Neetcode (
@neetcode1) is the most well-known coding interview prep creator with over 1M+ subs on YouTube. I interviewed him about the latest on coding interviews, his career at Amazon vs Google, and what it was like quitting big tech to do his own thing.
In this episode:
• Quitting Amazon after two months
• Memorizing solutions versus deriving them
• How he started Neetcode
• What he disliked most about Google
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:33 Quitting Amazon after 2 months
06:00 Testing Neetcode on Leetcode
12:57 Memorizing vs deriving solutions and intelligence
16:13 The story behind Neetcode
22:24 Getting a job at Google
27:47 How it was quitting big tech
29:38 What he hated most about Google
30:52 Top technical book recommendation
32:34 Advice for his younger self
33:46 Outro