview questions again in my years of career
*studies data structures + algorithms for months*
gets paid to center divs
sorry but your div fucked up the whole site
bruh moment
@@nicholast As a CSS specialist, I've been centering div's for 20 years. Except these days the styles are declared somewhere in a HashMap.
Interviewer - MAKE A TIME MACHINE
ME- What ?
Interviewer - Too late, *Rejected*
No idea what anything you said meant but I was very invested into the video. 10/10 acting, would recommend
Lmaooo thank you Jason :)
So the trippiest thing is one year ago I watched this video when I was researching pursuing a career in coding, and now one year into learning to code I am slowly learning about Hash maps, and watching this video again, I actually, to an extent, understood what you were talking about!
This hit me on a cellular level. LOL
LOOL
This is what I've been saying. This guy doesn't miss bro
I'm currently studying for my exam in algorithms (mostly time complexity). Thank you for giving me shortcuts with this video.
5k likes for part 2 👀
Throw hashmap at the problem sometimes really work lol. Can't wait for next tip!
I'm beginning my coding journey and watching this scared the crap out of me.
Done
I absolutely didn't understand anything all of you were saying, so I guess I'll never get hired as a coder.
As an average person, idk what he’s talking about
This advice of throwing a hash map solved my problem today. Great advice.
Hashmaps really do save you though lmao
Facts
Yeah, basically a time-memory trade-off.
@@prabeshhumagain1008 is a hashmap like a Regular Expression
@@placeholder_name321 no, hashmaps store keys and value pairs. Keys can be mostly anything, but in the interview he stored the complement integer as a key and the index as a value. You can look up keys in constant time. Regular expressions is used to find things in a certain format you specify. Regular expression do not store anything you found
"Just throw a hashmap at the problem"
My algos professor: "Nope find an O(1) solution"
this was actually a solution that was desired from me once: the best answer was to generate a lookup table beforehand, and just use that in the live code.
“Fuckin uh… just take the first two and hope that its right”
use a hashmap, lol key = input, value = pre-programmed desired output.
I had no idea what you were talking about the whole time, but now I wanna learn
Fun Fact:- " _This guy just cracked the formula of making humour out of no humour_ " 😂😂
😎 😎
You mean _cracked the code_ ?
This is what you call kafkaesque, when the industry is so absurd that, that in itself is absurd
My friends, search for your life purpose, why are we here?? I advise you to watch this series 👇 as a beginning to know the purpose of your existence in this life--
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Russian comedians: am I a joke to you?
Perfect example of programming interview hell. "Draw me the Mona Lisa" they said, then you get the job and end up painting a fence.
Guess that's why you just learn to draw Mona Lisas as per usual for these types of interviews to prepare for fence painting jobs, like everyone else. Sad, but true for a lot in life.
@@folou9199 me rn.
99% leetcode + 1% cramming to remember:
The details of my own significant side-projects, various role & language specific info, & how to actually talk to a new person while constantly switching between high-level general overviews & low-level explanations while being concise.
ADHD has been good to me while I am actually writing code, but boy is it rough when interviewing & prepping for interviews... I also am afraid to mention I have it just in-case someone lowkey passes on me because of it.
You're hilarious!
In China we call it "building a rocket in the interview and twisting screws in the job" lol
I know this is a comedy video but I have an interview in a few days and this actually helped me study for it. Thanks!
Watching this right before a coding interview, and lemme say… this is FACTS
How am I only seeing this 3 years later.. Love your content! Tech interviews always be a struggle
Man, congratulations for your achievements!!! Only you know how really hard it was for you to get to be where you are now! 🙏🏽 God keep blessing you and your goals!
thanks Jaques :)
And from all us coders out there, here is the real answer: "No problem sir, let me just google that for you!"
😂😂😂
and Stackoverflow xD
"Could you make it faster?"
"I'm sure we could, let's discuss it during tomorrow's stand-up; I'm sure the team will have some input. After all, this won't go into production for 3 months, so we have lots of time to refine it."
“That would be a cross-functional effort requiring 10 engineers and 4 weeks. Let’s keep it in the backlog for now”
This is way of showing people how tech interview works with kind of melodrama is brilliant idea wise, appreciated 👏
"Yup, that sounds like a good start"
"That's my entire code"
"Bruh"
"Throw a hashmap at the problem" is my standard first approach to any problem involving arrays. Now I know I'm not just weird
Honestly, this is a great learning experience for a newcomer like myself! Love the videos! Keep up the Amazing Work!
glad to hear it, thank you :)
felt nervous and amused, great video :)
To someone who just finished making the snake game, it's too much
Don’t give up.
Brooooo i just got done with html training😂
@@onedumbsloth5029 I am not sure I can consider HTML as "programing". . . By definition it is but IDK. HTML seems to be fundamentally different than say Java, C# or something else. Would say it is like "Anyone can build a house, but not everyone can code a program to build the house".
@Nicolás Agustín you and the guy above must be fun at parties
@@do.xuantung No at this point it's almost a meme... It's like in the real world... "I built houses with a big crane", "I build houses with two small cranes and a crew to lay the bricks" and "I build houses out of lego"
Interviewer: And... you can just assume that the solution always exists.
Nick: I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
Just a couple of hours ago I threw a hashmap at today's advent of code. Quickly checking if we've previously seen a certain value is pretty useful in many interview / competition style problems.
The hash map solution is actually pretty good, how nice for once.
in school: 2+2 = 4
in exam: What is the mass of Sun?
in coding interview: solve complex problems.
in job: data entry 😅🤣😬😬😒😒
Edit: WOW so many likes!
Thank you guys 😍🤩
😂😂
Seriously 😂
@Rohit Salunke
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@Rohit Salunke
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@Rohit Salunke
Ok lol
This video was very interesting, I like his reaction at the ending when he heard he had a next interview
he is scared
Yeah and after the second interview they just ghost you out and you never really get to know why. Been there so many times
f in the chat
@Elon Lothbrok, this one hits hard lmao
Really? F**k. Even after learning so many years of coding we might fail at this point 😑.
I think i hate this most , I had a few interview when im pretty sure i answered like at least 90% right and they still didnt hire me and got back with no or a weird feedback. IF the feedback would be reasonable , like what you did wrong, what did you lack, it would be so much more constructive and understandable. I remember one company after the interview as feedback told me "my talents lay in other direction" Wtf lol. Should i start ice skating or something, even tough i was professionaly programming for 5 years already at the time. Screw them.
I got ghosted because they had intended to give the job to someone else within the company and didn't tell the recruiters.
It was very nice to watch an interview in a funny manner at the same time gaining the knowledge on how to get on if we struck in an interview
I screamed at "I can't even invert a binary tree or invert a linked list." It's too relatable...
_*5 minutes later *_
After careful consideration of your impressive resume and interview performance, we have decided to make the difficult and gut wrenching decision to move forward with other candidates whose skills more closely align with the needs of this position at this time. We greatly appreciate your time and we hope that you continue to follow our posted job opportunities in the future.
Someone's been rejected a few times before
like this
tbh I would rather them fully vibe check me & read every single 'less than ideal' comment from the interviewer.
like "Honestly, this guy uses the term 'ostensibly' & 'thus' far too frequently. I will quit if you hire him on my team" & being somewhat petty, is something I would prefer to corporate nice-speak.
Oh btw for anyone who reads this & thinks "same": I have had good luck in getting real feedback by reaching out to interviewers via linkedin or github (note: not their @work emails), but I am careful to not be weird about it lol
learnt IT for 4 years... and I'm so happy I know all the concepts, algs, and ideas you were talking in the video but the thing is... I usually need to debug for a long time for a perfect running script considering detailed corner case lol....
My answer to any question that starts geeking out like that, is that I will google it.
That moment when I had to pause the video for quite a long time to understand the initial problem.
As a developer at a small time company that doesn't do anything nearly complex enough to ever be asked stressful interview questions like this... I'm insanely curious what these companies actually have their devs doing on a day to day basis. lol
I am strongly against high pressure coding interviews because you end up losing a lot of good talent and personalities just because they couldn't come up with a solution on the fly in 10 minutes. I look for people who are excited to learn and passionate about their field. The rest will fall into place from there.
Same here my dude. A lot of people need to realize that this type of efficiency isn't often necessary and when it is you'll get a lot of time to make sure the real solution is decently planned out.
That should give some comfort to people who feel like their hopes are dashed.
There are plenty of business goals where the main goal is simply automating the task because for that application, computer time is cheap.
Generally not what they are asking during the coding portions of interviews.
I was going for one job, a Ruby on Rails job with... I can't remember what they were doing, but it wasn't anything new or revolutionary. First interview went great and so it was on to the "coding challenge" which "will not be an arbitrary algorithm challenge." The challenge? Rotate a matrix 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
Rails devs do not rotate matrices. They do not deal with binary trees. They do not build a brand new Set class. We have the stdlib and other gems for things like that. For some reason, though, the whole "here, have an obscenely complex code challenge that has nothing to do with your job, nor will you ever have to do anything remotely like it" coding challenge is the "in thing."
That's comforting. I'm pretty sure I just failed an interview where they asked more complex questions than this. After spending time and money to get a second bachelor's degree to change careers, I spent the evening thinking that maybe I'm just really bad at programming and will never be good enough at it.
When a bit of code executes a million times a second, performance problems actually start to matter. Going from O(n^2) to O(n) can mean huge cost savings.
Me after learning the basics and OOP for Python: I guess I'm ready for at least an internship.
Me after watching this video: What???????????
It's another language. Java from what I can see.
Also, other languages are nothing to be afraid of. If you know the base concepts of Python, other languages like Java probably won't take long to get used to. :)
learn data structure and algorithm, dynamic programming
@@FamiliarDraco that’s completely wrong, like everything you said 1. Java is a lot more complicated than python and 2. Learning another programming language is like learning another language you should always start with the one you want to end up using
@@jabjohn3784 No? Learning another language once you are profecient in one is like a 2 week struggle. If you cant get used to a new language within the same paradigm within a month at most then you clearly do not understand your current language.
@@perhapsso1909 Ok I’ll agree on that basis but Java is a lot more complicated than python
Love the video...i just got a new software developer position. It just took 1 HR phone screen. Two code tests on a coding test websites. Three brutal technical interviews where I created 2 mobile apps and I finally got the position after a total of three weeks. I have a friend who is a nuclear physicist and it took a single 30 minute phone interview to get a position at a nuclear power plant. I do not know any other career field where the interviews are as tough as in software developing.
I had no idea what I was throwing myself into when I chose CS. Luckily, I'm really enjoying studying for interviews. It's a lot more fun than my classes at college. You could say that's either very nice or very sad, lmao
Been a year since you commented, but how's it going?
@@squarerootof-1307 going well! Got an internship last year and a return offer another internship for this year with a returning bonus. The grind for full time jobs starts this summer!
Year late but, is there alot of math in CS? I\m thinking about becoming a software engineer or some kind of programmer, personally I don't feel like it's alot of math included when I program but I don't use these big languages such as C or C#.
@@pev1293 yeah, more math than I expected. But it’s mostly discrete math, logic, proofs, etc not calculus or algebra and stuff. But be prepared for lots of probability, sets, graphs, etc etc
The end part of having a second round of interview is so relatable and funny🤣
My record is a phone interview followed by the recruitment companies interview and after that, I had the real interview with the client... And I didn't get the job! :))))))
@@Jokamutta 😅
@@Jokamutta 😭
I thought this was going to be a joke but it was an actual interview
Wow can't believe you are actually going through the real solutions! Nice!
Man, as another coding interviews' victim, you really made me laugh :D. Now to next interview ...
glad you enjoyed :)
Jokes on you, next interview is a gauntlet with at least 4 other engineers. Prepare to have your entire evening consumed only for some rando in QA to not like the way you wrote a given in one of your unit tests and eliminate your application
I usually don't bother about it. I just keep looking and hope for a more practical engineers that ask real world scenarios on how im able to handle it and give a solution.
😳😳
Unit tests?
@@donventura2116 Oh yeah.
Well that's encouraging 😂
I’m self taught, so I don’t know all the college vocabulary, but I totally understood all that. Feeling better about my progress.
:)
I am also self-taught but I've since gone back and am halfway to a BS in Computer Science. You can cheat some of the CS stuff by studying on Codility and Leetcode. This is how I learned about time and memory complexity. Also, feel free to go look up some of the CS courses at your local college, research what the textbooks are, buy a couple, and teach yourself what you would have learned in the course. Probably one of the most important basic CS classes is Data Structures-definitely worth reading a textbook if you're self-taught.
At the end of the day, I'm glad I chose to go back to school to study Computer Science (I never would have taught myself Calculus or Linear Algebra-and the structure has been good for pushing me to learn). So, that's also worth considering. Btw, my community college system is actually really great and the classes are only $50/credits for residents (California).
@@bent3576 ha! That’s awesome! I did the exact same thing with my university. Looked up the courses and got the textbooks. Plus I took some classes from Microsoft, Google, and Udemy.
Currently pursuing a few certs 👍🏻
inspiring
Keep going bruh 💪
3:09 that repetitive sentence is sooo realistic
I’m literally a nursing major, idk how I ended up here or what you’re saying but it sounds about right 😂
You like it?😭
I feel you, I study biochemistry and this sounds foreign to me.
hahahahahahha
I’m taking a veterinarian course how did we get here
HAHAHA lol, there's one thing you could understand about us just study ABOUT US HAHA
"If you ever get stuck, throw a HashMap at the problem" lmao
Lol, I had this exact same inteview. Even have that friend uses a hashmap for every question. 😂
hahaha no way
Just watching this video at the beginning of learning my first language. Going to watch again in 6 months to see how much more I understand.
Godamn, I’ll never get a programming job if this is what interviews are like.
Don't sweat it my dude. Despite what people are saying there are plenty of code jobs that don't require this sort of intensity, though that being said, they likely pay somewhat less.
@@BeefIngotlike web development?
@@daymi7300 Depends on the web development really. Once you start hitting scale, intuitive knowledge of optimal ways of doing things matters. O(N) starts being a big deal.
@@daymi7300This kind of interview is usually done for any kind of job nowadays, it doesn’t matter that is has nothing to do with the actual role
@@josuer4675 thanks
accurate programming movie be like:
It´s a funny story of how I came up to this video: I fell asleep wearing headphones in my desk trying to find tutorials for PHP forms from strange Indian people and 30 minutes later I wake up to a random guy saying that he works at FazezonGogAPPlix lmao. Nice vid... now back to coding. P.D. new sub!
haha thats a funny story
I'm literally watching this the night before my technical interview lol I will make sure to use hash maps tomorrow, wish me luck guys
Is everything ok ?
@@dereklee5939 I wasn't able to answer a question so I got rejected. But I feel like I did alright so I'm not sad or anything. Gonna keep looking for opportunities
@@williamxiang5619 goodluck brother
I wouldn't give him a second interview because I said you can assume there will always be a solution but you wrote an Exception and told me what would happen in the event that there was no solution. You can't follow directions, not FAANG worthy XD
you can never be too safe 👀
If some manager says it will not happen, it does not mean that it will not happen.
@@michallasan3695 it's like in my "software engineering interns be like" video (don't wanna spoil it, but you should check it out if you haven't already :))
What would you have done instead? There has to be a return or a throw, otherwise his code won't compile smartass.
@@taaihone6881 I'd put there different message, like: "shouldn't get here" and clarified to the interviewer this was added with the only intention to make the code compile.
As a 1st year IT student i'm already crying...
0:41 obligatory NPC walk towards wall and de-spawns after the scene ends
The wall is actually a paid actor
"Wait... There's more?"
Hahahahahahahahaha... You have unlocked the true form of the final boss.