How I Passed Google And Atlassian's Coding Interviews

I've recently been applying to a fair few internships and doing a lot of coding interviews. In the past few months, I've successfully passed interviews with Google, Atlassian and Optiver. I decided to accept Atlassian's offer and will be interning there at the end of this year.
In this video I discuss my strategies for preparation, resources I used and my thoughts on coding interviews in general. By following the advice in this video you'll have everything you need to get started preparing for coding interviews with large tech companies - so whether you're a student, looking for a new role or just curious, this video will set you on the right path!
-- Timestamps --
0:00 Intro
1:22 My experience
2:15 Google, Atlassian & Optiver's interview processes
3:34 Coding challenges vs technical interviews
4:37 How to prepare
8:02 How to prepare... even more
11:15 Other considerations
12:53 Mindset
13:40 Thoughts on coding interviews
-- Resources mentioned --
Cracking the Coding Interview: crackingthecodinginterview.com
Abdul Bari's KZbin channel: / @abdul_bari
Competitive programmer's handbook: cses.fi/book/book.pdf
AlgoExpert: algoexpert.io (you can find discount codes online)
Leetcode: leetcode.com
HackerRank: hackerrank.com
TopCoder: topcoder.com
CodeChef: codechef.com
CodeForces: codeforces.com

[@66IOU3]

Cheers, Patrick. I loved your bit on mindset. It's often overlooked in this type of educational content. I'm happy to share that it helped me land a software engineering role at Atlassian!

[@PatrickB1111]

Awesome, thanks for sharing! And yeah mindset is super important, it's not something you can compartmentalise

[@recursion.]

That mindset basically is like telling homeless people to go get a job. Easier said than done.

[@hubushki]

You're a beast my guy. I'm in Melbourne and doing an internship at Akuna this summer, we had a similar idea with the free trip to Sydney😅

[@PatrickB1111]

Good stuff! Akuna, IMC and Optiver all look like great places to work

[@TechwithLucy]

Welcome back! 😁

[@PatrickB1111]

Thanks Lucy, it's good to be back 🤙🏻

[@lungilengidi3972]

Congratulations 👏

[@liftandshiftdev3222]

Believe me. The more experience you get in software engineering, especially in Australia. Algo becomes less and less important. In fact, I start suggest changing the way my company interview people. I recommend more practical coding exercise like OOP design , system design where people can freely talk about solutions and trade off. I found its more effective to evaluate whether a candidate is solution oriented, decision making, articulate and logical reasoning

[@andrewkeith80]

This is very true. I am a 20 year veteran writing software. I would rather have a developer know how to use numpy, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel by memorizing algorithms in python

[@nilesh7158]

Congratulations

[@mrinalmadhav8119]

How did u applied for optiver and tell their interview experience

[@petersu4869]

What a legend

[@diggitydingdong]

Hey mate, how'd the internship go?

[@PatrickB1111]

It was really good - very interesting company with a lot of cool stuff going on. Definitely achieved my goal of understanding a large tech co from the inside.