How I Cracked the Google Coding Interview (from unemployment)

[@NeetCode]

🚀 neetcode.io/ - I created a FREE site to make interview prep a lot easier, hope it helps! ❤

[@joelpww]

As a mostly self taught programmer I appreciate this structure alot

[@whonayem01]

Thanks for creating. I am following your sheet. Solved 44 already.

[@jordanleslie5903]

Its soooooo helpful. Thanks! I've been breaking it down further into other patterns to practice like prefix sum

[@morenomt27]

Thank you! I am going to be interviewed this Friday :)

[@NeetCode]

@@morenomt27 Good luck!!

[@tyrone1060]

It's crazy that a recruiter left the founder of Neetcode waiting for 3 months.... they should've hired you on the spot. Anyone with this much sincerity and willingness to share their knowledge deserves the absolute best in life. Thank you for all that you do, we look forward to your next videos.

[@ZelenoJabko]

Good that you are not making hiring decisions. Leave that to the professionals and mins your own business

[@griffinmfalme4674]

@@ZelenoJabko hAha don't be too harsh lol

[@EE12345]

no offense but this would be pretty unrealistic lol

[@ssj4rit]

Due to leetcode + your videos I was able to get a Google offer. I start this summer. Thanks so much!

[@NirmalSilwal]

congrats

[@Untitled0078]

You are so good!

[@nokibulislam9423]

good freaking job man . can i talk to you somehow? i have got some ,very few questions

[@kingofhiskingdom4616]

@@nokibulislam9423 just practice until your day comes.

[@soulvocals3474]

Congratulations bro..👍

[@mattjin1283]

just got an offer from google/FB/amazon recently. These videos are super helpful. Thanks for everything you do!

[@NeetCode]

Congrats!!!!! And best of luck!

[@sreejitchatterjee4438]

Hi Matt, could you please help me with a contact of the HR who interacted with you for this role?

[@dataintech99]

Hi...,I'm learning python and DSA . What should I do to place myself in MAANG? (I'm not graduated yet)

[@gmh14]

Just got an offer from Google; I'm joining their Mountain View office! Thanks to your videos, I actually bonded with one of my interviewers because we'd both watched them for our preps!

[@avinashauthipudi4497]

Neetcode, a heartfelt thank you for posting these videos and helping me prepare for my interviews. I secured a dream offer from Meta recently. I cannot explain the extent to which your videos have helped me understand and prepare for my interviews! Thank you so much once again!

[@DBZMacky]

Came to get good at simple coding problems, stayed for the inspirational tale of a man's journey to escape Neetdom. Congratulations and best of luck for your career!

[@hil449]

What's neetdom?

[@vinaynb63]

@@hil449 NEET - Not in Education, Employment, or Training

[@talbenjo4841]

@@vinaynb63 oh my god. I for some reason thought it was neat code all along and just a simple spin off leetcode, this is hilarious

[@Pablo-br9mc]

I've just got an offer from Microsoft and I really need to thank you. During my preparation I spent a lot of hours watching your videos and they were absolutely helpful. Thank you so much!

[@NirmalSilwal]

congrats

[@kanukaushal7792]

hey! congratulations, i actually do competetive programming too and i am very intrested to hear from your side on how ya got in one of the biggest companies, Microsoft (its one of my dream companies lol)

[@Pablo-br9mc]

@@kanukaushal7792 Well in my case, I use CTCI, Leetcode, System Design Interview book and Grokking Algorithms for preparation. Also, I prepared the behavioural interview learning the core values of microsoft. Finally and most important, apply to the position that you want. Thank you!

[@kanukaushal7792]

@@Pablo-br9mc woah! thanks for ur advice, sorry for replying late since i barely use my email. Thanks again.

[@kanukaushal7792]

@@Pablo-br9mc Hey also, i havent really decided what position I am best in. How should i decide? also if you dont mind then may i know your position?

[@northernlights176]

This is solid advice right here. Believe in yourself and trust the grind. Will, perseverance, strategy, and execution.

[@nirvikdas619]

I had an interview recently and I pretty much got rolled over by everything that I was asked except for the technical questions. I was surprised by how fast I was able to solve them after practicing a lot of Leetcode problems from your website. So thanks a bunch!

[@berkouklahcene2594]

Good luck for other interviews, soft skills and that bullshit is easy to acquire, or at least pretend, technical stuff is what separates you from the rest

[@moomoocow526]

@@berkouklahcene2594 inaccurate take. Soft skills of very high importance. Plenty of people meet the coding bar

[@mobaisi13]

@@moomoocow526 soft skills can come naturally to a lot of people. But technical skills must always be learned

[@yonahgraphics]

I can understand when you say you were scared the interviewer would think you already knew the question. Your explanations are crystal clear, even for very hard problems

[@omarzakaria7572]

@Neetcode, wanna know something absolutely crazy? I watched this video the day it came out, in between interview 3 and 4 at Google. I got the offer. Your videos on all the different concepts helped me so much. Thank you.

[@alanik222]

Thanks for all your work Neetcode! Your videos have been the single best resource when preparing for my Google interviews. Thanks to you, I was able perform well during my onsite and get an offer! Will be starting in the summer right after I graduate from university :)

[@NeetCode]

Congratulations 🎉🎉 and good luck!!

[@Dysfunctional704]

You've helped me gained the confidence to crack the interview at a big tech I've wanted to work with! All thanks to you!

[@samng1094]

I have been watching and practising with your video while preparing for an interview with amazon. I had no confidence at all in the beginning and I am now going into the final round next week! All thanks to you! Your video helped me a lot!

[@samng1094]

update: I just received an offer for SDE!!!!!!! All thanks to you!

[@eddieh7962]

These videos helped me a ton to get an internship there. Thank you Mr Neetcode

[@spiritual5750]

for someone who is unemployed currently this video definitely feels a ray of hope.

[@candaceleach2981]

I went through the same interview process with Google (went straight to onsite due to being interviewed in the past). Thought I did well but got the close but no cigar. Gotten better since a friend recommended your channel.

[@muzammilchowdhury3860]

What kind of questions did they ask you on the on-site ?

[@candaceleach2981]

@@muzammilchowdhury3860 similar to what NeetCode mentioned on this video. I did have coding problems similar to LeetCode but with some modifications and one that was not even on Leetcode. I didn't have any system design problem (probably because I was going for an L4 SWE role). All the problems I had were medium based.

[@nathancheng4526]

I got an offer from Microsoft thanks to you. Your videos are amazing, thanks neetcode!

[@mightyshenanigans2607]

Currently on HC. I wouldn't be able to get this far on the process if not for this channel. Thanks for all the videos and explanations!

[@JuanPabloDjeredjian]

What's HC?

[@LockingIn-j9q]

@@JuanPabloDjeredjian Hiring Committee

[@matthewzhang7330]

Congrats man! I started watching your video since last September, and I also got into google as a ng and will start in June! Your video helped me a lot! Thank you! ps: the google hiring process is definitely very stressful

[@swapanmandal191]

I am interested to go google

[@swapanmandal191]

Plz suggest me how to prepare and how to apply

[@DevMaster947]

Congrats Man!!. I finished my interviews with Google last month but couldn't get through it. I'll have to try again after 6months. But it was really best interview experience for me. Keep rocking........

[@tbag4justice707]

Been watching your videos from past 2-3 months . Got to say they are they best explained out there and Happy to witness your progress and hope to get same one day

[@austin4855]

8:00 Making sure that they watch you write out the instructions and voluntarily correct you was a really helpful tip, thank you. I have always had difficulty paying attention to auditory instruction (traditional lectures, podcasts, etc are utterly useless to me). No issue whatsoever with written instructions or videos with captions that I can read, or at bare minimum, a recording that I can replay as many times as I need. Getting a spoken coding prompt that I have to interpret, possibly over a phone, and possibly with a strong accent, is my worst nightmare interview scenario.

[@AnkitaNallana]

Thank you for saying this - this is also me :( I HATE spoken prompts, part of it is probably coz i have hearing loss but written problems help me so much. The worst is : spoken prompt, thick accent, camera off

[@charleshe4887]

Happy for you from China! And thank you so much for explaining things in a clear and easy to understand way.

[@jennifert5016]

Love your videos! Thanks for the tips and transparency! So happy for you!

[@chillegaming8250]

Hi. Congratulations and Thank you. Your videos helped me a lot when I was preparing for my interviews. I recently passed Meta Interviews and your channel played a big role in that journey.

[@gabbarsingh6562]

I was unemployed continuously for 4 years of my engineering in IIT and then got into google after that.

[@jeremyliang7159]

Thanks for sharing your interview experience! I have to say I am experiencing the same situation right now. I had an interview last week and was able to tackle both problems very quickly. But then the interviewer asked me if I could do some optimization (not time and space complexity but reduce the lines of code) and I didn't come up with the answer he wanted at the end. I am still waiting for their decision and I feel like its also a 50-50 game for me. Hopefully I can get it. Job hunting is just so frustrating lol.

[@gnanyreddy3030]

I have recently got offer from Google, NeetCode helped me during my coding interview Prep.

[@imohanreddy]

Love your content and solution , whenever i get stuck at a problem, i just search for your solution and its's best explanation i could ever find, looking forward to more of your content , Thanks

[@divvish]

Congratulations! Appreciate your videos and good luck with your new employment!

[@sdcair]

Thank you for sharing your interview experience! As someone who has fun trying to crack the hard problems, I now really feel eager to know what the hard ones were. It's like hearing about how great a song was, without actually hearing it.

[@theHootHoot]

A little tip for everyone preparing for Coding interviews- Prepare as if you're going to interview at Google, it's one of the hardest interviews out there as everyone knows. You'll be less likely to fail others even if you fail your Google interview and preparation was on that level

[@AK09037]

You helped me get into Google. Thank you :)

[@exspider64]

Thanks for sharing! I failed my 5 rounds of interviews last year. I'm looking to reapply this year after subscribing to your site!

[@EDROCKSWOO]

keep your head up. We all know it's stressful. Google ain't the only company folks!

[@rickychow4940]

Really happy for you! You well deserved it!

[@frank2046-f8f]

Congratulations! You are the best.

[@bavmac]

Congratulations on your new start !! So happy for you.

[@shahenechaouachi4959]

Neetcode I'm unemployed and you are a fucking inspiration. I've been a sub for quite a while and glad to see ur channel really popping off. I'll be at Google NYC soon.

[@sampatkalyan3103]

Same here.

[@tyrone1060]

Yessir that's the attitude

[@whyttea394]

Congrats! I am genuinely happy for you. Make Google great again, but also do not forget about us, please. Would love to keep working on leetcode problems along with your recordings.

[@cindysu262]

I really appreciate all your sharing and all the amazing instructional videos, got an interview next week, still working the way up there. Your videos definitely helps a lot!!

[@tanoybhowmick8715]

Thanks for all the efforts you made for us. Highly appreciated!

[@Chamasettings]

Congrats Man!! Well deserved

[@sanjanar9198]

Hey thank you for taking time to post this video and the other leetcode videos!! You're the best

[@jeffreyhorton5934]

@NeetCode .. I pressed play on a video... listened all the way up to the part of you saying "I created NeetCode" ..I said "holy shit, no way" .. scrolled down two notches and said .. This guy is a genius .. youre too modest bro ...

[@julioagueros]

Dude, something that would be mega useful is: share an analogous problem to the one asked. You will not break the NDA and will allow people assess the difficulty.

[@BatehamRadio]

I didn't get Google, but your videos helped me get Microsoft + Amazon Offers!!!

[@NeetCode]

Awesome, congrats 🎉

[@Aidan_Au]

Thank you for sharing your story and journey, and most of all, making the NeetCode website!

[@AnkitSingh-wq2rk]

Dammn Man !! thank you for your videos ... with your help i got offers from Microsoft and Amazon .. tho got rejected by google :P But once again thanks to you my guy !

[@OMFGallusernamesgone]

tfw when the guy who makes neetcode was unemployed for a lot of it due to how rigorous the ENTRY LEVEL interview is. I picked the wrong career.

[@theheadshot360]

you give me hope man. thank you for everything!

[@SanjanaSingh-mc6re]

You were pretty close still it took two years then maybe I should just give up. 🥺 ( I won't do that otherwise I will never grow but that's my thinking process right now. )

[@dumdumbringgumgum2940]

bruh not after coming this far. we're in the same boat keeping rowing 👍

[@kazenonero]

Keep going. You can do it !

[@ahmedelbarqy4849]

So happy for you, Best of luck on your career

[@mohammadwahiduzzamankhan4397]

I love your video man. Videos are not just helpful , its also inspiring. May I ask you before your onsite , around how many problem on leetcode have you solved? Also whats the ratio look like? Like what percentage of solved problems are easy/medium and hard. Also did you also solved google tagged question?

[@activelylazy9993]

Same question popped up into my mind!

[@tucker1351]

you are such a beast, thank you for everything you do

[@coreyjordan6733]

I've been coding for a little over 2 years and I am going to be interviewing at Google soon, I'm incredibly nervous. I'm going to use your channel to hopefully help me better prepare. thank you for this video though, it somehow makes me feel less nervous.

[@ViralKiller]

It's 50% luck...the vibe that day...Just learn your subject matter better than everyone else, be passionate and demonstrate some hacker out of the box thinking

[@sanjr4887]

It would be helpful if you also talked about the negotiation round, as one question that comes up during the recruiter interview is "what is your expectation for your compensation? " It is a difficult question to answer since you can only reference your past employment history for an increment. How to estimate the value you as a software engineer would bring in 2022 to Google and thus negotiate your self-worth to them and get paid ???

[@BryceByerley]

Ask them first what their budget is for the position. If they balk, you'll know that their budget is limited.

[@loneshaan8531]

The designs made in this video are actually the questions asked in an interview :)

[@ifatreefalse]

weird that there are thousands of google interview videos and not a single one about how much employees love their work/life balance, how great the managers are, etc.

[@viviankingasia1857]

This video helped with get an offer with Google. Thank you so much.

[@surajkadam8531]

Congratulations👍 And thank you for your help keep regular updating videos

[@Plokmin]

Thanks for doing what you're doing! Having a minimalistic UI for navigating LeetCode problems has done wonders for the coding interview grind :) Out of curiosity, did you ever have to prepare for System Design questions for the interview? (Or, at the very least, did you find value going through them?)

[@anivia3]

I believe Google doesn't ask system design for lower than senior level candidates

[@ohyash]

@@anivia3 Google India doesn't, but I think US/UK offices do system design for L4

[@patterntrader690]

Amazing story. I’d love to have you explain the different DSA on your website. For example explaining what Greedy, DP, Heaps, etc are. Plus the benefits of each and when to use each one

[@sagarsubedi]

I got an interview for New Grad, but didn't make it to an offer. The questions that were asked were easier than I anticipated and I solved all of them. Still, didn't get an offer. I think I struggled with the hints from the interviewers when they tried helping me optimize my code. Or maybe it was something else. Will try again next year!

[@progpogs]

I think it's pretty impressive anyone gets hired if even you found difficulty in an L3 loop.

[@studyaccount794]

Your journey is really inspirational!!

[@subhashreebanik8131]

I love watching your videos and I was so happy for you when I saw that you bagged a job in Google. You truly deserve this and much more. I have one question about the interview process. Were you able to use Python to code up the solutions?

[@NeetCode]

yeah i used python for all the rounds

[@jeff4615]

Neetcode is legendary.

[@anirbandas12]

I am so scared of work pressure, I don't even approach recruiters for product based companies ... but i still practice leetcode periodically ...

[@tovsteh]

Cracking the Google coding interview: If '("opinion is different from googles narrative") { // demonitize // censor } else { // promote using algorithm }

[@josephwong2832]

congrats! love your channel bro

[@MJWife07]

Congratulations on your job with Google!

[@Tombi432]

It seems these questions feel like a hidden IQ test, packed as an interview. Either you grind out all possible questions and learn them from guides/bootcamps or your brain power allready is good enough. I saw that some have up to 10 failed interviews to get into Google despite practising alot.

[@darhkz3900]

The first time I cold applied online but then reached out to a few recruiters and one of them gave me an interview. The second time I was contacted on LinkedIn by a recruiter (probably contracted) and got the interview that way. I say definitely reach out (well!) and also don't ignore contracted recruiters as they probably have a lot less people reaching out to them. I believe they're contracted because they have companies like Randstad listed as their employer but have google recruiter/sourcer in their profile/headline. Definitely target them.

[@rozhingalledari5580]

Hey there. Thanks for all your great videos. One big challenge that I have always struggled with these virtual interviews at least, is when you try to communicate/draw your thoughts for the first time when you see the problem online. So normally when you are to solve a problem you have to first do a few examples by hand and a pen (draw a decision tree for a DP problem or work with some pointers)and then only afterwards, you can collect your thoughts and code the solution up. So the question is how did you do that initial thinking process? particularly on the google doc, as it is not very user-friendly with drawing shapes/trees(lags in updating canvas), and plus it takes a good amount of time to sketch things. If you can share your experience in this regard also would be truly appreciated.

[@uditsharma5688]

Thankyou man for the content and the site . 👍

[@nin3se]

ahaha, please use more ambient clips in such videos, like people walking around or talking to each other. Because when I watch these screencasts showing solutions for problems, my mind completely target locks on the screen and I don't hear the "unrelated" story you're talking aloud at all, so I have to rewind the video and listen to it again while looking in other direction from my monitor, lmao. Happened to me several times already

[@firewater586]

A fact learned from Blind: Google pays relatively lower than and often down-levels people comparing to all other big tech companies and mid size(around 100B) tech companies. literally all of them except Microsoft. People from Blind please confirm this message below.

[@ugurkaraaslan9285]

Thank you for sharing your process. Congratulations!

[@jacktrainer4387]

Getting the interview is ridiculously hard. I'm thinking of hanging out in front of the Chicago office and saying, "Hey, bro, need a SWE?" In the meantime, I'll neetcode.

[@davidbednar7174]

Interesting. I was interviewed by Google and during the phone interview the call dropped. I had to call them back which I assumed was a test of people's initiative.

[@Aquatixlol]

Kind of an odd question, but what sketching tools do you use that allows you to draw on your computer that easily?

[@christianmorgan3940]

Went through the same process, technical sourcer reached out to me, arranged a technical interview, which was set, then out of the blue the technical interview team decided to call me a day early, I informed them that the interview was only the next day, I wasn't in front of my laptop at the time, they apologized and then said they'd re-schedule and noted they called a day early. Weeks went by no follow-up, I reached out to which I was told to provide dates I'd be available, I did, no one called, reached out again, and after two months of waiting for the re-scheduling of the interview nothing happened, there seems to be no urgency to get things done and to follow up with people in a timely manner, I really hope this was just a bad case with me and that others didn't have to go through the pain of waiting forever.

[@Anubis10110]

I'm so happy for you man .you are amazing 😍🤩

[@venkybabu8140]

Just average salary in India. For a kindergarten teacher 500 per day. For a daycare 500 RS per day. For white wash a room average salary is 300 per day. For professors it Is 1000 per day. For daily wage workers 200 per day. For professional cook per day is around 800 Like that. Do maths.

[@DeltaSleepy]

Congratulations!🎉

[@hideme420]

Congratulations 🥳👏

[@vineethsai1575]

I have a google interview coming up and after seeing your video, I am even more nervous 😂

[@AdlersAesthetics]

One of my interviews with them was "Create a pub sub system from scratch" full resilience for when subscribers go down/come back. Interviewer was super argumentative unfortunately. Other 3 questions were variations of tree manipulation/loading I felt like they were softballs compared to the pubsub one.

[@DragonStoneCreations]

I joined Google India as SWE L3 around the same time u joined and was prepping for interview along with u with your videos 😅. Thanks a lot mate!! Your videos were super helpful!! I'll post this video of yours in my linkedin page.Can u share your Linkedin profile so that I can mention in it my post? (If u are okay with this)

[@cutiex7357]

Wow so happy for you!!

[@mierta7751]

Thanks for sharing your valuable experience ❤

[@bumblebee7370]

Hey, great thanks to your explanations for leetcode problems. I cleared the interviews and have an offer from Google!.

[@NeetCode]

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

[@twoas6494]

Great story! Maybe you could elaborate on your experience in Hiring committee and and team matching phase? I'm currently doing team matching right now after the onsite and your videos definitely helped a lot. Haven't done HC yet tho

[@selvamv6740]

Very good to know , congrats !!!

[@lavkedar4199]

I am really happy for you sir :)

[@pqsk]

Interesting. This isn't the first video where someone talks about applying online directly and I keep seeing these videos talk about the online assessment. That's news to me. I was contacted by a google recruiter on LinkedIn. She said she was impressed with my work history and I said I wanted to prep for a few months and she contacted me 2 months later instead of the 3 that I originally said I wanted to prep (a colleague of mine suggested 3 months). But actually it turned out that I only really needed maybe 1 or 2 weeks to prep. I setup the technical interview and later the virtual on site interview with ease. Maybe my experience was better because I had 10+ years of experience. It's rare for me to meet a recruiter that blows me off. Only happened recently, but so many others contact me that it doesn't matter. I can't imagine having zero experience now a days, it seems like it's more competitive when starting off.