@gabrielfono844
This guy is my mentor. Being a software developer after teaching myself for two years, I am now focus on algorithms and datastructure to talke my skills to the next level
@AinurEru
A major factor that is left-out of this discussion is the "opportunity cost" payed by candidates for investing months/years into specializing in dealing with this standardized process, as oppose to spending that same time/energy into far more productive and relevant directions for their career develpment overall. It is very likly to be an overall net-loss for candidates if the opportunity cost is factored in, considering that much of that investment is really only relevant for this interviewing-process itself, typically being mostly forgotton the moment they land a job. It's the exact same story with standardized testing, it is an approach that optimized much more in service of the party that needs to filter, at the expence of the party being filtered. Also once a target is being measured specifically, it often leads to overspecialization into mastering it by candidates, leading to hires of candidates that had excelle in that process "at the expense" of investing in their ability to provide high value once hired. There's a conflation between "standardization" and "objectivity": Just because a measuring process is "standardized", doesn't make it "objective". We can all "agree" on what "signal" was provided by an interview, all the while having that signal poorly correlated/indicative of a strong hire and not realizing that we're measuring the wrong thing so that "agreement" about the "measurment" is irrelevant and we're not aware of that. Anyone interseted in what an actually better interviewing process for all parties might look like, take the time to see a demonstration of that here: https://youtu.be/cfyWvJdsDRI
@PeteGay
The BEST explanation of technical interviews I have ever seen! Well done. Companies don't want test takers and regurgitators. They want problem solvers who know when they reach their limits and when to find assistance and reference to move past an obstacle.
@philhagerman
It’s not that tech interviews are unfair, but you have to wonder why everyone at these Silicon Valley companies all look the same and share the same mindset of the world. The process in which they evaluate “successful” candidates is all the same so you end up getting a monoculture. Step outside the valley or FAANG in general and interviews are nothing like this. I’ve been doing this for close to 25 years across a variety of industries and the rest of the world is nothing like this. The only ones outside Silicon Valley that follow this mindset are startups who want to believe they are the next FAANG company. Just saying not all interviews are the Mike Tyson fight. There are an awful lot of BTS dance party interviews out there.
@shashankbhat9646
I have been following your channel for a while now, I simply love the crisp and clear way of communication of what is most important for software engineers. Also great backgrounds, lighting, clear sound systems you have. Keep going Utsav. Would love to see your channel cross a million subscribers.
@luistovar6916
thanks for your advice, I'm a developer from México and I'm watching your videos to get used to listen English and also to know how to improve some skills required to pass an interview
@apurbapanja1693
Thank you so much for changing the way I see the TECH interview in my mind. I am new in tech and you are one of the inspirations of my tech career. lots of love.
@SauravKumar-vj7ks
Utsav, man you don''t now how much crap you are cutting through the entire software engineering industry in general which is full of opinions and escaping strategies to get away from mastering the fundamentals and justify their just enough way of shallow learning. You're a real gem and sure I get to learn something really fascinating from you in each of your videos. Keep being the guiding light to a lot of the software engineers out there especially the new ones. Surely this channel deserves no less than a million subscribers.
@johnathanrice3569
They’re hard because people like you don’t understand that you’re actually getting pretty useless information from testing a marathon runner on how fast they run 100 m dash
@sylvesterdzimiri3266
Love your channel man. You are an inspiration
@artistryartistry7239
I can't speak for anyone else, but I have never "dreamed" of working anywhere for anyone. The only thing I dream about is running my own business, and being my own boss. Imagine "dreaming" of being commanded by another person/entity.
@armandoleon9901
My problem is I tend to forget easily. When I’m not actively recalling concepts (DSA) and studying things I need for work, such as a technology within our tech stack or another to solve a problem, I forget concepts in DSA over time. And when an interview offer comes up, I panic because I haven’t been proactively studying DSA, I’ve been learning something else. I try to study one thing at a time, too. When I try to do a bunch of these things at once, I don’t honor my health and myself and I get super burnt out and my health takes a bit. I try to knock one thing out at a time, but I don’t wanna spend so much time on software engineering. I love it, but I have other interests too and I wanna spend time with family. It’s such a balancing act. I am willing to time and task manage, but I get super obsessed/stressed (more of a personal problem) when something doesn’t go to plan or something comes up and puts me behind schedule. Anyone have experience with this and have any suggestions?
@chinomsojohnson8746
Almost every company uses leetcode style interviews now. I have gotten codility screens which consist of leetcode style questions for WordPress developer positions. I absolutely hated them and didnt wanna do them but I completely have no choice as they are the barrier to the kind of life I want.
@ChocolateMilkCultLeader
What is interesting to me is the fact that so many people are now studying for coding interviews. My articles on this have hit 150k views, AlgoExpert has had over 100k paying subs, I'm sure your videos on this have done well, Leetcode has tons you users etc etc. So it's very unlikely that people will come across problems they haven't seen before in an interview. How do you think interviews will change to reflect that? Will they just get harder? More specific questions? Behavioral? I'd be interested in your thoughts because you've actually been involved in the hiring process
@EngineeringwithUtsav
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@johnathanrice3569
I don’t understand in what world you think that testing someone on skills that are not related to their job is better than testing them on skills that are related to their job. All you’re doing is inferring about situations that we all know never occur in real programming. You have esoteric knowledge that you just love flaunting but in reality you don’t spend any time using it and you’re wasting All that mental space that could used to study useful topics, not things are solved by the STL 99.9% a time
@SamratKafle
Dai, this is awesome I am based on Dallas. Recently found your channel and thought of nothing at first but your work schedule made me wanna watch more of your videos. Such an inspiration.
@anurag01a
This video is Gold! Thanks Utsav Sir :))
@magicja
I just ordered Computer Science Distilled, a book you recommended in a previous video. Its not every day you find YouTube content that isn't about trying to make money for ones self. I really appreciate you not fishing for likes and subs, hence why I like and subscribed to your channel.
@mrowlbert