Already know the interview question? Should you admit it? - Java Brains Interview Tips

[@rahulgopinathan172]

The trick is to act that you dont know, divert little in the solutioning and then again correct the approach in the end by explaining the thought process :D

[@CodeVolcano]

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[@PraveenKumar-uj2ih]

Exactly Bro

[@baltoncome]

you definitely don't tell them, i'ts like studying for a test, if the teacher puts the questions you studied for on the test That's Bonus!

[@CodeVolcano]

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[@sagarahuja4386]

Where on earth u will get points for honesty. May be in another world.

[@aamirjamal6833]

For my interview with Tesla, I was asked to create a queue using stack. He asked me if I know the question. I told him honestly that I've never solved it but I know that it can be done using 2 queues. He thanked me for my honesty and then asked me to now solve the same problem using only a single stack. I struggled with it but with his hint got to the solution. Fun interview. Got the offer.🤘🏼

[@sapnaa6576]

Is it implemented using recursion?

[@aamirjamal6833]

@@sapnaa6576 yes. Using the internal stack. It would take the same space. But that is what he wanted.

[@sapnaa6576]

@@aamirjamal6833 thank you. I found this solution on the net. But to think on the spot during interview is amazing. Congrats on your new offer.

[@aamirjamal6833]

@@sapnaa6576 Thanks. Although the offer ain't new anymore. Been 4 months since I joined. All the very best. 👍🏼

[@arunraj2527]

I would never admit. After all we practice to get a familiarity. But important point is to talk through the thought process. They may ask you to improve the solution too.

[@icystrangers5482]

As an interviewer, the person who already knows the problem has an immediate advantage. 1. They show that they are confident if I were to ask more difficult questions, or switch question. They also show that they practise. I see no disadvantages in saying that you know, unless you are unsure of yourself, or the interviewer is unprepared. If you get penalized for knowing something, or get taken for granted, then you may not wish to work for the company anyway

[@olegmanzhos1]

but isn't it an overall goal of the interview to know answers to the questions? Thus for the question about "What is the inheritance?", I can answer that I know the answer to this question, ask the next one please :)

[@wolvie008]

Being an interviewer , I can really feel this

[@abhishekverma5928]

very well Explained. I am very lucky that I found your channel. Please make some more projects, where you used Kubernates, kafka. IPL Dashboard is extremely good project, learned so many things from that. Each IPL dashboard project video contains whole lot of condensed Information. Ipl dashboard is really gold for me. Your teaching style and material is totally give us Industrial experience. Thanks alot from heart.

[@poomivlogs5719]

And the JavaBrains is so popular that interviewer might have gone though this vedio and can easily figure out if you use this sentence as it is...just thought...by the way thanks for vedio..😃

[@DANNYFIGDESIGNS]

Change the wording around. It does not have to be identical. And the chances are there, but slim.

[@CodeVolcano]

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I used to memorise leaked CCNA answers and gloated how good I was in CISCO networking :D

[@S4sent]

I don't know but i think the onus is on the interviewer to judge If the candidate understand the concepts being used in problem or just crammed the solution.

[@tushartilwani9540]

One time the interviewee said he had solved the problem before I said solve it nonetheless (Because I knew I could make the problem harder by extra requirements). I am not going to penalize someone for being prepared. However, he could not solve it even the basic case as well. NEVER TELL THE YOU HAVE SEEN THE PROBLEM. You are setting yourself for failure.

[@yogeshchaudhari9971]

Many interviewers don't like if u have answers to all thr questions..... thats my personal experience..... The thing which i would say is dont feel miserable if the interviewer rejects u....bcos different interviewers have different mindset to reject

[@simrandotdev]

@Java Brains, I would love to see a Kotlin Series from you. Not sure how proficient you are in Kotlin, but that is something definitely be very well appreciated in your voice and way of explanation. Both to Backend developers and new Android developers

[@VeereshPatel15]

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[@arzz11]

Hey kausik, great video... Just a bit of advice, please add acoustic boards/sound damping materials in your room. 👍

[@venuvenu2719]

I learnt a lot from you than my college. Thanks for putting your site content on KZbin.

[@chinnu9093]

Hi..Need some advice on career switch r learning. I am from Support background for about 6 years and wanted to learn something which helps in my IT career. Which one can I consider. Please suggest. Thanks

[@shashikumareppa7771]

Hai sir geospatial qouries mongodb spring boot java script using Google maps API medha video cheyande sir plzz..

[@vinayakbhat8754]

would appreciate if you could make a video about Saga pattern implementation.

[@gigel008]

Once I got a problem at an interview that I already knew, but still had trouble remembering the solution correctly. It's a bit embarrassing to say you already know the solution and then fail to solve it.

[@gradstudent584]

Thanks for siding with not telling the interviewer. I honestly don't get these corporate mind games. Notice that these games are only for tech workers who actually build the product and get paid much less. It just keeps getting harder for us. The manager track people whose contributions are really doubtful, move up in spite of being bad at their job. This seems like a setup created by management to limit career growth of engineers. The metrics for our promotion or even hiring are so much more stringent. And engineers as a community have probably drunk their own koolaid. When was the last time we saw someone who started as a junior engineer rise ranks and became an executive purely through a technical track?

[@marlegagaming1274]

You : Start with naïve approach. Interviewer : Could you optimize it. You : Spend some time thinking, think out loud, script your way from naïve approach to optimized approach. You : Complete the code 😉😉

[@starskyhutch6011]

Great topic! Can you touch on when you are given an interview question/questions that do NOT relate to the job? For example, I am a QA Automation Engineer-on a few interviews I have been given super advanced coding problems for entry level automation jobs. I've found this frustrating and not fair lol, but I answer them the best I can and always explain my rational of thinking in the code. The few times this has happened they have just sent me the ol' thanks but no thanks email afterwards-never any feedback or explanation of why they are expecting senior coding skills on an entry level position.

[@nandinis7685]

Hi Kaushim purchased ur membership to view video. But I can't access what wrong with it let me know... thanks

[@samarthsinha8999]

Hi. Please make a tutorial on messaging queue application using java.

[@JohnDoe-ej6vm]

Respected teacher , i want to practice watch your videos but there is no channel join option available . Please look into this matter i want to learn but i cant watch your video because of this restriction.

[@amadeuss5600]

Im gonna ask for different question

[@DANNYFIGDESIGNS]

Thank you brother. Love your channel.

[@venkateshanap3271]

How to join as an exclusive member to this channel? Anybody please help me out. I just now bought the membership to get access for Java courses in this channel. Once the payment has been done, but I couldn't able to access till now. Is there any other steps that I missed or I need to pay more

[@computationalbadass]

You're a crook and I love it! Because of that you've just gained a new subscriber x

[@Golbyzshorts]

Hi sir,when remote api is returning empty list ,hystrix fallback method is getting called..could you please let me know how we can overcome it 🙏

[@vibinvenugopal7111]

Hi sir, I can't join to this channel...I choose the 799 per month plan & paid it via Google pay . But it shows purchase cancelled & got a mail from Google payments that "your Google payments user info has changed ". But i am not able to watch the membership needed videos yet .Can you please help me sir ...eagerly waiting for join to this channel...thank you

[@deliveringIdeas]

What channel?

[@anshu261]

Hello Sir, when I am trying to make payment for all access path it gets failed. What should I do?

[@yashwanthp9351]

What if my future interviewer is watching this 👀

[@sreddy8141]

Its pretty much depend on how crazy the interviewer is🤣

[@sriharans4189]

Most of the times interviewer never prepares.. in most cases they wont even read problem description in leetcode or gfg, simply copy paste title and sample I/O and expect the GFG answer to match candidate answer...Out of 10 not even 3 people prepare and ask what they know. so always prepare all interview questions and dont tell them you know.

[@dr.downvote]

In short, the lesser you practice, the lesser chances of you being in this situation!

[@blasttrash]

hey guys how many leetcode are you solving for interview prep? 100? 300? 500? 700? 900?

[@edeepakjain]

Happy Guru Purnima 💐

[@dr.downvote]

When you don't know the solution, but you tell them that you know the solution because you solved it recently, so that he picks another question and this you actually know... Absolute chad move right there

[@foruvasanth]

I admitted it once, proved wrong...Interviewer didn't feel comfortable after I said I know it already :(

[@kaushalpatel91]

Same thing happened with me. Didn't get well with interviewer.

[@foruvasanth]

@@kaushalpatel91 :)

[@letmeseepron]

I once said during an interview that I do know fizzbuzz. When I was in the process of writing down all the cases and paused briefly one interviewer pulled the piece of paper away from me with the words "Already wrong."

[@ForgottenKnight1]

That's just straight up unprofessional. Also, why are you writing code on paper? What is this, the 70's ?

[@se1931]

@@ForgottenKnight1 lol. Probably it was. What do they use these days? Whiteboard? I would prefer to use an IDE if they allow that?

[@pisanghangus2]

nice, i don't plan on telling them either.

[@kishorchintalchere]

Perfect video on this 👌👌🙌

[@arwahsapi]

Why does he look old and young at the same time?

[@Java.Brains]

I'm old in my wisdom and young in my heart ;)

[@monsterhuntergo]

Thank you very much Kaushik.. I am able to build my self-confidence with your help. Most definitely, it is better to practice coding indeed. It also helps improve once logic.

[@rajpopat9285]

Great video

[@anurag9110]

What if the interviewer asks whether I already new the solution?

[@ForgottenKnight1]

You lie. If he has the audacity to ask such questions, you need to step it up a notch.

[@shivamahuja7648]

and there are some interviewers who just care about the final answers and not the approach, let alone the thought process.

[@Java.Brains]

True, there are always those, hopefully in the minority though

[@phabove7]

100% agreed

[@ZhouHaibo]

It is your lucky day if you meet the question before. Just take a breath, and describe yours thought first to your interviewer and start to write the code slowly with explanation step by step.

[@shubhamuniyal2417]

Well i tend to fake it..everytime 😬

[@PeterPetrakis]

Say no and milk appropriately, because you may not know the answer to the next one.

[@Java.Brains]

The trick is to act well without letting the interviewer know that you know. That’s where acknowledging familiarity helps

[@nullpointer57]

Well well, if people admitted, interviews would have been ending in 5 mins :D

[@someperson9536]

What if the interviewer asks, "Can I verify that you know it?"

[@madebygaurav]

7:30

[@MindIsLikeFullMoonInFall]

Definitely don't tell, being honest won't get you the job, being able to solve those stupid tech questions do.

[@arkzbh]

Let's actually get into the fact, and the fact is the person taking your interview, knows shit. If you know better than the guy taking the interview, dominate him/her with terms your sure he doesn't know. Works every time. A 24 years experienced let's say asking you about thread pool, just tell him " sorry uncle, I work in a web project, also we have better infra here so we don't worry about that, we have something called a web server, I'm sure you may have heard" - that actually put them down to their own places.

[@gouravgoel2974]

In short it's a luck if u can crack interview or not

[@srinivas_chilukuri]

Nakal ke liye akal ki zarurat hai! :)

[@sagarnikam6059]

Who goes to topcoder to practice coding for interview preparation 😅??

[@se1931]

What do you recommend?

[@SivaKumar-dw3zf]

Why be honest for a ridiculous interview that rewards cramming ?

[@ankurtyagi6172]

No I will not never ever

[@pranjali1411]

First one here 🙋‍♂️

[@Java.Brains]

Congratulations! Your parents will be so proud! 😄

[@raghavanaliassaravananm1546]

@@Java.Brains Perhaps, they may really be, considering the contents being posted on Java Brains ;)!!

[@pranjali1411]

@@Java.Brains The sarcasm was quite unnecessary. I've been following your content for quite some time now and always found it valuable. This was the first time that I saw your video on the feed immediately after you posted it and I was simply showing my support to your channel. Now about making my parents proud, you don't have to worry about that do you? But I'm sure they'd be happy knowing that I am not mocking strangers on internet for no reason especially the ones that show you support.. All the best!!

[@raghavanaliassaravananm1546]

@@pranjali1411 hey buddy, guess you got offended. Kaushik has been helping many people here and for sure he would NOT have any intention to hurt anyone here. I would request you to NOT to take it seriously. Just learn to enjoy certain subtle jokes as a lighter moment. :)

[@AbhishekChoudhary-fu2ng]

@@pranjali1411 u r over reacting to a very common joke take a chill pill

[@ManishKumar-zt5sk]

special treatment chahiye gawar run-D

[@jagannathsahu1087]

ha ha

[@ForgottenKnight1]

Now why would you do such a silly thing? There is absolutely no advantage in telling him :)) Also, how exactly would the interviewer find out? And even if he does, what is he going to do? He can't do anything :)). I disagree that your thought process is not of exploration. Exploration is exactly what you did when you solved it the first time. Also the third point is somewhat flawed, because 90% of jobs out there revolve around application building, so all this leet code is just mental masturbation most of the time, that you do when you're bored with your life.