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.

[@ThisIsStrikeZone]

"So you wanna be a software engineer at Google?"

[@jayadas8912]

Got the same ad. She triggers my anxiety somehow😂

[@jonathandaniel7321]

working at google is worse than working for hitler

[@kentwong3818]

@TECOC341 Pawan Nirpal she's actually the dude's gf/wife, but yeah it's obviously done intentionally.

[@MrUltrakitsch]

Oh man... that *ucking ad is killing me. What about NO cuz I have a life and I avoid like the plague working with toxic big tech (or small tech that think they are big) compagnies? Like if working for Google was the dream of every developers.

[@manjunathmmp]

Dude I literally got this ad after finishing this video 🤣🤣🤣

[@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.

[@paulburger9904]

The worst part of Software Engineering are the interviews.

[@benkipling5260]

+1

[@taresy6789pp]

@@benkipling5260 you mean worst part is coding itself

[@bdjeosjfjdskskkdjdnfbdj]

unpopular opinion: i actually enjoy swe interviews!

[@benkipling5260]

@@bdjeosjfjdskskkdjdnfbdj Want to do mine? lol

[@darellarocho5729]

@@benkipling5260 Where are you interviewing at?

[@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.

[@umessi10]

"I've never seen this problem in my life" 😂😂😂😂 I can't

[@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.

[@greatbullet7372]

@@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

[@SM-ok3sz]

Friendly reminder that unlimited PTO is a scam. Employees with unlimited PTO take less PTO on average and since you don’t earn PTO, the company doesn’t have to pay it out when you leave.

[@johnschmuff9994]

Exactly! Nice comment addition to the video.

[@LauraMooreShay]

So true! Like the video mentioned, companies that offer it usually demand too much of a time commitment so employees can’t actually take advantage of it.

[@monzerfaisal3673]

What do you mean by "you don't earn PTO" I don't understand. Thanks

[@appio4345]

@@monzerfaisal3673 They don’t keep track of how much PTO you have, so when you leave they just pay you ‘zero’ PTO

[@Nnm26]

What's PTO?

[@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 😂

[@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.

[@Darkstorm12321]

He's lucky one of the eight easy leetcode problems he did was that one

[@danielzaiser]

I can't do that one 😭

[@stuartdparnell]

Did trees before. Crazy but you know what's crazier? Managing nested for loops for every single iteration as the program runs in real time.

[@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

[@meable3763]

"Produce a sorting algorithm with a big O of n(1)"

[@user-uj2mt6nv2g]

Well that's easy, just use radix

[@jakubswistak8003]

Bogosort is n(1) at best

[@feritperliare2890]

@@jakubswistak8003 he said big o which means worst case in which case you don't even try classifying bogosort the best you could achieve is counting sort already knowing what numbers exist in the array and that they simply grow by 1 as the name suggest it's a counting sort and I don't think it's possible to achieve something in big o better than this

[@R3lay0]

@@feritperliare2890 Big O doesn't mean worst case...

[@R3lay0]

@@jakubswistak8003 Bogosort is O(n) bestcase because you still need to check that it is in order.

[@udaybhaskar8439]

Policy of not giving feedback 😆

[@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.

[@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.

[@joshuawedekind3903]

OMG. This is so realistic, it actually gave me anxiety. This is exactly like virtually every tech interview I've ever had. Except no one spoke the truthful bits out loud.

[@Dribbles88]

That was me at western digital, felt burned out after the 4th one. Ended up questioning life after everything was over. LMAO

[@techwizard4991]

The worst part of long tedicious unessecary interviews is that you would have wasted an entire day if you fail them

[@lorenzo4819]

It's never wasted, just more practice for useless problems that have no real intrinsic value

[@definitelynotafamousyoutub6131]

@@lorenzo4819 that's somthing my recruiter would say to start again

[@macobuzi]

And you also waste your PTOs if you are still working in a company.

[@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?

[@SolidousMdz]

Be told to prepare for live coding to solve simple algos. Then at the interview, you have 30 minutes to write a whole week solution using their default template that is hosted in google drive with instructions over a jpg. Good stuff.

[@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

[@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"

[@GothamWRizz]

This is gonna get millions of views over the next few months

[@user-nz5bq]

Hello too!

[@_veselin_5048]

No

[@BlumChoi]

Is now the future?

[@gumbo64]

237k is pretty good too

[@Cowtymsmiesznego]

hi

[@jaydaba]

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

[@DanaYi13]

damn the accuracy of this, entertaining, loved it!

[@DRdarktnt]

The job I recently accepted involved a 30 minute introductory chat to get a feel for each other and 1 hour technical interview to understand your communication, thought process and coding style. The most I had to do was make a console application call a class that was based of an interface to print the count of its items. They made the process feel wonderful and whilst I enjoyed the coding challenges for other interviews (offline challenge with online discussion) these guys focused more on the person than the task which was so refreshing. It felt like the right choice however, only time will tell.

[@konno_donnoi7851]

name? and how is it going now?

[@ApeSheet387]

^^

[@stormy1514]

tell us

[@MatejMachac]

first interview of six... the most relatable part. It gets even better with "full remote" companies where it takes 5 interviews and 3 coding tasks to realize they don't have insurance and taxes figured out. Gotta love that.

[@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

[@BangMaster96]

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

[@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 😂

[@cass_666]

Omg, the feels. If this is really how it is, I'm going to die interviewing when it's my turn. The HR person in me is crying.

[@centripetal8865]

Hey don’t you go to Texas State !? XD

[@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.

[@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". 😂😭😂

[@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.

[@lemoonadee]

This makes me feel sad😭 I will have to go through this shit one day and the worse part is this is my dream😭

[@yurrrfrombk4039]

U and everyone else 😂

[@garagavia]

If you're good at coding you will get hired no problem.

[@kingnip5510]

If being an employer is your dream your not dreaming high enough

[@potto1488]

@@garagavia nah bruh you could create your own language, code another language on it and use that to make AI generated CPU designs, but if you fail fizzbuzz... you're not hired.

[@DhavalShukla]

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

[@josephwong2832]

hahaha that was good!! love the curb your enthusiasm music at the end

[@adityasomasundaram8841]

Dude ur videos r awesome have been binging for past 2 weeks!!

[@atulkumartiwari8113]

That thing about giving feedback is so true!!!

[@coldcloudmedia2106]

Man, this is so on point. Experienced this frustration today. The thing about being asked questions that has nothing to do with the job: It's happened every single time in my 20 years as a developer.

[@StringsnNotes]

Man you nailed it!!! Precisely what I've been wondering what it's like to be an interviewer

[@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

[@prajnabahuguna249]

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

[@bitbyte8177]

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

[@nick.karimi]

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.

[@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

[@barackobama5867]

Love how the guy has stack overflow in background

[@joseulissescastro4883]

The best part is when the interviewier dont work in tech, so when he/she asks you to describe your previous experiences and projects, most of the time you talk about tech stuff and the interviewier is like "Wait what is CRUD?"

[@angelg3642]

bruh legit

[@KevinNaughtonJr]

the laptop on the box was a great touch

[@echonabin]

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

[@pradiplamsal1403]

Great one, man. Keep it up.

[@DanielGuzman31]

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

[@harshpanwar1550]

Love u Man😂😂😂😂...Much better than many comedy shows...🤣🤣🤣.....

[@codelogic2026]

Nice video!! Good to see videod like that

[@Iamjoelangel]

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

[@samratsinghrathore730]

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

[@artiom2956]

Hilarious! Thanks man.

[@harshpanwar1550]

The way u said 'HUH' in the begging after bananas line is superb🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rogfromthegarage8158]

Nailed it, especially the part about why they would ask a question about something they never use.

[@chadguru9565]

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

[@viniciuscardoso5271]

your videos are amazing and pretty realistic keep-on-making-videos

[@frostydog860]

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

[@kakarotsan3030]

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

[@DraxTheDestroyer]

Says something about human humour

[@johnschmuff9994]

This is hilariously accurate!!

[@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!

[@Shiroyashasama]

This is gonna age well! Might be back once I start applying for jobs

[@kashifmalhan4384]

I laughed so hard at the end part, because that's accurately describes my situation that I am currently in

[@Gohel95]

WTF😂😂 You just nailed it..

[@elementz301]

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

[@suchetanandy298]

This is so so relatable

[@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

[@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). :-)

[@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.

[@chadkrause6574]

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

[@krtirtho]

"You definitely gonna need them....in the next interview" ~ Invert Binary Tree

[@himquantum]

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

[@enxuhan3929]

Tech companies nowadays: build a rocket during the interview; tighten the screws at work.

[@irfanmehmood3352]

Great content!

[@jonathanrivera6871]

I feel called out... i just had 3 interviews yesterday lol

[@zachgoll]

This is way too real 😂😂😂😂

[@umessi10]

This was hilarious!

[@TheScienceGuy10]

As a Physics major, my coding skills include importing numpy and matplotlib.

[@ishaangupta4125]

Loved the CYE theme at the end

[@trikto9120]

Awesome video 😂😂😂

[@Jaronut]

1:03 that simple chuckle killed me for no reason😂

[@Cerberus8771]

This is accurate. If the hiring process is intense then the pay better be good and work should be just as exciting. If you have to go through such an intense hiring process all for subpar pay and work that is nowhere near that level then leave. You deserve better.

[@jameswagner1490]

That's a real video, please more

[@ruffhouse9760]

T SHIRT IS FIYAAAA, hi-chews are the best

[@pratikthorat3480]

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

[@avishekbiswas4121]

You are such a great actor that I thought there was 2 people

[@tecnologiaperilpianeta1280]

You are very competent

[@tomjones8293]

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

[@jjmandeville]

So accurate. Just. SO. Accurate!