About this episode

In this episode, Gergely Orosz interviews Navdeep Singh about his journey from working at Amazon and Google to creating NeetCode, discussing coding interviews and the importance of learning difficult concepts in engineering.

Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers • Google Cloud Run – run your code and host LLMs directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure, without having to worry about managing infra. — Navdeep Singh – oftentimes better known as NeetCode – is the creator of NeetCode.io , one of the most popular coding interview preparation platforms and YouTube channels for software engineers. Before building NeetCode full-time, he worked as a software engineer at Amazon and Google. In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I sit down with Neet to discuss his path from Amazon and Google to building his own startup, why he left Amazon after just two months, what he learned at Google, and the decision to leave a stable engineering career to bet on himself. We also discuss what coding interview preparation teaches beyond passing interviews, the value of going deep on difficult problems, and why systems thinking and domain expertise remain essential engineering skills in the age of AI. Throughout…

People in this episode

Host: Gergely Orosz

Guest: Navdeep Singh

Topics covered

• coding interviews
• software engineering
• career transitions
• startup journey
• learning and development
• AI in engineering

Keywords

• NeetCode
• coding interviews
• software engineering
• career change
• AI
• learning
• Amazon
• Google

Sponsors

Antithesis, Sentry, Google Cloud Run

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NeetCode, Amazon, Google

Products: Antithesis, Sentry, Google Cloud Run

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