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Hello, I’m from HK. Thank you for sharing 😢 your advice is super helpful and motivated me because I recently failed the onsite interview for a bank that has Google-style interview process. I acknowledge my weaknesses, and I understand that I am not as smart as those Googlers or those from the big tech, there are some areas I can further improve myself, and I will keep trying and improve myself, hopefully, I can do it better next time and land to my dream job in the future.

I really like the TODO comment part for null checks, I’ve gotten caught up on that a number of times, dope nugget

Software development became something that is not inherent to just problem solving skills but using the tools that we have right know, and it's totally fine if you're bad asnwering leetcode or hackeerank like questions, because unless you're preparing for competitive coding for a tournament or things like that, it's likely that you're not gonna encounter a leetcode like problem to solve in your daily job, for years. If you're a java developer and are asked to sort a list with bucles instead of just doing Collections.sort(list) I think you're not applying to the right job, even if this is google, I mean, it's good to know the "foundations" but people have to understand that it's becoming more important to use the tools instead of how thing works behind the scenes on a Collection.sort function, if you have to optimize your code just then worry about it. Remember that our main occupation is to build software, not to write code, and someday, we like it or not, building will require little coding and more on how use the tools.

No u just want to gatekeep all the free food 😡😡

yeah. cover the screen.

The level of stupidity here is absurd. I wonder in how many instances does leetcode skills actually help you better in your job. Leetcode as a screening criteria is no way a bar to assess software engineering chops of a candidate.

I really enjoyed the blue yeti microphone and I was doing Acapella without the instrument.

Why do they offer people with experience less than a new grad?

I learned so much from you. Keep doing you.

Your mindset is clear about what you want to do and what you love, which is a very good thing. If you have not gotten success on a short-term basis, you would not regret it. Good luck.

I have been programming for 20 years... I have never needed to reverse a linked list.

This is probably why some of these companies are starting to struggle. Interviews like this deter people who are super experienced. They will get junior and maybe 5-7 year senior developers. However, a 20 year veteran is not going to spend time learning useless leetcode problems so he can have a chance at getting a job at Google or any other company for that matter. If someone started the interview with, "reverse a linked list", I'd be like...Actually, I am not interested in the job, and hang up. If you are going to decide whether or not to hire me based on something I would never do at the job, etc. Good luck to you. I would be down for you to look at my resume and ask some technical questions regarding my projects etc. Systems design etc. Any dufus can learn how to look up how to reverse a linked list in any language and figure it out. I actually have had several recruiters from Google reach out to me. My first question is, at my level am I going to have to go through several rounds of interviews where I have to write simple algorithms? The answer was "yes" and I told them I wasn't interested. My current company didn't even ask me to code at all, we simply talked about my background and I explained to them in detail about the projects I worked on and how I solved some of the problems that the company had. I can kind of understand this type of interview for a junior engineer out of college. However, being in the industry for 5+ years, these kind of interviews are mostly just jumping through hoops and shrinking the application pool. I think it is just pure laziness on the company's part.

linked list is a horrible data structure. Nobody uses it. The interviews are very stressful - majority of people simply are not performing well under stress. It doesn't mean they would be bad engineers. I just look at this as at the lottery - apply to 100 positions and you definitely will succeed

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I'm not the biggest fan of these "leet code" type questions but it's a great way to weed out 95% of people who won't bother to study for it. It's like a degree really.

I swear this guy is a master at writing cringe LinkedIn posts but making trash TH-cam vids like this. Holy crap, what a dumb idea to pass out mouthwash. You need it more than them because you don’t look like you could rizz up anybody.

Thanks for this. Hit just when I needed it

The moment I saw that you were speaking into the blue yeti front facing, I know this guy has his stuff together and prob knows what he is talking about.

I came to answer the thumbnail, but I see others beat me to it. I'm thinking it might have been clickbait :p

I think you are depressed, my dad passed away with cancer last year. It turned my head in a different direction. I dont think about inventing the next thing, building the next biggest thing. Rather, I value freedom flexibility, time with family.

Referrals definitely help. Now that almost every human being can fake a resumé and a portfolio with ChatGPT, recruiters are prioritizing those who apply with referrals.

No mention of "WHERE" to learn ?

uhhh......that's simple enough, starting at first, stored as "i" (our temp holding variable), swap prev/next values of 'i' object, then set 'i' to 'prev' (which was 'next' before you swapped it) and loop until 'i' is null and break out. then swap first/last variables, done. O(n) speed. failsafe questions for interview would be to ask if certain error checks are to be performed within the function base or if it will be done separately by a different process....error possibilities are bad pointers (simple 'try' capture with memory test on pointer, speed reduced per n unit by c1), circular listing (a 2-to-1 tracer would reduce speed further by an additional O(n) per direction), disconnected/broken/botched filing in the pointers (another speed reduction by O(n) per direction). Other possibilities are whether you have a begin/end train to flip rather than the entire list, which can be far more fun to play with. Yeah, problem is, as much as I could solve any problem extremely quickly, I don't usually work well with others or speak my problems aloud. I'll stick to indie game development for now, but it is still fun to do programming puzzles like these.

I only have to study DSA only for interivew when changing job. It's completely useless

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Hey, at least you’re not Gen Alpha

Erm what the sogma

F Google and all the rest. They make aholes out of people

asking for algoritms is beyond dumb, the only people who memorize that shit are either studying for an interview, or are not the kind of person you'd want as an colleague cos they have most of the letter combinations.

Thought I was the only one using “sabbatical” to say I was laid off 😂

This is good

You're very underrated

Pretty much all the experience you got at amazon was useful. You were coding in the beginning and then avoided that work for operations. Operations is still useful for on-call and figuring out production issues so that’s not a career killer. Then you got more dev work after. So really there was nothing wrong with your experience.

Why is this me 😢😅

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Why do you kinda sound like Ryan renolds

Hey, thanks for sharing this story, glad I stumbled on your channel! I have a couple of questions for you though. When reflecting on your dates, how come you didn’t try to work on diversifying your personality outside of work? I think the reactions you got from your dates is an indicator that you need to other things going on in your life outside of your job that will make you a more datable person lol. As someone who has lived in Seattle for four years, also in tech, I’ve worked hard at exploring myself through different hobbies and activities, and that’s definitely helped me connect with other people way better and just help me become a more well rounded person. Likewise, with making friends. Did you try to go to any meet ups in Seattle to make friends? If all you do is work remotely and stay at home, you won’t make friends.

Give yourself some more time ... new growth things around the corner.

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Claude Sonnet 3.5, given my link list, write a function to reverse a linked list. And DONE!

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the switch thing was down tho

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By grammar consistency tho it doesnt make sense. HexaGON PentaGON OregIN

I have been a software engineer for 10+ years. I have never coded, let alone reversed, a linked list. Any uses of linked lists like stacks and queues were always hidden behind abstractions.

Thank you for sharing your story, bless you and best wishes to you and your family ❤

Interview: 10/10 Job: 2/10 Retiring: 12/10

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