The test is that the candidate must say "let's write some neetcode today" and they automatically pass

​@@NeetCodeIO keeping that in mind for brownie points

@@NeetCodeIO Or 'Do you atleast agree with me...." while whiteboarding a question.

That could be basically impossible back when he was in Google because the face reveal happened after he had left. Unless it was one of his biggest fans to be able to recognize his voice from that one youchewb channel

@@one_step_sideways but his voice is so unique

if you can't write a loop when nevrous its more than fine taht you get rejected. Memorizing some pattern that will never be useful (at least not as is) should never help you get anything.

@@lucaxtshotting2378 ok so the day job involves something that makes you nervous all day? If that's the requirement then sure, put that in your job ad as well so people know what kind of shit place they'll be working at. Rarely can you find a person who can do stuff correctly when nervous. Trick is to NOT make the candidate nervous. I don't know where you're going with the 2nd point but yes I'd agree with that. But then I see your 1st point and I'm lost.

Holy shit. I'm self-taught, and even I could have answered that warmup.

You literally just mean write the basic for loop to add the numbers and divide at the end right? That took them 15 minutes? How?

@@Yusuf-sy6rb he prolly capping

cap

@@Yusuf-sy6rb not even sum(arr) // len(arr) (if I remember correctly)

I agree. I would guarantee those senior devs will trip too if asked the same question and their jobs depended on it

Most likely he was randomly assigned to prevent networking and patting each other on the back to gain an unfair advantage during hiring. Also, he was likely able to interview candidates because he had already become a middle dev after 6 months of work. Middle devs hire junior devs, that's how it usually is.

Didn’t he work there for like 6 months why would they have someone with no experience interview others?

@@tarasaurus24 Googlers within cloud only need 3 months of tenure to undergo interview training then start interviewing others. Other PA's need 6 months. Also L3 devs (entry level) can interview L4 candidates.

Although I don’t like how tech interviews are almost always LC interrogation nowadays, getting rid of them will mean companies are gonna hire a lot of people who can’t code but know how to fake resume😂

I'm happy with coding assignments. Coding interviews are too much stress.

We don't have the computing power to run a spaghetti restaurant like that yet

Interviews are fine the way they are as long as you don't get asked a question you will never implement ever again. They mostly try to see if you can think like what the algorithm requires when needed in the future. For example: our professor taught us how to fine digits of a number with palindrome numbers as well as calculating exponents without importing a new library/header or using a built-in function then asked a question during our midterm to utilize all that to create loop where you enter the starting and ending point and then find all the Armstrong Numbers in that range and output them all. Nobody got it right and pretty much just complained about how they will never use that specific algorithm even though we were all taught the bits and pieces of the algorithm one by one. All we had to do was to put them all together. It wasn't anything we haven't learned.

@@xTriplexSit depends on the company, then you wilk know what type of data structures and algorithms they're will use often. Even the primary language. One person cant know all of the algorithm and know the language inside and outside of it. If I apply to a game developer job, they're expected me to know a lot of pathfinding algorithms compared to Faang. Usually C# is in the industry and they're want to see a portfolio or a game was very successful in the marketing. God bless me on a good easy leetcode problems on interview days. When comes to those big tech companies then you really don't have no any ideas what their primary projects are based on. Most people who get a job in Google will have no idea what they're going to do inside like Neetcode experience. Google can run by itself without people. Employees are sucking on the ads money like mosquito.

Well you could also say you are used to Copilot..

It's because up until covid most coding interviews were in person on whiteboard. Prior to getting hired at a FAANG I practiced writing code in Google docs so that I could get used to not having all the bells and whistles of an IDE

If the interview is on a whiteboard, do they expect things like getting function names right (think set.add vs list.append in Python) or would they accept pseudo code?

He didn't say they don't know how to write a for loop lol also CV has nothing to do with the video context. Get off your high horse.

@@lottexy 1:30 There you go ~ Also, Grandpa, in the Internet world, people don't take the literal meaning word for word. We might use sarcasm or analogy, or exaggerate things a bit. Just as saying "get off your high horse" does not necessarily mean telling others to actually jump off a 2 metre high horse. Often used in British conversation, comedy and Twitter. Cheers!

@@lottexy bro is probably chinese, there's a reason why youtube is banned in china because they are arrogant af

@@edwardcheng8974 He said people make small errors and be like "1 off" meaning they know how to write loops, if statements etc but often forget about edge cases, that's what he's saying and you're misinterpreting that as "can't write a loop". Also CV has nothing to do with this, just FYI. Take care.

@@lottexy Man this guy literally takes literal meaning literally. Must be German 🤣🤣🤣 Just don't know why you so triggered about the CV thingy, no sarcasm allowed?

Depends on what you mean by competitive programming. Being good at DSA I'd say is necessary.

@@BRabbid like CP profiles, like good 4* or 5* rating

@@GuruPrasadShukla nah having a profile at comp programming sites is definitely not necessary. Most google employees aren't competitive programmers.

@@BRabbid bro I recently got rejection email from Google even though i applied via referral this time and ensured that my skills align with the job description, maybe there's ton of competition here at India

@@GuruPrasadShukla Big tech is harder to get into since the mass layoffs, a lot of the FAANG companies didn't even tell their summer interns if they have a return offer yet so don't take it personally dude, times are hard. Use this as an opportunity to improve your skills so when times get better you'll be ready.