Easy Google Coding Interview With Ben Awad

[@clem]

What’s more cocky and sarcastic than Ben Awad? Ben Awad after he successfully reverses a linked list. Check out the video we did on Ben’s channel if you wanna see _me_ get interviewed by Ben! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ_Oo3epmp6EgcU

[@sangrambarge7081]

you guys are making awesome content, making software engineering fun

[@thaer954]

Can i apply and get an interview at Google when I'm living overseas? Or do i have to move to the US before applying for the job...

[@thaer954]

What advice do you have for us foreigners?

[@migueldomingos4570]

😂

[@poisson6673]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXbUmpelmpd8pck

[@TechWithTim]

Hey, why does Ben get the easy question!!! I had to suffer through the very hard one for a whole hour 😑

[@rareshika]

R.I.P

[@devguyahnaf]

coding interviews are truly broken.......it just went brrr

[@dontsubscribetomychannel8619]

Rip

[@blazi_0]

Hey Tim you can watch the title , it says " Easy interview " And I think you r better than awad in coding 😏😉⚘

[@TechWithTim]

but thanks ;)

[@GyaneshISHU]

Clem : Do you have any questions for us ? Ben : How on earth can you keep using Angular ?

[@leonardomorel9412]

I imagine this guy saying "idk that's pretty sus" in the actual interview and the google techlead be like "Aight, you in"

[@ZVEKOfficial]

AMOGUS KEANU REEVES REDDIT WHOLESOME 100 EPIC GAMER MOMENT GOOGLE APPROVED INTERVIEW

[@MBTIMemes]

@@ZVEKOfficial ok

[@foo3268]

@@ZVEKOfficial this was 11 months ago, give it a rest brainlet

[@LuisMorales-yx8di]

Clement you should interview more beginners and see their progress in a couple of months. this would be really fun and interesting

[@mti2fw]

It'll be awesome! 🚀

[@list9016]

calling ben a beginner DAMN

[@jomalomal]

@@list9016 bro did you see how much he struggled to reverse a linked list? Clearly a beginner, at least with data structures and algorithms

[@shadowpwls3]

​@@jomalomal these things take practice ,it's nothing magical with them.

[@GodofStories]

@@jomalomal you're confusing the meaning of a "beginner" to programming to the meaning of knowing how to study particular coding problems like reversing a linked list. I might have studied linked lists in a college class. But programming for 5 years + earning more than 6 figures. I have never needed to know how to reverse a linked list. But once I looked at the problem, studied it and learnt it fully within a couple hours. So I'm saying you're confusing studying leetcode questions to being a beginner to coding. You can program without knowing a lot of these questions like inverting a binary tree. All those questions only show you know how to study for an exam. Ben is clearly not a beginner, he's programmed a lot. He just didn't take time to study those Leetcode questions

[@andrewv8548]

I love Clement giggling at Ben's every move

[@clem]

That's what happens when you interview a natural comedian.

[@nomadvagabond1263]

@@clem ehm👀 do you mean he is a joke?😂😂

[@aryanpuri6192]

@@nomadvagabond1263 nope his live is a joke 😂😂😂

[@natetate785]

Ben looks so much happier in this video then he does in any of his own.

[@MisraPreetiman]

*changes d to D and calls it Big D in a coding interview* Interviewer - HHHHHMMMMMMMM 👀

[@aryamankukal1056]

tel me the timestamp for when that happened! Please!

[@bingpingbongpong662]

@@aryamankukal1056 pretty much at the beginning, first question when he starts commenting the way

[@brewlian11]

Dallas is also referred to as The Big D 😂

[@INKILU]

@@aryamankukal1056 6:48

[@josephmichel2581]

Finally someone who noticed

[@jovanjevtic5311]

You should interview him for Angular

[@clem]

I think Ben would just walk out of that interview and even *rm -rf* the machine he'd be interviewing on.

[@alphacoder3822]

Ben hates angular

[@dishagupta7446]

I literally want to watch this😂😂

[@notquitehim]

@@clem hahahahahah

[@Hannah-ly6ff]

@@clem 😂😂😂

[@Saitama-py8dz]

how could you beat the guys who have been coding for years when you have been coding only for 6 months? you are amazing and talented.

[@danny.golcman6846]

He is smart and also has a math background so that helps him a lot when he codes as coding involves a lot of problem solving, logic, and analytical thinking.

[@jonsnow9246]

There is a video on my Algoexpert ad 😂

[@weirdduck4578]

It's kind of fun seeing a master failing a bit in other master's craft. Great video clement.

[@Digital963]

He lost me when he shortened “temp” to “tmp” but left “previous” as “previous

[@brooksgunn5235]

😂😂😂

[@TheoParis]

@@brooksgunn5235 LMAO

[@DreaminBig]

Typo

[@atifadib]

i thought clement will pull his hair out as soon as awad named a variable "next_guy" :)

[@clem]

😂Not the best variable name for an arbitrary linked list node, but I figured Ben wouldn't name it like that in a real production-grade codebase. Also, this was just a fun interview!

[@clem]

Classic Ben Awad though.

[@necaton]

what would be a better name? xD

[@casperes0912]

@@JustTheHighlights Equality!

[@mostafahana1713]

😂😂😂😂

[@De4dlyX]

this is one of a few computer programmers that is this energetic and interesting in terms of communication and interaction, most people I know are nerds and introverts, that is also myself LOL

[@JayPatel12928]

Apart from the actual coding, this guy is just so fun to work with.

[@bonzupippinpaddleopsicopol8094]

10/10 would love to see Ben do the actual coding interview. Make him use Angular 👀

[@lucasthorsen784]

This video was super fun, I myself love frontend engineering and I'm a big fan of both you and Ben Awad, so I'd definitely like to see you put him through a real google coding interview.

[@dk3153]

dude seems so happy and cocky at the same time, couldnt help it but smile all the way through the video

[@medaminesfaxi909]

best variable name : next_guy xD

[@DasBeatz]

next_next_guy next_guys_neighbor_that_asks_for_sugar

[@TheRaspPie]

There's actually a missing edge case. If the linked list is empty, it is represented by None and the function crashes accessing curr.next in line 14.

[@ayhamboi9720]

The function accepts the head as input, implying that the list has at least one item being the head

[@theendurance]

@@ayhamboi9720 no not really. head can point to null (empty list)

[@claesboillot5138]

@@theendurance its passing the node itself not the pointer of a linked list struct, and a null node would be invalid here

[@theJasin]

@@ayhamboi9720 not correct

[@mr.mystiks9968]

Imagine if a very skilled candidate adopted Ben’s skill of typing jk and troll var names and comments

[@killswitch4897]

This was by far one of the best nd funniest vids I've seen on this channel.... "How about that algo girl" was just epic 😂😂

[@geeshta]

"I'm not happy about that naming convention" ohhh Ben I love you for this.

[@adityak1231]

I didn't know what inverting a binary tree was and once I saw that diagram, I immediately got the solution(same as what Ben did). Also, using multiple assignment is shorter tree.left, tree.right = tree.right, tree.left.

[@Dyanosis]

tree.left, tree.right = tree.right, tree.left will be incorrect because tree.left will not be what you want to set tree.right to. You still need a "temp" var to hold tree.left before you set tree.right. But yes, multiple assignment (for languages that understand it, is useful here).

[@adityak1231]

@@Dyanosis it does. The assignment expression has variables passed by values on the right. Try running it for yourself once.

[@toxicass100]

You also can reverse linked list with recursion: def reverse_linked_list(node, next=None): if node.next is None: node.next = next return node new_node = node.next node.next = next return reverse_linked_list(new_node, node)

[@danielgigago26]

That inverseLinkedList could be a real challenge for someone who never heard about that before, it is not something we normally do in a daily basis. I can say it is not easy, even harder than the matrix challenge in the later session with Ben.

[@jackjohnson7660]

For whatever reason linked lists are so confusing to me compared to other data structures. Seeing that it even made Ben have to really think about it makes me feel somewhat better about myself

[@Dyanosis]

LinkedLists are exactly what you think the are. They're Lists that refer to their elements by links. If you think about how Arrays work under the hood, they're LinkedLists, but only in memory. Meaning the Array knows where each element is due to its place in memory. If you're confused by LinkedLists, you must be really confused by DoublyLinkedLists then. Which is just a List where each Node knows it prev and next. Did a project in school where we built Google's ranking system using DoublyLinkedLists, it was easy and made total sense.

[@trampflips101]

​@@Dyanosis "If you think about how Arrays work under the hood, they're LinkedLists, but only in memory" - that's gotta be the most confusing way of explaining arrays i've ever seen lol

[@petyoruzhin7191]

Im subscribed to both and am happy to finally see you two in action. Had fun watching this and the one on Ben's channel! Cannot wait for the follow up videos on both sides. xD

[@blasttrash]

17:21 Ben is not pulling his punches back lol. Roasting about Vim mode in the video 😂

[@rw5736]

Ben is the man. Cool to see the colab!

[@Arcvx]

Google coding interview with Tourist when 👀

[@clem]

I'm down whenever he is!

[@ayubkosimov199]

@@clem tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist tourist!!!

[@anirbanchatterjee3023]

I'm waiting for that day!!

[@beanlighter9491]

torist doesn't give interviews

[@cpwithsundar]

@@clem Tourist will be like "I have 7 gold medals in code jam . So ask your question and watch my screen casts , rather than wasting my time". Anyway, i don't think Gennedy would ever say that.

[@KOxArtist2]

i feel like Clement didn't contribute to any of the content here. where's the feedback, where's the review, where's the alternate solutions?

[@glenn8781]

using Python made inverting the binary tree a lot easier.. I'm a medium level coder and it took me about 45 mins to come up with the recursive logic and code the same in Java.

[@ISmellCapDog]

I pause the video at the linked list reversal question and challenged myself to come up with a function. It took me an hour but I finally got it! Now I'll watch what he came up with.

[@ISmellCapDog]

I completely over complicated my method compared to his...

[@kimayapanash8998]

I think we are gonna get a new worker for algo expert 😁

[@clem]

👀

[@dinckelman]

Oddly enough, this is a lot like my recent interviews went, minus the fact that I had a white background google drive instead of an ide. My interviewer also asked me weird questions and then got both of confused for half an hour c:

[@bzygauksei]

And how did they go

[@Srinivassss1999]

I forgot how to reverse a linked list after I saw Ben scramble😂

[@MsLemons12]

you guys seem like you've been friends your entire lives lol

[@discretelycontinuous2059]

Wheras Clement has created a platform for training people to crunch through these thoes of interview questions (and has hired tim to help him with it), wheras Ben questions the relevance of the practice. It would be interesting to hear them discuss / debate the relative advantages and disadvantages of coding interviews

[@AndrewDaniele87]

@@discretelycontinuous2059 I want to see this!

[@Remy2Stronk]

What I would have done is found the middle most index, then Create an array with indexes = to the previous one Find distance from middleIndex to each point in the list If currentIndex < middleIndex then add 2 x difference from currentIndex to middleIndex If currentIndex > middleIndex then subtract 2 x different from currentIndex to middleIndex Take those values from the first array, then shove them in the index in the new array that we got from the previous equation, iterated thru the entire first array

[@pant1371]

too much complexity

[@Remy2Stronk]

@@pant1371 i don't know how else to solve it haha

[@pant1371]

@@Remy2Stronk that's how i did it on C: struct Node* reverseList(struct Node* head) { struct Node* prev = head; struct Node* curr = head->next; struct Node* tmp1 = prev; struct Node* tmp2 = curr; int i=0; while (curr!=NULL) { tmp1=curr; tmp2=curr->next; curr->next=prev; if (i==0){ prev->next=NULL; } i=i+1; prev=tmp1; curr=tmp2; } return prev; }

[@Remy2Stronk]

@@pant1371 isn't that kind of just a recursive method but does the same thing?

[@pant1371]

@@Remy2Stronk it does the same thing but wirhout the complexity of creating a new array/list,which is not allowed either way(according to the rules of the exercise)

[@GodofStories]

Dude watching this again after an year or so, watching Ben is still so funny man

[@avadhut325]

This was fun. Really looking forward to the next interview with Ben.

[@Abhishek-dp5tc]

Damn I never thought inverting a binary tree is that easy

[@clem]

I don't know why everyone makes it out to be so scary or difficult! It really isn't!

[@KayronDeacon]

Because it sounds like you're flipping it vertically not horizontally.

[@adilnawaz5346]

@@KayronDeacon yess.

[@Abhishek-dp5tc]

@@clem Because of the ad, lol. I watch that ad like 30 times a day.

[@zss123456789]

@@KayronDeacon yeah when I first heard it I thought it was head as input, but an array of leaf nodes or something as output, and you have to reverse the connection, so the original left child will now have its parent as its right child.

[@MrZeffy]

I started watching this video and i got so lost in it that i didn't feel that it was 28 fuckin minutes long... Amazing one🔥❤️

[@461932570]

I feel like he legit searched the answer to invert binary tree before hand. He struggled a little much for reversing a linked list

[@amirhassan6549]

This the only video I know how to reverse linked list. Means easy task I have seen on this channel otherwise I have only seen a difficult task here. I prefer all who see my comment to see this channel because it is really helpful. Best for logic design.

[@AhsanKhan-es7xg]

what's the hardest thing in the world? Ben: AngularJS

[@BlockCylinder]

I really enjoyed this video but I don't believe Ben can simulate a legit technical interview. He didn't take this seriously at all. I'd really love to see a mock interview with a recent Fullstack graduate.

[@satyafariz8587]

i love how the algoexpert guy just smiles all the time

[@elirannissani914]

Bro you just have to ask the channel "The cherno" to do a google coding interview!

[@OhhHeMad]

that dude would kill it. The guy is wicked smart

[@BehruzbekOtayev]

Can you do the round two please? With more difficult questions??? Would love to see Ben grind

[@Shubham-xh9nz]

Imagine cracking an angular jocks in google coding interview.

[@sajidrsheikh]

So that's reversing binary tree, I used to think, I had to move head node to bottom. My whole life was a lie 😑

[@venuvenu2719]

Yeah , a great developer couldnt crack this question in google interview.

[@codearabawy]

Hahaha!

[@utkarshmaurya6877]

They should call it Mirroring the Binary Tree...when they say Invert a Binary Tree...I thought same as you..😂

[@ChristopherRockhill]

Same

[@ShubhamSinghYoutube]

Hey Clement, Pls make a playlist of your Mock Programming interview questions. Thank you in advance.

[@suushi-baked]

I don't know why but this video hyped me up to practice my programming!

[@danielbostwick2975]

Recursion is our friend here. Pop off the head, reverse the rest (recursively), append the original head. Return :) To preserve the original llist, do the same but loop through reverse(head.rest) as another variable, then append head.first as a separate link on the end. Return :)

[@roshanmhatre8810]

Your videos are so awesome, funny and at the same knowledgeable ❤️ Please make more Google coding Interviews @AlgoExpert Guy

[@shreeram_kulkarni]

py devs: "Oh PyThoN Is ThE BeST" Also py dev: spending hours to find a frikin INDENTATION Error. LMAO

[@omzer97]

you meant to say python_is_the_best :p

[@uttamo7]

Yeah if you’re dumb and don’t use a modern editor

[@nobytes2]

Use a linter bro wtf

[@DoctorWhoNow01]

@@SpaceTimeBeing_ I'm new to python, what exactly are the benefits of using them? Because it's a seperate segment, you don't have to worry about indenting I assume?

[@DavisTibbz]

Exactly this. F- python

[@WebDevAnjali]

Jezz i can never be this happy talking or giving my interview both of them are so chill. Greate watching them . I'm far away to crack any interview btw.

[@TruthSeekerClub]

I never inverted a binary tree before. paused the video and solved it and continue to watch. I came up with the same solution

[@TheSocialDeveloper]

I heard they’re adding ACT/SATs to their interviews now

[@lagon7830]

Plans changed in the past 5 months. You now have to design a commercial airliner from scratch to work for most companies.

[@TheSocialDeveloper]

@@lagon7830 That makes sense!

[@EvanTempleton]

@17:29 Clément exhibiting God-tier restraint :)

[@adithyaks8584]

Trust me they don't ask these in interviews now a days. Interviews are mostly complex with DP questions.

[@stefonsimmons651]

Yes. Please. Let's see the google interview!

[@harispapadopoulos4295]

I didn’t get notified for the video but it popped on my recommendations. I guess where the notifications fail the all mighty KZbin algorithm is there to save the day. Also, what did you main back in the days you were playing Overwatch ? YoE: -1 TC:0K/ Year

[@clem]

Thank goodness for the KZbin algorithm. And I mained Mei, believe it or not. YoE: 3.5 TC: over 9000

[@rareshika]

@@clem you should do a video where you play Overwatch, btw I am a 14 yo romanian who loves your content

[@Meridian-lk2fo]

I've only been in Computer Science at school for three months, so all of this is well over my head, but it's fascinating to watch anyway.

[@saranyaghosh2003]

Same bro same

[@ye4us]

As someone new to programming, reversing linked lists still feels worlds away lol. Practice makes permanent i guess

[@DiogoVazTavares]

Ok! Now I wanna see Ben go thought a real intreview! :D

[@Nikhil-eg9zc]

Man I really miss those sick card trick intros

[@kuei-chinhuang815]

Absolutely love this video!!!! Look forward to you guys making the next one 🤩

[@Joshuahendrix]

Thanks for this, these videos have definitely upped my confidence in my own abilities so I appreciate you guys!

[@Furiac.]

this was fun, one of those easy questions that just takes some examples to run through and get it down

[@winuxworx]

inverted binary should be reversing all the numbers where head now points to the last record which is the highest number and the last record at the bottom should be pointing to 1. This binary tree problem is instead called flipping the left and right nodes of a binary tree

[@dukeofminecraft]

I feel like the way Ben interview is really good, he acts clueless and really plays up the fact that he’s using his problem solving skills. Then again he could actually just be clueless with good problem solving skills lol

[@DEEPAKS-o1m]

they both are smiling thorught the video

[@Hgh38]

My dream interview question. I did cry if I get this question.

[@pant1371]

unless they ask you to do it on C. Using pass by reference..

[@ezpz463]

Ben throwing shade on clem every now and then ;)

[@Kenji_195]

/*I stopped the video at 12:29 and decided to do it by my own before watching his solution (not sure if it's kind of cheating because I saw a "starting point", although I didn't really based the idea on the solution so far at that point) After between 3-5 minutes I came up with this:*/ (head) curr = head; prev = null; do { next = curr.next; curr.next = prev; prev = curr; curr = next; } while (curr != null); //What do you guys think? //Well, time to keep watching the video, to see what Ben came up with

[@dvlpr]

I can't track what he's doing but this is already my favorite interview lol

[@yGKeKe]

Oh snap, finally a question I actually saw in algorithms class.

[@literal-tree]

wait so a binary tree inversion is literally just a temp swap??? wtf why is it considered hard then??

[@sayven]

I always assumed inverting a binary tree was something like inverting a matrix. A bit disappointed honestly.

[@张翼-r8l]

Do you guys think it's interaction/energetic/proactively communicating, or do you think it's kinda rude, when he interrupted/talked to himself when Clement was talking?

[@josh1234567892]

8:55 "This is what I know I think is right" story of my life lol

[@sapito515]

I'd love to see a legitimate interview!

[@haciendadad]

It almost looks like Clement was a little sheepish because Ben tore through his interview questions an considering Ben is like 10 years younger (I think) Clement didn't expect Ben to not only run over those questions, he did it laughing and joking. Ben is really something! He will be the one to watch in the next 10 years.

[@kairon5249]

this was interesting. for the first question i didnt really understand what ben was trying to do, i just looped through the list backwards and appendd it onto a new list

[@sarveshhiwase193]

Clement said you shouldn't create a new list

[@sarveshhiwase193]

You should mutate the original list

[@kairon5249]

@@sarveshhiwase193 that complicates things but its still really easy

[@sarveshhiwase193]

@@kairon5249 I know you're right brother, but the stakes are high for Google.

[@pant1371]

struct Node* reverseList(struct Node* head) { struct Node* prev = head; struct Node* curr = head->next; struct Node* tmp1 = prev; struct Node* tmp2 = curr; int i=0; while (curr!=NULL) { tmp1=curr; tmp2=curr->next; curr->next=prev; if (i==0){ prev->next=NULL; } i=i+1; prev=tmp1; curr=tmp2; } return prev; }

[@Valhallaeiru]

We have done this exercise so many times in class, during my second year, that as soon as I saw this my brain went "OH NO! What if I've always solved it the wrong way?!"

[@user-qy6tu9ip9v]

I don't understand any of this.....

[@doublesid1395]

these questions getting easier and easier

[@bobaashenvale3968]

Yes please, do the legitimate google interview with Ben Awad!

[@xavierica]

I hope Ben gets the job after countless of interviews lol Great Content. Thanks!!

[@luizcarvalho7597]

This video was awesome, really. Waiting for the google interview heheh

[@aarushiagarwal8938]

I just loved the video ❤❤ the interview was too cool to be called as an interview 😊

[@fafamnzm]

yeeeaaaaah, let's do that!!! let's do the full interview for Mr. ben

[@JannisAdmek]

24:00: Just a sidenode, in Python you can actually do this: tree.left, tree.right = tree.right, tree.left

[@arijitdas7526]

I've got youtube notification for this video from both channels 😂

[@luckfordnkana3172]

Why was Clement giggling at Ben when he made a move😅

[@casperes0912]

Frankly I had a solution almost immediately... Then Ben started talking and I got confused, haha. I'm not trying to be negative about him though, I love Ben and agree with him on a lot of things. I just find algo challenges fun and apparently have a rather different approach to problems like this

[@Jambajakumba]

Let's get that interview!!!!!

[@himanshuraj1874]

That "jk" muscle memory tho. This guy types like- cool variable name just kidding just kidding erase erase. 😁

[@AyushMandowara_xx7]

might be his vim key binding to switch to normal mode though

[@amysheeter877]

The chemistry is unmatched.