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 Where to watch: • YouTube - • Spotify - • Apple Podcasts - • Transcript - Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at 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