How To Pass Coding Interviews Like the Top 1%
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- If you want to be a software engineer at Google, you will be surprised that less than 1% of all candidates would actually get an offer. Which is harder than getting into harvard.
Now most people would think all you need to do to get in is to solve a ridiculous amount of leetcode problems.
But if you look at all of these posts online, even after doing 300, 400, or 500 leetcode questions, they’re still failing interviews.
This used to work honestly, however now most interviews want you to solve 2 medium leet code questions within 40 minutes. It's very hard to do all this and write clean code that works for all test cases with optimal solution within 20 minutes per question.
Or maybe my typing/speaking/thinking speed is lower. Idk.
They want you to do so many questions that you can clap anything within 10 minutes
I generally do not comment on videos. You sir, explained things in a purely golden manner. Thanks a lot :)
To summarize, explain and talk about your code/solution in a confident tone.
I really like the TODO comment part for null checks, I’ve gotten caught up on that a number of times, dope nugget
Thanks! I've been doing a lot of studying, and there were actually a couple new techniques in here that were good to be reminded of. Ignore the negative comments - or perhaps addressing people's concerns could be part of other video topics!
Best explanation I've seen, thanks!!!
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.
This is a great video, thank you I have an interview in a few hours.
People comes in different personality and mind. I believe as long as people can solve problem Google shouldn't act like it. Even in work, when solving problems generally we don't communicate. Communication is mostly done during requirements or meetings anyway. Laslly, interview shouldn't just seek for leetcode solvers. Many experienced people, I bet can't solve leetcode problem in 45 mins.
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A lot of the Google, FB coding interviewers act like a robot … tired of interviewing with them …
Tbh their higher ups are awesome I still remember the time when they let you to contact their existing engineer to know what’s like and it’s a good professional life then you get to interview with multiple teams, it’s awesome back then, now yeah it is what it is
Yea cool after these you used all your time and leaves the interview with a non-optimal solution. And obviously, you failed the interview
Doubtful it's 1% given Google's Size. You got a source?
Google it.
@@riyanshbiswas Haha nice one.
Unfortunately, in most case it doen't work. When I try to ask question before writing a code, most interviewer will find this as a bad sing. Once,I was told 'that easy start write a code'. Even if I ask 3-5 min, make a plan in silence, I will be asked to write a code right away.
Yea people are really making bullshit videos to guide you how to pass coding interviews. The fact is, these interviews are designed to make most of you fail. Assuming a shortcut or simple approach for the interview is already wrong at the very beginning.
I doubt this is the norm everywhere, as long as you communicate continuously it should be fine
Sound advice
Just stop applying there. Guess who's hiring standards will change overnight? Preparing for 80+ hours for an interview is a pretty ridiculous standard.
I wish it was 80 hours 😂😂. I’ve probably put in 200+ hours (130ish problems done a lot of them had to spend more than 1 hour doing and understanding and redoing and reunderstanding) and I’m just starting to be able to solve a wide variety of problems.
@EquinoXReZ i don't consider leetcode in that timeline, since it applies to all interviews. But yeah, I've done 300ish of them. 200 hours is insane, too.
@@Dan-codes oh I see you went for one company yeah that’s insane
@EquinoXReZ yep! I applied at a few but have only had one loop so far. Pending results I'll make a video on it.
@ best of luck!