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[@bugraaldal1101]

He works at Netflix btw

[@KoboldAdvocate]

Plot twist

[@sk-sm9sh]

Netflix ain't a tech company though. It's a streaming business.

[@bugraaldal1101]

​@@sk-sm9shit was a joke. Also the N in FAANG (five of the most successful/well-known technology companies) stands for Netflix

[@sk-sm9sh]

@@bugraaldal1101 ye si know but just because it's in faang doesn't mean it's a tech company. Concept of FAANG is just idiotic acronym made up by students applying by for jobs those experience in tech field is limited to just few years. FAANG doesnt mean big tech. And netflix isn't even that succesful anymore - it's a single legged business. It was succesful because it found a niche in early 00s but can it find another neache? I doubt. And if it doesn't find it is going to be just one out many many streaming platforms. I think Netflix has better chances to strenghtrn its position for years to come as content curator - like Disney - or Marvel - less so as tech company as it doesn't really have any tech products or tech services.

[@Kane0123]

Nah he works at SkyScanner 🤭

[@WillDelish]

As someone who has given code reviews & freak’n HATE code reviews, I wished companies did a bit more “Refactor this code” or “Find the bug, fix it”, “Add feature to existing code”, “Read this api doc and create a script to use it” etc. vs algorithm memorization. A lot of my time is just consuming sdk / api docs and building the best path forward. I want to test that problem solving thought process on a quick small scale

[@marcialabrahantes3369]

although watch out for the slippery slope of getting free work out of interviewers

[@curlyfryactual]

I don't know if there's a CS student out there that needs to hear this, but I would have liked to when I was in school.. I've never been the most adept technically. I have sizeable knowledge gaps for software engineering, since I went to work for a hardware company out of college (though I work on this in my free time). But, I have done well in the few interviews I have had. Mainly, it's screening for good company culture. I'm suited to those interviews rather than the strict technical assessments because I know that, like me, the interviewer is a person with passions and interests, as well as their own knowledge gaps (or even things they simply haven't thought about much since they left school). Treat your interviewers like people. Don't just ask them questions about the technical setting. Inquire a bit into their life story. How did they end up working at Company X? Were they hired for the same team? What prompted them to change teams? Are they where they thought they would be 5, 10 years ago? Interviewers like these questions, because they can reflect on a bigger picture. It tells them you also are capable of seeing a bigger picture past the whiteboard: that a company is a system of people with strenghts, weaknesses, and motivations. If this doesn't get you into FAANG, so what? It gets you in the door. You couldn't land the most prestigious job in the industry, what about it? You have an opportunity now, probably at a company with lower turnover, to build up your skills. Take your time. Remain in a student mindset. Grow your skills, and your ability to work in the real world. Then, when you're ready (or a little sooner, because a little hunger can be good), go after it again. You will succeed. Just put in the time.

[@troopack420]

This feels like the compilation of all of Prime's takes. Just perfect and the video I needed.

[@mage3690]

Last job I had, one of my coworkers was a Marine (retired). He told me two things: one, "flattery will get you everywhere." Two, "if I ever die in this building, drag me out the door and onto the grass so I can die under the sun." I've always remembered both of those things.

[@Marco-er4ql]

what in the god damn hell are you talking about?

[@mage3690]

@@Marco-er4qlexactly

[@joaodiasconde]

I was told I had "outstanding results" in interviews at Google... 3 months ago now, they haven't found a team yet. 2023 is cursed.

[@bianchialex]

This is normal for them

[@minor12828]

Do they still get paid?

[@joaodiasconde]

​@@bianchialexI was told by many friends inside that this process was a formality that would take some weeks only. I don't think this is normally the case.

[@jb5631]

If they said you did great at Google, even if nothing happens after, you got that in your pocket. Don't keep waiting for long. Just get an interview at another company that you're considering and give it a shot.

[@joaodiasconde]

@@jb5631 most other companies Im interested in dont even answer my application

[@sadboisibit]

Nothing makes my PP softer than another dev asking me to build a service then proceeding to tell me exactly what to do and how to do it.

[@wantedsavage7776]

Bruh 😂 I might have been guilty of this!

[@altrag]

I don't mind being told what to do. Being told how to do it is definitely annoying as hell though.

[@samliveshere88]

20:59 the "let me think about that for a second" such a fucking powerful move in an interview, it shows that 1 you work well under pressure, 2 you arent scared of not having the answers all the time, 3 lets you have some command in the interview and 4 the obvious one it give you time to think

[@anj000]

27:46 it is easy to say "have a conversation and don't recite a story", when you actually can remember and tell a story live. Even talking to my friends I often have trouble remembering some events. Let alone how i felt or how I've delt with it and do it all in a stressful situation. So when I would get a question like "tell me about a situation when you disagreed with someone more senior" I will be most likely blank. Like bruh. Unless it was a drama that lasted for a month I tend to not keep such things in my mind.

[@anj000]

Such questions really remind me of school time. When we were going back from summer break and for example in a foreign language class teacher would ask us to tell a story of what we were doing during summer time - just to test our foreign language ability. And for me it was always the most stressful questions. Because on top of using different language I had to remember some event or tell that I did absolutely nothing whole summer because my parents have no money. People would tell stories how they traveled etc. and I was in home playing Metin2 or GTA.

[@daltonyon]

My man, this video is one the most important, you'll help a lot of devs to get a job. I watched on Twitch and now watching it again on KZbin!!!

[@williamforsyth6667]

He is Gergely Orosz, which is a Hungarian name.

[@dandogamer]

23:35 I've worked for a guy who was like this. It was so infuriating, he would tell me exactly what to do and there was never any conversation with the guy. "I'm right and you're wrong" and most of the time he was right because he withheld crucial information from me

[@kuhluhOG]

2:48 There are companies out there which want you to rate their product BEFORE YOU EVEN GET IT! I very much find this believable.

[@aztracker1]

Once had a really horrible interview as part of a gauntlet series of interviews for a FAANG later found out from the recruiter that part was a personality test. I'm not sure if it was me or the interviewer that failed. I will say I enjoyed interviewing at Netflix. But really didn't want to relocate at that time. Probably the smoothest FAANG interviews I've experienced.

[@craiggazimbi]

"Walk in there without expectation, you know that's a very easy phrase to say when you already have a job" ___That hit home 😅.I think the pressure gets more instance when you really need a win on the interview.

[@perezident14]

Hire me please. I’ll be the first person to sign in at 10:30 and the last person to leave a smidge after 4.

[@robrick9361]

"Eric Bauchman, this is your mom, you are not my baby"

[@hinocenciopaulo]

18:10 - This is why I love you dude!

[@VonUndZuCaesar]

2:47 Yes, you can feel great after getting a rejection. Especially when you get continuous feedback agong the way. At my company you talk with the Talent Search team after each interview. They tell you what when good and also whats not. There are both sides always, even when you get hired. With this feedback you can grow and know what to improve in the future. And yes, you are surly not happy after a rejection, but you can still like the process.

[@JohnTube2K]

when I coded for 15 yrs before moving into architecture leadership… all my coding interviews were mainly me explaining my experience, challenging some of those decisions, and trying to sniff out bs….. never read cracking the code interview or did any leet coding.

[@el_carbonara]

god I hate tech interviews so badly, the amount of BS is incredible and 1st date analogy is spot on

[@orderandchaos_at_work]

When someone is nice to me I instinctively never trust that person ever again.

[@wantedsavage7776]

In corporation world everyone is nice b/c of status quo. That’s why there’s a huge feeling of mis trust I suppose. Or it’s just me. 😂

[@seancooper5007]

@@wantedsavage7776 frankly we need a lot more arseholes.

[@orterves]

39:14 if you're working extra hours for a company, make sure it's advancing your career

[@chillydoog]

18:40 He knows his audience.

[@DigitalNomadOnFIRE]

60% of the time I create perfect code, every time. I never have to refactor.

[@FRAMEDSKATEKREW69]

In college I did amazing for my java classes but when I got one interview with Microsoft not only did they cut everyone's interview in half but basically I was left with 15 minutes after he wasted a lot of time talking. My mind blanked out and I didn't know what to do , I KNEW THE SOLUTION BUT I WAS SO DAMN NERVOUS. I think the questions got me nervous as hell because I was not prepared for the questions on the school capstone project. They kept asking me things making me second guess my part on the project kinda like I was being interrogated. I did not enjoy that interview and I stayed away from applying again for a whole year lmao

[@_randombob]

my rejection process: I do all the prep just to choke on a phone interview and not be able to spitball a normal conversation thumbsup.jpg.

[@lucasteo5015]

at the end of the interview: "Hi do you hate your job?"

[@pb8655]

watching prime on 1.25 while he watches on 1.25 is such a mind fuck

[@astronemir]

Recruitment and hiring is broken. Companies that care should be spending money on current employee well being, lowering stress, increasing work life balance, making it culturally awkward to stay late at work, etc. Not focusing on paying more money for people to self masturbate in interviews whether as an interviewer or an interviewee. The easiest and best recruitment comes from employees that like where they work at and recommend it to their network.

[@joshyoerger5271]

Three quarters of the way in: “this guy clearly does not hire Arch users.” I’m dead. 💀

[@diogenes_of_sinope]

49:38 the name is parmigiana? Like the italian dish?

[@m4rt_]

4:25 some may have a bit of social anxiety :)

[@escapegulag4317]

would never work at those companies even if I had what it takes. I dont live to work, I work to live.

[@shaggyfeng9110]

I really like this type of contents. Well done sir.

[@meltygear5955]

Yep. I'm the "basement dwelling 30 year old" and it's so rare to reach the technical interview stage that, when it happens, I wish I've taken Xanax beforehand.

[@vaisakhkm783]

5:36 😂 prime got rejected from google... that's what this is

[@jazzymichael]

Is property look up in JavaScript really log n? How does that work?

[@R4ngeR4pidz]

The jordan peterson actually sounded like it was gonna be good, now I *need* to hear it

[@PurpleDaemon_]

What is the "zero day unix chroot break"?

[@LG51hacker]

After my unsuccessfull search of tech jobs I started my company and hired myself.

[@vincentyou266]

Amazing!

[@peterm.souzajr.2112]

8:17 ATF has entered the chat

[@rado147]

great reaction with helpful tips from the ❤

[@mohamedaityoussef9965]

18:28 prime you're scaring me bro, how did you know all this info about me (i'm not 30 tho)

[@anmolsharma4049]

Are you gonna just post reactions and clips of stream only?

[@jasonstoddard8071]

100% if I am told to write the API exactly like x, I lose all ability and motivation to innovate and create. especially after I write an api took a lot of time tasting different approaches, thorough test, and then told to write it different because an engineer doesn’t like it.

[@FaZekiller-qe3uf]

40:47 I don't have any.

[@O1012-u7q]

The use of “hiring manager” drives me crazy. The way it’s used makes people think that is a job description, instead of just being something every manager does.

[@lofipuddles]

For the algorithm 👑

[@Lukeisun7]

Why the cut at 13:45

[@therealPDOT86]

DrDisrespect of developers right here, Prime is THE goat of SWEtube.

[@olafbaeyens8955]

My advice: Avoid big companies at any cost. They are all failing and you lose your job again in the near future.

[@nathangwyn6098]

@ 18:30 I feel called out. Not nice.

[@Whatthetrash]

One of the things this interviewer said that really scared me is "Don't focus so much on the specifics of your language. They're going to be using a whole new stack in big tech anyway." Like... WHAT?! I spend *years* learning Python and then when you're hired they're like, "Well, we use C++ here." Well, just let me learn C++ then! I understand that there's always going to be adjustments, but I don't like the idea of "Throw away all that you know, we're going to learn a new system here. And if you can't keep up you're going to be fired." Like.... I don't like that at all. >_

[@Stefan-qk8sw]

Learn programming, not a language! And what do you mean with spending years learning python? You have used it for years maybe.

[@valentindegen]

Content creators not check-watching their output is almost as bad as devs pushing stuff through qa w/o checking out the actual piece of shaat they wrote on client...abysmal

[@Charles-sy7ej]

Are you Charlie Day?

[@varunrajput8083]

Does anyone feel Prime is SWE version of Dr DisRespect?

[@gkelly99]

if dr disrespect picked up coding instead of video games

[@YeetYeetYe]

Why is the guy in the video in such a tiny aparment

[@xapper10]

Let me cook

[@hawkingradiation3774]

can someone summarize? thank you xD

[@herrerkan]

Personal Story of mine, where I almost didn't get the Job because of the Recruiter. When I had an Interview at a company where my friend recommended me, the Recruiter said Im to young and unexperienced. I was very nervous at the interview. Im a Senior in regard of my IT Knowledge about computing, OS and Programming but self-taught and my own freetime projects. My Boss trusted her gut feeling and I got the Job 3 years ago. She later told me that she trusted her gutfeeling and Im now the Leading Software Dev of our Run Team and also doing Software Architecture. Im also helping our 40+ years old Devs (10+ years of experience) sometimes and teaching them and Im 28.

[@tanel982]

That System design book is a scam

[@TeslaExplorer]

tell me you have add without telling me you have it.

[@migsej]

hiring manager. I barely know her.

[@fruitypie]

Bun vs Rust pls

[@bribes_for_nouns]

what a load of bullshit. the guy literally contradicts himself platitude after platitude... no way I'd work there. I would stand up and say "too many psychological games not enough logic/coding/discussion of architecture" and walk out

[@RevMan001]

Utter side...

[@THEROOT1111]

This guy is full of bs exactly what you would expect for anyone on HR/Recruiting that believes he has a career. Tesla has the absolute minimum HR.... FOR A REASON.

[@osloyy]

your channel reminds me of sssniperwolf but for programming content instead of just tick tok what low effort content

[@juice2]

talking to bick tek recruiters makes me lose faith in humanity. I often get vibes of someone who is instructed to smile and act in a certain way, but in reality they hate their job, you personally and humanity in general.

[@secondary7978]

This guy has obviously interviewed and worked at just one company and has no idea what he's talking about here. Shame. Content is usually better.

[@abysmallytall]

Gere (like where) - guh - lay (I have a doctor with that name)

[@sokacsavok]

Not at all. It's more like ger-gei.

[@dirty-kebab]

György (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟørɟ]) is a Hungarian version of the name George. Some notable people with this given name: György Alexits, as a Hungarian mathematician.

[@DC-yw5yg]

gargaloygay

[@skaroeth]

The anxiety for an interview is 100% a lot higher when your back is up against the wall and you finally get a response after sending out 100 applications and feel like you have to make that interview count.

[@flarebear5346]

True, we need to find a way to have confidence and kind of not care that much. I haven't interviewed since starting school again but I used to get hired if I got an interview thanks to the fact that I walked into interviews just trying to have a conversation and treating it like a meet up to try and figure out if this "relationship" is the right thing

[@jamamohamed659]

Hopefully this is an exaggeration. 1/100 is crazy I’d have someone review my resume.

[@Hwyadylaw]

​@@jamamohamed659 1/100 is good if you don't have much experience

[@joshurlay]

If you send them out fast enough, 1 in 100 doesn't seem too weird. Sometimes it takes time for your resume to get in front of eyes.@@jamamohamed659

[@sweetphilly2]

Exactly how I was feeling in August after a 3 month hiatus. I was supposed to have something lined up by June to reenter the workforce in July or August. You can imagine how stressed I was

[@CerealOverdrive]

Google interviews are some of the most frustrating interviews out there. I was given a LITERALLY impossible problem. I said it was impossible, interviewer acted like I was wrong, spent 45 minutes trying to figure the math out, when I gave up I asked for the solution and was told it was off a website offering a million dollars for the solution!!! I failed the interview because my first reaction after analysis was to say I didn’t think it was solvable….

[@weaksauce9999]

If you solved it guess whose getting that million? And you probably still don't get an offer, or get stuck 12 months in team matching.

[@CerealOverdrive]

Probably would’ve been told I got it wrong so the interviewer could cash in. That said if I solved an impossible math problem in 1 hour I’d have no issues making money

[@rajat346]

Whats the website

[@YoutubeStandardLicense]

They look for sheep. They have only about 500 people in their R&D under alphabet. Everyone else they look for is someone who wont question things because they might spill the beans on unethical practices or damage the corporate brand. Google is an advertising company now. It used to be tech

[@marcialabrahantes3369]

you should have reported that to the recruiter

[@AustroPower]

Lol I am not that good of a developer, definitely not on Primeagen's level, but i feel that even though he is indeed a very smart programmer, he also has a good heart and gives people really good advice, i think a lot of people who are on the journey of becoming devs/programmers need to hear what he has to say. Take it easy :)..So thank you Primeagen 🙏

[@spaghettiking653]

I agree, the Primeagen is very wise and mature, and very kind. I love his thoughtful takes on everything.

[@AustroPower]

Exactly 🙂

[@jonbikaku6133]

Simp

[@PiratePawsLive]

So true what Prime says. Back in my noob days I was bushy tailed and blue eyed, trying to impress my boss. What I didn't know was that the boss was a ruthless person and gladly had me working until I broke. He did just little by little, add more tasks and cut back on deadlines. It was a creeping process but in the end I even worked at one time 24h in the office with 1x 30min break, and regularly 10h a day. Burnouts are a bitch... after my physical and mental health deteriorating to the point that it would not function anymore I finally quit. And it was the best decision of my life, together with the resolve to not take shit from anyone in future companies and say NO (Within reason ofc). If you even just take 1 thing from my long post, let it be this: "YOUR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IS PARAMOUNT, YOU CAN'T WORK IF YOU ARE DISABLED OR DEAD!"

[@alexdegaston422]

So, now you're a Used Programmer? A lot of Body Shops sell Used Programmers to IT Hiring Managers.

[@WillWillWill]

Interview question: if you are watching ThePrimeTime at1.25x and he's watching at 1.25x, at what speed are you watching the underlying video.

[@ThePrimeTimeagen]

i like money

[@sonicfind]

1.5625x

[@WillWillWill]

i like turtles @@ThePrimeTimeagen

[@WillWillWill]

I should have said "wrong answers only" 😆 @@sonicfind

[@PaulSebastianM]

1 x 1.25 x 1.25

[@josevargas686]

This is exactly why I am trying to get into freelance, egotistical employees gatekeeping the job just because they want to feel good about themselves and not because they care about the product. They want your priorities to be, in this order: #1 praise their persona, #2 do the job kind of right. Of course, if you need a job, you gotta play the part, but it sucks.

[@mohamedaityoussef9965]

3:35 prime forgetting to turn off alerts never gets old lol, just the visible frustration i can't 😂

[@mohamedaityoussef9965]

33:42 i'm 19 and i'm expected to carry a family of 5 in a third world country, with no higher education( because its either shit and/or expensive) and there aren't many junior developer jobs here so they only go to CS grads. my only hope is remote work and for a company to hire you internationally you either have to be extremely good and/or extremely cheap 😕

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

Your honesty shouldn't go unappreciated. 👍

[@cesardiaz1925]

tell your interviewer they are handsome

[@JulianAndresGuarinReyes]

The reason - THE ONLY REASON - I follow you - WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS MR. Primeagean - is because of your empathy. That's WHY I follow and listen. You are a master of empathy: "Tell HONEST answers, don't need to sound great and polished.", I think that's the best advice I ever heard in this stupid positive industry (that I love btw). Respect to you sir.

[@ckronenwetter]

If I had a nickel the number of times I was told the recruiter was wrong about something, or that the manager was surprised the recruiter had not followed up with me, or the recruiter was supposed to have given me something to prep for an interview that I didn't have, or went on vacation in the middle of scheduling I'd have four nickels. But since those 4 nickels were within the same interview process it was really frustrating.

[@rocstar3000]

28:23 Uhhh... I'm an arch user... wtf is this "first date" you're talking about? Is it the Unix Epoch, aka January 1st, 1970?

[@Andrewosm]

I received an email asking for feedback on their recruitment process. However, the issue is that they never responded to my job application; they ghosted me. That was quite an experience.

[@stubb1qaz]

Yes, you can have a good interview with a rejection. When I interviewed for a quant software job we bilaterally agreed that their heavy development process might not be the best fit for my work style and I discussed that openly with the hiring managers - I finished with: Im willing to give it a shot but you know your company and your environment best, you make a decision. Based on their experience, people who follow my work style were not comfortable at their role so ultimately it was a rejection. Likely for the best of both of us. When they asked me to review their process I pointed out a bunch of mistakes - overlapping interview questions, things that were very confusing, no interviewer was prepared enough to validate my claims etc. However, for that you need a mature and professional behavior of both the interviewers and the job seeker. Once you interview 20+ times, you can tell a good interview process from a bad one. For instance, at Microsoft, the interviewer first apologized for the questions he is going to ask explaining that's the HR requirement and that he is embarrassed he needs to do that. It kinda reflects on the organization as a whole.

[@annaczgli2983]

Each year a new interview bible comes out. Watch while this gets copied by everyone, & every interviewer gets asked, "Well, how do YOU test?" by every interviewee, & we're all back to square one. 😅

[@TheMetadude]

"Not all engineers are good in the interviewing space ...." hahahaha - You Thunk ! ? In fact many good engineers are crap at both being interviewers and being interviewees

[@Brunoenribeiro]

20:03 this is the hottest tip in this video. If you hate Musk, check interviews with Yoshitaka Amano (famous illustrator) or Satoru Iwata (former Nintendo president). They take more than just one second to reply... and you can see the value that brings to their answers. Western cultures tend to not respect this time, so saying out loud that you're thinking is key. It'll help a lot.

[@sharoncohen318]

In my interviews I asked a bunch of questions like, "here is this thing that I think is done super shitty at my current job, how do you guys do it and is it any better?" Obviously not asked in that way, but asking these pointed questions 1. shows interest 2. shows that you have experience w these things (doing code reviews, deployments, CI, unit tests, whatever it is) 3. helps you sus out if this is a company/team you want to work at. The best way to approach it is act like you're doing a 1on1 with your current manager... while realizing obviously they don't know you and you need to fill in some context of what you've worked on.

[@classyboy2000]

Can anyone link to an Elon Musk interview of the type Prime is talking about?

[@old_penguin]

good insight from gargoyle

[@jaimec4536]

As someone who has been on an engineering interview panel, an underrated piece of advice is to try and connect to your interviewers. We'll take notes on how you answered questions, but at the end of a long interviewing day, the real question is, "Do I want to work with this person and have them on my team? Would I enjoy hanging out with this person in the office while problem solving?" Candidates who are able to establish a friendly connection by the end of the interview are more likely to be selected for the role than someone who merely just answers all the questions correctly.

[@pb8655]

18:30 this shows an insane level of empathy from you.

[@ravenecho2410]

I felt, i couldnt even write a dict for a lookuo in python bc my nerves, im happy ive stayed at company, im now in R&D, in genai, yes i know "silly" but we got a really great solution for Natural langiage to sql to natural language. I can solve asts, if input in calculator and addition vs multiply isnt in pemdas. But im way mlre concerned how to test non-dete r ministic outcomes and scale said solution, unkt vs end 2 end.... the questions seemed silly, think i was in an svd projection phase and linear programming, and visualisation.... Idk i hate i dont get prep time for the interview, give me 2 months and ill kill it, i did actuarial, why they expect me to like quad tree some shit, i never even knew what an ast before i knew i would need it. I dont care about that shit. Why would i?

[@bbsonjohn]

I am more interested in interviewing than getting the job.

[@pickledparsleyparty]

Wait is "hiring manager" a full-time role? I thought it was what a regular manager is called by HR while they're hiring people for their team.