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10/10 for the intro lmao

Hey NeetCode, loved the video and thanks for the insights. I do have to disagree with you on one thing though - If there's anyone who does deserve nice employment, it's gotta be you, mate. You've done so much for the community and I'm sure you've transformed so many people's lives!

As a Google senior engineer and follower of the channel I was really interested in your opinion. I guess this will come with time but I'm very interested in your opinions on design docs and perf culture in the future. Anyways regards from your fellow Googler in Canada Edit: Sorry forgot to mention, your opinions of internal tooling and documentation is 100% spot on

Love that you mentioned the internal abstraction problem!! It’s something that I’ve heard from a lot of engineers at google. I can definitely see how that’s an issue.

Glad you settled down and you're thriving. Thank you for always updating us.

The internal tools used in Google is an example of specialised training where employees are trained towards their products and software which are unique so that its harder to transfer your skills in Google to another company like Facebook.

Really happy for you dude. I think you deserve it :)

I just start a job in Amazon partly thanks your channel👏🏼 I definitely feel the same pain as you regarding company internal tools.

It was nice talking to you at the discord event. Please do more of it!!!

Very relevant video to someone who just escaped a long stride of unemployment and got an offer from a huge company that offers free meals and has a labyrinth of internal tools unfamiliar to most outside of it. Just gonna say I really appreciate your channel! It was probably the best resource I found for preparing.

4:27 describes generally how it is feels to work with any gcloud library; it's easier and quicker to read the code and frob the inputs in such a way as to coalesce it into behaving as expected than it is to read the documentation which is generally either old, incomplete, or missing.

I'm a student working at a mid-sized tech company (~50mill ARR) since my COOP in september and honestly I had pretty much the same experience (tho at a way smaller scale haha the closest thing we have to a personal chef is a keurig machine that brews coffee lol, but we also get free beer). Especially the lack of docs in internal tools. It's the most frustrating thing to get to a point in debugging where VS just skips over the code where the bad thing happens and you can't just google the problem. Now you gotta look and find the repo and dig into the code spend hours tryna understand wtf is going on only for the senior dev to basically know what's going on and fix it instantly. IMO the best thing about it is the variety of stuff to do which is what I think differentiates working in software companies vs working in a company with an IT sect. I've had a friend who spent their time in something like the later and it's not fun. Basically an office job: you spent little time coding/ solving problems and more or less dealing with bureaucratic corporate stuff. Based on my experience so far (and contrary to a lot of my beliefs I had during hs), I learned you don't need to work at FAANG to get that software culture and work environment (tho you will make the most money working there)

Your content is helping me at lot in my journey. Thank you for doing this.

Really great insights. Hopefully you can turn this into a regular quarterly series or something.

Hi Neetcode, I recently got an offer for Microsoft, and I will be starting next year! Thank you so much for your videos, it helped a lot!!

Great video! I failed my google technical interview a couple weeks ago but I’m going to continue to try. I still work for a pretty good company and now I k ow what areas to work on if I want to work for Google.

I have been using your videos to help me prepare for my Google interview in a week. Thank you for providing some of the best leetcode content I have encountered!

Hey bro good content. Thanks for the neetcode in the next months it will be my resource to study :)

I just got my offer from G and its all thanks to this channel!! You are the absolute best!

Loved the transparency, thanks for sharing.

I still remember when you say "I'm still unemployed so let's do this leetcode question", jeez.. now you're at google, totally savage. Thank you, I learned A LOT from you. I hope the best for you

Thank you so much for sharing your job experience. It is so funny how they make candidates reverse linked links or difficult algorithm questions with rarely used data structures and not use it at real work :}

That's pretty crazy to hear about the differences in food! Eat all you can man! You deserve it. Thanks for sharing about your experience. Thanks to your videos I was able to land a new job and get a competitive salary. Keep up the good work.

I work at a FAANG company. The free food is nice. I think the company I work at does their food really well and they have good consistency across locations. They hire regional culinary managers to focus on quality in those regions and the menus.

Thanks for sharing. At least we have a chance to see google from inside. Please keep sharing, most of us won't be able to get there and having a friend working there is super Cool.

You are just modest to think that yo udon't deserve such a good job, that's what would keep you striving and content at the same time. Loved your genuine opinion!

The thing about abstraction feel kinda weird. To me, google exposes waaaay more of how things work than most orgs, especially if they’re built on public clouds. Like, you can see how racks/servers are organized in a way you typically wouldn’t think about elsewhere. You can see the code for everything - databases, distributed processing, VMs, whatever. A lot of the most unique stuff isn’t open source but the papers have been published to the public - spanner, flume, mapreduce, Zanzibar, etc - so you can kinda see how things work from the outside. It’s pretty awesome.

Because of your videos I was able to land a job at a FAANG company. You’re the goat

your videos on leetcode problems are so helpful! I just got my first frontend engineer job at Uber, and i'm on my week 1! Thank you

Great video man. I love the honesty

Got into google, starting this summer. Thank you for your leetcode videos and the insight to working there!!

I have an onsite interview coming up thanks to ur channel - keep up the miracle work!!

Hi NeetCode! I just stumbled upon your channel today and I am grateful I can get information and relate to somebody who has also been Neet. I am still currenlty Neet, but I have quit a lot of bad habits (including losing weight, getting into exercise, quitting drugs/drinking) recently. I am glad somebody who was neet managed to get out and is now a successful youtuber and programmer! It's recently been my dream to learn about mathematics and learn how to be a SWE. The thing thats kept me sane and gave me purpose when I didn't think i'd quit drugs or drinking was math and coding. Tell me, when you were in your lowest point as a neet, did coding or academics give you purpose in life like no other? Im thinking of picking up a part time job soon and wanting to go to school for mathematics and maybe minor in CS or vice verse. Just want to understand your frame of mindset when you decided to just put your nose to the grindstone and learn coding

Super cool insight to help us see behind the Google curtain.

Thanks to your channel I accepted my Google offer last month! I've loved onboarding so far. You're awesome Neetcode!

I love the M&M example so much.

As someone at the end of their programming career I find this very interesting. Back in the day everything was proprietary because there were no open source frameworks, few commercial tools and pretty much every company had very different ways of doing things. Moving job was always a huge learning curve. Then things improved with more standards, open source frameworks and popular commercial tools being used everywhere but it looks like large corporations are now going back to proprietary in house tools and frameworks to give them an edge. Things seem to have gone full circle.

Thanks for your video. Received email form Google’s recruiter and hope I could get enough luck to join Google. Really nice working environment especially in NYC, heard from my friend working there.

At Amazon/AWS, they try to use public AWS but teams are often required to build on internal tooling that often feel clunky or outdated

A new perspective for describing Google.... Hats off to you

Super interesting hearing about how all the internal tools add a lot of Googlely layers of abstraction and complexity. Also funny how Google doesn’t use GCP much, and spanner pretty much breaks the CAP theorem. It definitely sounds like there are some unique challenges to working at Google. Thanks for sharing - hope you get to reverse some linked lists soon!

the level of honest is incredible

Thanks for being so honest!

Love your content man 👌👌

Nice review, I feel like you just described where I work as well same thing tools and abstraction, yamls and configs, automation....

I am right now interning at the MP1 building (5:08) and the food is pretty cool in the campus. Breakfast has less variety though. Work wise I feel there is a lot of interesting things going on and while output is expected, you won't really feel the pressure. And oh, Google has an extensive network of free transport here in the Bay Area.

This came at the craziest time lmao. I am interning there now and all these internal tools are so annoying, because I can't learn them from some online youtube videos like I usually do, I am limited to the subpar internal docs.

I’m an intern in the New York office, it’s great!

Awesome video...thanks for sharing :)

This is awesome! 👏🏻👏🏻

thanks for sharing your genuine feedback

I can relate to you abstraction point. I used to work for a company which used to do the same. Its really pain, you don't understand whats under the hood. Still nice video mate.

Thanks for sharing! Google is a huge company, there's so many micro cultures that exist

Great perspective from a new grad POV. There are lots of other quirks at Google that you will learn once you have more experience.

If I was Google, I would hire a team that does extensive documentation and that's all they do. They listen to any new commit, update documentation accordingly, and reach out to the author for more details if necessary. I could also see them do design docs for better code and doc organization. They would also be the goto for asking about any project. I imagine this team would have to be very large, but like you have Google money. It should be worth it in the long run.

Tbh I feel exactly the same about the internal tooling issues, but I work for a 150 ppl company instead. Our own tool is amazing, for most of the times. When there's a bug, I head directly to my mentor.

Great vid. Hopefully I can make it to Google one day!

You have to realize that at companies the size of Google, culture is highly dependent on your department or division. I work at a very large tech company and I love my department but we also score extremely high on our employee satisfaction surveys compared to the rest of the company. It's pretty obvious that if I were working in a different part of our tech org, I would not be as happy. This is just something to keep in mind for people who are new to the tech scene (or really the corporate job scene in general). It is very important to grill your potential employers when you are interviewing. If one company is offering $150k but you don't get a good feeling from them and another company is offering $130k but you feel like it's a great fit, the second job is going to be a better use of your time and feel more rewarding overall (unless you're a masochist...)

Congrats man! I really want to part of Google some day.

Nice update. I need to train more b4 applying.. I am coming.

You deserve more subscribers

You deserve that job bro!!

Man you’re awesome!

Great review

Pretty interesting video, thank you for the inside look. If I may ask, what made you want to work at Google or other similar big companies? Im curious hehe.

Mind if you share your journey ? How you got started with coding self taught, boot camp or school ?

Thanks for the videos man! Out of curiosity, can I ask what is your leetcode profile?

Congrats!!!

I like this. You said it from a different point of view. Maybe after 2 years working there, you can update the video 👍🏽

Hi Neet. Is it legit a monorepo or a repo with submodules? How long does it take to pull it? How do they keep size in check?

Hey! Did you have the option to work fully remote? Also what team do you work on?

Absolute dream job... Hard work pays off!

This sounds like where I work, tech jobs are incredible.

Welcome! GCP is a lot newer than other Google stuff. Eventually, more stuff will be on GCP

One day I will also say day one! thanks for sharing your impression

How does the mono repo work? Is it like one big repo with smaller repos beneath it? Otherwise I imagine it'd be too big to clone to your laptop, and would have merge conflicts etc.

Well I’m glad you’re enjoying it…cause at the end of the day that’s what matters.

You live like a king man like if good not pretty good

Thanks to you i have got a job at amazon!

Thanks GOD for a real video on how working at Google really is. A lot of internal tools we use at Google are not something super unique and are still transferable. They are based on similar core concepts.

Intro is true. Was pissed I had to study for shit I have never nor ever will need at work

How about coding algorithm. Have you had to solve any task using an algorithm O(logn), O(nlogn), etc? Or even have you seen it implemented in some code?

Hey, great video I have a question. What programming language do you use at Google or what role where you hired as in other words what do you do everyday

Thanks for the insights, very interesting stuff. I tried getting an internship at Google, got into the project search stage, but they could not find a project for me. hopefully I will have another opportunity in the future.

Great video!

Placing this here for when I join Google after writing Neetcode for some months. Currently unemployed

FAANG has a huge difference from the rest of the world. So many things are handled automagically for you through internal tools that you need to kind of relearn how to exist outside of FAANG

hey when would you say is the right time to interview after studying leetcode (feeling confident) etc

internal documentation being bad or non existent is THE WORST! I want to learn some company specific things that I can't just find online, but since the documentation isn't up to date or isn't there, I have to take up the time of the more senior developers or managers. I feel like every software company has these problems, funny to hear that Google has it too!

I’m curious to know if Google cares about your experience in working with specific languages i.e. Kotlin/Java etc. It seems like they only care about data structures and algorithms and not so much on technical skills or experience in using those languages/frameworks/tools.

Did you have experience before working at google? And what level are you currently? l3, l4, other?

Did you feel impostor syndrome in these months? After numerous successful projects and 2 years in FAANG I finally stopped thinking about leaving the job because of the feeling that I'm not good enough. Which is crazy because I also realize I've been ignoring all the overwhelmingly positive feedback at all times and discarding it as "fake".

Honesty 🔥❤️

Hey NeetCode, you should consider making some content on how to answer "Googleyness and Leadership" questions. This has been the hardest category for me to explain to people prepping for Google interviews.

Even Google's open source FE framework Angular is so sophisticated and has so much abstractions everywhere! Sometimes reading the docs use to feel like I've entered some mysterious land which is so cut off from the outer world(FE toolings) that if I spend more time in here I'll forget to live like a normal person! I think I over over-exaggerated a bit 😆

my question is do google ask system design question for SDE1 role or any entry level SDE role ?

Would you recommend doing a software engineer bootcamp, for example at University of Texas, to start up in this career? I do have a bachelors degree in biology. Thank you sir!

love the "can't imagine a better job" disclaimer at the end for his bosses watching XD

Hey i dont know what department you worked in but i wanted to ask you a question . Is there any way i could get my old gmail account back if its been longer than 6 months since deleting it? They say its impossible to retrieve but i know my data must be stored somewhere especially since i cant make a new account with the same name because it's "taken" any advice on who to contact or how to retrieve my account (other than the usual Google account recovery thing) would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks :)