If Coding Interviews Kept It Real

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[@KeepOnCoding]

Have you experienced any of this at your coding interview? Also, join us on Discord: discord.gg/ypFyyWq

[@CodingWorm]

hope u get the job

[@ishikaverma3512]

I was watching this video somehow just one minute before interview with Microsoft yesterday! Totally relatable.

[@mier-kd6id]

No im only 17

[@quarantinelife.]

This interview looks like Amazon interview lmao

[@kiasta1]

Lmfao yesterday I just had a coding assessment for Amazon... and it was a couple of challenges to do with Binary Trees. It was a little more complex than this question, however.

[@samuelmiller]

Free bananas? I'm totally in

[@klevialushi571]

Ahahhahahah yeah, same here 😂😂😂😂😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnXFhJd4Za2ejbs

[@enforc3rr]

Chintu eats Bananas all-time , probably that's the reason why he's sooo good

[@mukundathakur5097]

He is talking about the fruit, not the dick.

[@clemenskotoku]

😂

[@zadintuvas1]

That's what you get in a code monkey position.

[@alexsantar]

The beginning of this video triggered my anxiety 😂

[@starkxz]

Dude, he scared me even I have no interviews in the mean time 😥

[@reyariass]

Me too! I didn’t even know I had an anxiety trigger! I was really rooting for the guy! Thinking, “just pleaasssee don’t stand up in the middle of the call” thinking it would be a video call

[@insertoyouroemail]

same

[@hamzasaber880]

Hhhhhh same here

[@DanielH212MC]

I'd laugh but I probably shouldn't laugh at anxiety disorders, you have my sympathy man.

[@navalhasan4831]

This is first of 6 interviews. So damn true. They always do many rounds and repeat same questions but another person. And after the final round they will tell you that your profile and performance is good, But unfortunately the company is looking for a bit more skilled person. ~ Although you’ve answered all the questions correctly ~ These crazy people

[@alexwindy3]

When that happens they are basically just fishing for a genius sclave. They want someone who could easilly work for any top company and keep trying untill they find someone that clearly outshines everyone else.

[@TylerRaber]

This is why you don't do free work. If it's not than a couple 30 minute talks, it gets paid.

[@PflanzenChirurg]

@@alexwindy3 or they are just a paid construct to torn u appart..

[@sharizart]

So fuckng true

[@aindatenhoconta]

...or a less skilled (and therefore less costly)...

[@bosteador]

Interviewers be like: We use trees all the time Me: No, mister. Nested Javascript objects don't count as trees.

[@azufendusgarendum6583]

@Noor Wachid whether it's heap allocated or not doesn't affect it being a tree

[@magnushoklandhegdahl1218]

Why are you gatekeeping a data structure? If it's a connected graph with n-1 edges it's a tree. So unless you have any extra references going here and there in the nested ja objects they are trees

[@nahfamimgood]

@Noor Wachid wtf does that have to do with it being a tree or not?

[@MubashirAR]

"We use stacks all the time" "Oh great! What kind of problems have you solved with stacks?" "Ohh no I mean we use he JS stack"

[@shikhartiwari854]

If I am not actually creating trees, I don't care whether new objects are stored in heaps or bananas

[@HelplessGazellle]

Software Development: the only career field that requires you to work on unpaid personal projects before you enter the field. Imagine a surgeon interview: "do you ever do any surgeries for free in your basement?" Garbage man: "tell us about the times you've driven around collecting trash from strangers."

[@subhamroy8817]

Sales interview: "so how often do you call up your family and friends and make them buy useless stuff?"

[@atheosmachina]

Not quite true, artists, writers, actors, really anything creative requires unpaid portfolio work.

[@Sergeeeek]

Driving a garbage truck requires being able to drive

[@HelplessGazellle]

@@Sergeeeek sure, just like software development requires you to know programming, but garbage men postings don't ask how often you drive in your free time.

[@HelplessGazellle]

@@atheosmachina I dont really consider software developers as necessarily creative. It's more like engineering where you use the tools available to you to meet the product requirements.

[@marcspataru]

This is so accurate. I just passed an interview and a separate long coding challenge. I have 3 45 minutes to 1 hour interviews scheduled on Friday. If I pass those, I will have 2 other interviews. This is all just for one job. Summs it up really

[@archanadanappa6868]

I too had to clear six freakin rounds to get my job so I feel your pain man😪

[@OnceABustAlwaysABust]

I once went through 7!!!!! interviews and then rejected their offer. They were pissed but so was I after seeing the salary

[@diogeneslantern18]

@@archanadanappa6868 I'm just starting coding and you're all stressing me out 😢

[@RaytheonNublinski]

@@OnceABustAlwaysABust Salary should be on the job listing. But no it’s not because what do you only work for money? Um yes otherwise I would just get high and watch the matrix all day.

[@Sean17lol]

Atlassian?

[@ghosthookcc2050]

the interviewer having a stackoverflow tab open on how to invert a binary tree is just too good for some reason 😂

[@ycombine1053]

I remember the first time I actually had a problem at work that could take advantage of using trees and a doubly linked list. Used algebraic data types in typescript to implement it. It was beautiful. I felt like a real computer scientist. Never happened again...

[@grenadespoon]

Haha so true. The recent quote that I read was “No industry treats their potential employees so bad.”

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

tech people love to whine alot. At least you get payed way above average

[@richardberner585]

@@maythesciencebewithyou Is not like the skills needed for it comes from the sky. And having high criteria is not same as unfair treatment.

[@MichaelBattaglia]

Being someone went through 20 rounds of interviews over the past 6 months I can say that this interview is 100% accurate!

[@KillerPojo12]

I'm getting there. (digital marketer)

[@Neopitpit]

Same for me, it is crazy

[@flowerofash4439]

Well at least you got some calls, unlike some who just get ignored Some = me

[@carlitos4505]

“...you even bought a copy of CTCI, even though you never used it.” I feel attacked

[@ImranKhan-by2nb]

Yeah WTF. This guy is spying on me.

[@jrkdigital]

Have an interview in 40 minutes, this is way to relatable.

[@ashlostbones]

I hope it went well man

[@jrkdigital]

@@ashlostbones It went way better than the past few have been. Thanks!

[@dejangegic]

@@jrkdigital keep us posted

[@vinade2100]

What have you been asked before and now? Did you get ?

[@lonelee3827]

@@jrkdigital so what's the word?

[@dissonantiacognitiva7438]

I always got asked the most irrelevant questions that had nothing to do with the job Getting interviewed by random dudes who's goal is to show off instead actually evaluating your skills

[@Beetless]

@Raph0ne you are the most beautiful man I have ever layed my eyes on

[@Beetless]

@Raph0ne it is...

[@Arthasgerdk]

Lol, had one interview where I first talked with the CTO where everything went super well; we discussed my previous work, coding patterns and principles related to my field etc. Then in round 2 I had to talk with a "senior engineer", who was super rude from the beginning, and kept asking me loosely worded trick questions about things which definitely weren't relevant to the actual development. I asked for him to clarify his questions (English wasn't his first language), and also wondered its relevance to the position, which was enough for him to eventually end the interview. Ended up not landing the job, but instead went to another place which did super well, so I'm super happy to have dodged that bullet 😄. I later met a friend who also interviewed for that place, and his experience was exactly the same.

[@DraxTheDestroyer]

@@Arthasgerdk Maybe you should let that CTO know about that "senior engineer", he sounds like a power tripping asshole

[@DraxTheDestroyer]

@@FlabbyTabby yeah that's also right

[@udaybhaskar8439]

Policy of not giving feedback 😆

[@brijpatel237]

"Invert a Binary Tree in PHP :-P"

[@noahmalchy2676]

I've had a bunch of interviews and never had DS&A questions, questions were more like make an API call or fix the broken code or just explain how data flows from FE->BE, maybe I'm lucky or more places are realizing how they're losing good employees by doing these types of interviews

[@xxCrazzbyxx]

Where are you interviewing lol I want these kinds of interviews

[@matc8085]

This type of crappy questions are the norm in bad USA companies.

[@chadkrause6574]

The complex interviews like sorting and other random stuff is certainly a turn off

[@isaacdestura7495]

I still have no clue what that means

[@UnknownSend3r]

As a noob taking the self-taught route, it didn't make sense why in interviews they would ask these DS&A questions if you're not going to be using them at work, then I started studying DS&A (or trying to) and I realised it's because it's a good measure of how you can convert your thoughts/ideas into code. Which is very important for a programmer.

[@geraldpheonix]

As a programmer am just laughing hard on the "you will use it in your next interview"

[@superchillh3o]

yea... this is pretty accurate. Although they're typically 5 - N minutes late

[@paulgasnier4545]

With N being an integer between 5 and 2 to the power of 32 xD

[@marcw6875]

So if N > 5, then they are negative minutes late? Does that make them early? haha

[@paulgasnier4545]

@@marcw6875 no they are 5 to N minutes late not 5 minus N 😂

[@BangMaster96]

You forgot the part where the say "Unfortunately, we have found a better candidate, and we will not be moving forward with you"

[@DhavalShukla]

This sounds angelic compared to given an advanced code when you've specifically mentioned you're a beginner for an internship. An internship!

[@darkcreeper4316]

Free potassium > Work-life balance

[@caesarcch3879]

Damn that was accurate, I almost started crying... P.S I actually had 2 interviews with 6 steps. On one I was rejected after the last interview because "the company recruits only highly motivated people". 😂😭😂

[@DanaYi13]

damn the accuracy of this, entertaining, loved it!

[@jaydaba]

" bought the cracking the code interview even though I never read it" I feel attacked😑 collecting dust on my bookshelf. Lol

[@structureandconquer]

I have recently been asked for making python script for generating html templates - job was done in 20 mins. On the second interview I passed 65 minutes test - 36/40. At the third interviewthey asked some question regarding Elasticsearch, docker, mongo. At the end these guys offered me IQ test. All of this was just for frontend developer position. Guess what I sent them as the answer.

[@quantumoverlord4413]

"You bought a copy of CTCI and never even used it" loool I also didnt even do the easy leetcode questions by myself...just copy pasted from online

[@pfigueiredoytb]

True! Using these stupid questions in the interviews really pisses me off...

[@Alireza1632]

Very accurate. Don't forget about friendly introduction and brutal rejection with no specific feedback

[@bitbyte8177]

I was laughing but became sad when I remember its my life.

[@kentwong3818]

I actually had to use tree traversal and basic recursion on my internship, like 2 months in on a 16 month internship. Implemented a basic python module to deserialize/serialize XML (element trees) and pick out the Tag, Value, and Attributes. It was to deal with SOAP. Why you might ask? Cause they refused to deal with 3rd party imports in their code, so they made me (the intern) reinvent the wheel.

[@someonerandom9939]

I'm worried about when I actually take an interview. I made a javascript interpreter in C++ without any 3rd party libraries and even did some operating system development as hobby projects. Except I royally suck at math and don't have every common algorithm embedded in my brain. I'm not even sure I'd even be considered for an interview at all given I never took any computer science courses or anything.

[@Eysvar]

Just a little copy here, little paste there. Hey look! I'm done 😆😆

[@dijoraj9522]

To be honest this kind of outsourcing of difficult work is quite common now man they really milk the interns well. Hope you got what you were due man (altho I doubt lol)

[@farrongoth6712]

Wait until you see the opposite side of that where all your expected to do is use other people code and glue it together, and your forced to even use broken packages either because your not allowed to reinvent the wheel or because package dependencies, working on your own roll is more often better than trying to hack around someone else. You will look back at this moment fondly. In your case is a bit strange cos SOAP is old XML Parsers are abundant. It can depend on the language as well. Edit: This isn't to advocate against library use but just wait until you see the other side.

[@kentwong3818]

@@farrongoth6712 there’s a few XML parsers but not in python and it had to be in python and all I had was standard lib. No imports. It also had to connect to our internal request serializer/deserializer. SOAP messages could be turned into well formed request objects within our system, and then fed to the final backend. So there was some custom work. Also wrote a WSDL generator that read off types on functions in python and generated a WSDL programmatically. That was fun and good use of functional programming skills I learned in University. Yeah I already look back at my intern days fondly and think “damn the days of 8 hours of uninterrupted development without a single fucking meeting - heaven” haha

[@himquantum]

I was asked fizzbuzz problem at LinkedIn. Interviewers think that this ONE question can differentiate good and bad coder !

[@kakarotsan3030]

This would be funny if it wasn't completely true...

[@DraxTheDestroyer]

Says something about human humour

[@stevez5134]

this is really accurate! I've done at least 8 leetcode easy problems now! that was hard! I'm not even sure they want me to ever build a UI or iOS application anymore the deeper I get into this stuff. and I bought that book too! things are way different from 10 years ago, in that, all companies have adopted the FANG interviews I can't get past. and the companies are making apps even more useless than 5 years ago! none of the companies I interviewed with 5 years ago are even around!

[@chadguru9565]

"Never seen this problem before in my life" is low-key the best advise in this video. I'll definitely use it

[@GuRuGeorge03]

Honestly my interview experience so far has been very different. people are very honest and open. the coding portion always made sense so far and I never felt like wasting my time. i guess i am lucky with the jobs that i apply to lol

[@echonabin]

Interviews title in video and here comes algo expert fly by with its interview ads 😂

[@LukePalmer]

Should be titled "If coding interviews were the way coding interviews are"

[@semlimi200]

Hey that's how prepared for the coding interview for my job too! 😂 Except I practiced 7 easy level Leetcode problems not 8 lol

[@elementz301]

Literally have a C++ interview coming up and am just gonna review trees lmao

[@anuragpthk]

I actually attended my attending a interactive coding session in short last month 😅😅😅

[@infimodeforever]

It happens specifically in lockdown 🤣🤣🤣

[@akhileshchandrapathak7276]

,😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tehonlygod]

"8 easy leetcode questions" why u gotta expose us like that? 😂

[@chadkrause6574]

“Unlimited PTO but I could only find time to take 3 days off” man that hits too close to home

[@KevinNaughtonJr]

the laptop on the box was a great touch

[@joshuaolian1245]

“invert binary tree” on stack overflow on interviewer’s monitor. lmao

[@koruspring1519]

Pretty true.. the only tree structure I know is in database indexing. In app server code we just use Hash table all the time. That stuff is faster and memory cost next to nothing anyway.

[@stevencvisuals]

Interviewer: you'll definitely be using it again also interviewer: at your next interview. BIG L's.

[@alphacentauri8035]

When you fuck it on the forth interview and start to realise you gonna go through this hell again 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@lainworld]

THE STACK OVERFLOW WINDOW ON THE BACKGROUND LOL

[@Iamjoelangel]

3:44 finally you discovered your gift in comedy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Poo1199-c1o]

Seen this video a hundred times, still cracks me up 😂😂😂😂

[@oldjiisan1866]

_"I' ve never seen this problem in my life"_

[@pratikkhadtale]

6 interviews soo true 😂😂😂

[@ruffhouse9760]

T SHIRT IS FIYAAAA, hi-chews are the best

[@luisurena1770]

I got 7 interviews by one company only to get rejected for the job A MONTH LATER, boys is hard out there, but do not loose hope💖

[@pratikthorat3480]

That expression in the end GOD DAYUM🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@samratsinghrathore730]

First of the six interview 😂😂 and the reaction 😂totally nailed it.

[@johnathoncrawford7610]

I felt attacked when he mentioned "Cracking the Coding Interview". I use it to make my monitor more at eye level xD

[@icoder9517]

You will definitely be using it again. The next time you interview 😂

[@baloney_sandwich]

He's in boxer and I'm in running short lol

[@tomjones8293]

0:26 this sound reminds of the Casting Couch interview 🤣

[@lancedolan]

I clicked expecting bait. What I found was GOSPEL!

[@kariminic]

This was so me yesterday. I messed when explaining how to implement an algorithm, I had to ask for feedback on my performance. Lucky enough, I was guided on areas I need to improve on.

[@curtis9701]

Im dying! "You did 8 problems on leetcode on easy difficulty and you even bought a copy of Cracking the Coding Interview" I did that this week for an interview!

[@supernintendo182]

Did you get the job?

[@curtis9701]

@@supernintendo182 They didn't even ask me to do any. And yes.

[@supernintendo182]

@@curtis9701 Was it a FAANG company or something else? You don't have to give me a company name if you don't want to.

[@zachgoll]

This is way too real 😂😂😂😂

[@ceddh15]

"You're gonna be so busy, you won't even have time to think about vacation" I'm dead 🤣

[@TechwithLaughter]

he looks like Buddy from Baby Driver lol

[@erenkamisama]

So that's how real life gonna be.!!

[@jonassteinberg3779]

"Is this still a good time?" Wuh? Uh no it's a bad time but I've only now just realized it...?

[@yungifez]

Im seeing invert binary tree in php What!!!!!!!

[@ChimezieMadukwe]

interviewer: searching how to invert a binary tree

[@weaver3636]

Meanwhile I couldn't even get an interview. Should I start lying about my skillset lmao

[@frostydog860]

Spot on! I died on the stock options, and died again on the unlimited PTO. 😂😭

[@tatyana7266]

This is awesome! It cracked me up! I am sad at the same time though because this is the true story of our life. (Who works as a dev will understand). :-)

[@DanielGuzman31]

This is awesome! couldn't be more realistic than that!

[@yashsolanki069]

that's the moment we prepare for in 4-year college degree.

[@insertoyouroemail]

Them: Looking forward to seeing you in the next interview. Me: Yeah, no worries. Oh and I'll send you an email if I find another job in between then and now.

[@vipulkumar6082]

0:20 chime rang 😂

[@skaterfugater]

the feedback one hit home.

[@SixDasher]

I hear he has the mechanical keyboard with obligatory cherry browns.

[@OhhNo-0]

Policy of giving feedback 😂😂😂

[@jameswagner1490]

That's a real video, please more

[@suchetanandy298]

This is so so relatable

[@ZT1ST]

@2:45; Oof - that was harsh. And totally true.

[@Ha-ue9kg]

This is literally how my Apple interviewer acted today

[@radoslawszymula6560]

JS objects are trees. All Object Models are Trees (sometimes Graphs). If you are clever with LeetCode its a sign that you might be clever in designing a clean Object Model

[@MrUks]

God damn I have... They've been on my list as red flags since the 2nd time it happened to me. I just ghosted companies that did that after that. It's a giant waste of time and they will not hire you

[@del6207]

If you see a problem you can't do, tell the interviewer that you've done the problem before -in the best case they might just change it. In the worst case you fail the interview but you were gonna fail anyway, so...

[@Ali-kf6jk]

"I have never seen this problem in my life" lol

[@thechosenone8523]

Mark my words *You will rise soon*

[@serred9452]

The worst part about getting hired for a software job is not whether your projects are impressive or that you know the stuff that you are applying but instead whether or not you can solve an algorithm question for 15 minutes lol

[@singularity1130]

I shit you not one of the requirements for a Frontend position included Rust. Got too the interview and they asked me my experience with Rust right out the gate. Told them it's primarily for compiling too web assembly and then asked me what my familiarity with blockchain is (not in the job posting). Interview we talked about React, Redux, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES5 and some Express/Nextjs. Provided some demo's to show basic responsive layouts, state management and api handling. The second dev who hasn't spoken till now pipes up and said "I talk way too much about frontend" and nothing else the entire interview. First Dev said I was a perfect fit if I could up my level of understanding for blockchain. Said out of all the other candidates my "Frontend talents were the best." Ghosted afterward, my guess the "Frontend Position" was a front to get anyone with Rust knowledge to magically know blockchain libraries.

[@ThereIsNoSpoon678]

I would have laughed so hard if the first phone call was about his cars extended warranty.

[@donaldwu2792]

omg so true, most companies ask tough questions, but they don't use it much and they use tough questions for interview...

[@optimistic_cynic]

This gives me flashbacks to Brooklyn 99's episode where Terry and Gina interview people but didn't use technical questions but more behavioral and related to the workplace environment/flow. That became my ideal interview. But alas, it is only an ideal currently T_T

[@MarkoFTW]

As an tech recruiter, this is horribly accurate.

[@gibraltarify]

This happens to me as well lol And sometimes its with an indian guy whos accent is so thick i barely understand him.

[@williamandre2984]

I think every single gag/sentence of this video is the exact opposite of my experience as a software dev.

[@joshkanyinda5569]

There’s no breaks because your job can be done anywhere at anytime if you have a computer, which the job gives you.

[@null_54]

This is the most accurate video on the internet.