Software Engineering Job Interview - Full Mock Interview 

Same lol. Too much pressure

That's why CS50 ppl get a rubber duck to talk and explain to :) It does not only help with understanding but also being able to explain/recall something "on command" is an important skill to learn over time. In that case you are your own worst enemy you have to defeat in order to get the job. Unfortunately there is no way around this as it is expected to be able to function properly even under heavy pressure as this reflects daily business. It's hard to get if you are coming straight out of school/college/uni but you need to fix this if you want to create your own place in the working class.

I think this is one of the easiest problems you can ask for.

​@@paultvshow what's the next step up from this kind of question? Leetcode medium?

I have one coming up Thursday. I've been told to use LeetCode and go for medium and hard challenges. A bit overwheliming TBH.@@bacon5481

This is about as cake an interview as you can have

have you improved yet?

Do leetcode , read text books , leave tutorials

I’m great with hardware but suck @ coding.

What should I do then😢

yeah, that would be interesting.

a perspective change would be fantastic.

Regarding the dp problem does not have too many approches since it is a well known problem

i love that idea

I have an honest question, Isn't everyone in the coding atmosphere going to be fucked because of AI? What is it that seperates a coder from a robot that can basicly do the same thing?

@@rosspayne5099what makes u think AI can solve this? Have u tried? AI can’t even solve my uni coursework and I’m in y1

Because im seeing millions of people lose their jobs because of AI that are involved in similiar coding fields, and no dude i havnt tried it im not AI what kind of question is that ahahahah@@stanleyching123

@@rosspayne5099 AI is comparable to the first language compilers and interpreters translating into machine language. These efforts produced mediocre to average code. AI delivers sub-par to modest regurgitated text and code from across the web. Code snippets rarely have references, so malicious actors can blog and tag for SEO supremacy, delivering malfunctioning and negative results.

​@@rosspayne5099 Oh look. Another example of AI/crypto bro pseudo-intellectual archetype utterly failing to comprehend how the underlying mechanism of the tech they raved so much about even work in the first place.

Isn't Everyone in the coding department going to be fucked hard because of AI ? Honest question, what seperates someone who can write code and a robot who can do the same thing?

​@@rosspayne5099most probably, but my lecturer told us to embrace it, AI is inevitable, so we must learn to use it efficiently

​@rosspayne5099 a bot writes code for instructions you give and you edit parts of that therfore your productivity is higher

​@rosspayne5099 , AI to coders is like Tractors to Farmers. Useful tool to handle things efficiently but without the farmer the overall job doesn't get done.

that's what you're supposed to do. if you're just quietly writing code, the interviewer's gonna fail you whether your program works or not. they mainly ask these to hear your thought process of how you solve problems.

Yeah, this was very cool to see, and quite challenging when your perspective on interviews is to ace them. I think what was most important here, is that the candidate explained her thought process out loud every single step of the way, so that the interviewer can follow along 100%, and even if the interviewer starts to not follow, maybe ask every now and then if it makes sense. I think I feel more confident after seeing this video bc it proves that interviews should be a conversation on implementation, drawbacks, pros, larger questions, modularity, and less on getting a right answer...because designing a system isn't something you can get right 100% in the real world.

Keep it up!! Your intrest alone is a great quality to have!

Just lie and say ur transgender and non binary they won't turn you down no matter what if u failed the test

Lol

​@@Adam-kk7nw 💀💀yk what this is probably true too especially in places like san fran

@@Adam-kk7nw modern problem require modern solution lmao

@@Stephen.c19 this made my whole day 😂 thank you

If you are told to use python, you gotta ABUSE the hell out of lists!

@@onemoregodrejected9369 damn yes. LISTS are for abuses 🤣🤣🤣🤣 without regrets.

yep I added that to my background

yea when they said 'collection' of Books I automatically defaulted to std::vector or Vec or []Book or even Book* if ur feeling fancy and want to use a static array

@@anon-fz2bo pointers 😂 not unless it's mentioned.

Create the Job bro !

Yes you will

Don’t worry. You will.

It is basically a hash map, in python it is called dictionary

Keep in mind this video is staged.

I'm in my second semester of OOP and I still struggle wrapping my head around things like class relationships. I think Most intelligent people if they put the effort in could understand what methods and instances of a classes are. However, to fully understand classes, you need a deeper understanding of object-oriented principles. Now I don't believe most people would comprehend concepts like abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism etc... Its a very deep and complex topic that takes practice and practice.

I know this is a bit late, but the easiest way I found to understand classes was to, just a coincidence here, but think of them as books. A book has key elements to it, author, the content, published date, isbn etc, and those would be enforceable properties of a class, things that make the object, the object, in this case a book, a book. Right? Then inside a book, has chapters, think of those as methods, every chapter provides a function regarding the book, chapter 1 for example uses the content and starts the process of moving the story forward, while maybe chapter 6 is needed to develop a character a bit more, and all that information is there for you to reference. Think of that as class.method. You need to know about that guy from chapter 6? book.chapter6() will provide that for you. Now you have the blueprint of a book, all you have to do is initialize the object and pass it what it needs, write the author down, write the content, etc. Book hp= new Book(author, content, isbn, etc) and you can crack that thing open whenever you need to now to access it's contents, again, hp.chapter6(). Or a more realistic example hp.length() and your length method would just be like ```return len(self.content)``` using python. And to add on to that, for inheritance like above, book maybe more of a broad class if you will, but then maybe you want a short story class with the same type of functions as the book class. There's where inheritance comes in. The book class can be used as a parent of the short story class, where the short story has copied the over structure of a book, but it's still it's own separate thing so it can have some specialized methods as well. I'd keep going but I think you get the jist. It doesn't work great for encapsulation, but just wrapping your head around classes and understanding their purpose opens a lot more possibilities for comprehension for the other concepts.

What age are you starting?

you are learning in the worst date, interviews are wild now

​@Fran-kc2gu I know, I wish I started to code when I was a new born

Just be you

Some good practice time doing explanations while you're solving a problem coding, soon enough it will become hardwired in your brain.

you should be much better if you want to get to faang, there you are expected to solve two leetcode hards in ~40 minutes, and this dp task was at most medium

A CS as your first and only degree and a passion mainly for programming for the better half of your life.

I agree. Kinda annoying how he kept talking over her

​@@OMFGTrexKyleig interviewer can do that, so it's good

As someone who've been on both end of interviewing, verbalising your thought process is very important in an interview - and Kylie Ying did great in that regard here. It's better to overshare about what's going through your mind (as long as it's still related to the matter of the interview 😛) than the opposite; if you're completely silent and suddenly stop doing anything, the interviewer can't read your mind to tell if you're just taking a break to think better about your solution, or if you're completely lost and don't know how to ask for help.

Thats great to here! I am on the other side of the spectrum lol. I am learning CSS and HTML 😢 This turns my world upside down. I wish my MIS BS taught me more.

@@chickenlittle4344 lol same just started learning! we will get there.

How’s your interview went ?

@@paolajimenez979 Searching still, jobs are being taken. No interview yet.

true but they also want to make sure you haven't just copied others people work, and they also want to see how you handle under pressure

@@user-pl6hy3km6s *_true but they also want to make sure you haven't just copied others people work_* If this is the reason, then every software engineer in the field needs to be fired. I don't know of any software engineer who hasn't at some point referred to StackOverflow for snippets of code. It's inefficient to expect coders to rewrite code that already exists, especially if it's going to serve the exact same function. Even if the coder DOESN'T copy it from someone else, the CODE will still end up looking identical (apart from perhaps var names) because languages like Java, JS, CSS, Python, etc will only work if code is written one way. *_and they also want to see how you handle under pressure_* Yet again, this is a pointless test. Nearly any job is going to put the worker under pressure at some point. People apply for jobs EXPECTING to be under pressure occasionally. If they knew they couldn't handle the pressure, they wouldn't be applying.

90% of junier engg. showing as their project in portfolio is something they made my following some random tutorial, but when we give a problem, they lack ability to solve problem even if they know the syntax......

@@vaisakhkm783 It's still not an accurate test of their abilities. Your "test" is testing _how quickly_ they can come up with a solution, not they're actual problem-solving skills. The real world doesn't work like that. When you encounter a problem in coding, it's not like you have a team of executives peering over your shoulder expecting you to come up with a solution on the spot. That's asinine. Unless you run your company like a slave labor force, the actual employee is going to need time to ASSESS the problem, and then formulate possible solutions (some of which may not even work). You're expecting the potential employee to be a walking encyclopedia of all languages, situations, problems, solutions, etc. The person you're looking for doesn't exist, bud.

Fr😂😂 imagine doing this in an interview real time I would literally just be lost and the pressure of time/my anxiety would get the best of me. I would just give up and exist out of the interview room right then and there and not look back.

failing because of edge cases in leetcode makes me feel really stupid because usually you just need to add a single if statement to pass the test

lol ol' boy traumatized

how do you know they wont ask you this?

@@TozzaYT if they do i'll just run away 😂

Why are these interview questions bad? Just curious

@@MiltkaStar i think one problem people have with them is that you almost never have to do these leetcode style questions in a real job

i agree with you. i've been working as a coder for almost 21 years for now and never wrote a code to solve anything like a "plagiarism" algorithm question. This is not a real world question. they are just questions for satisfying their egos.

Why not just a list of active book ids per user?

Unfortunately, like the interviewer said, this is for indie works, and are not necessary all registered to the ISBN system. An ID system would be more robust in this case, but I like that idea!

there 's also a limitation that ISBN was only introduced in 70's so basically all antique books are ruled out, but ISBN option should have definetely been discussed, and it didn't

@@kinuly1174 sorry, no printed book can be sold without ISBN. Are you talking about articles, not books? or something like github "books"?

@@alexeisosin9203 I think it was like custom books that the user can create, not officially with a registered ISBN but they mentioned they need to give it a Title, so I think it's users own book

I think she was trying to giving an ID to multiple same books since isbn would be same for all these that would not work. As she said in the real world it would be not ideal to assume there isn't multiple copies of the same book. Giving an ID by the way the books are added to the library gives each book a uniqueness