Naveed Singh, the software engineer behind NeetCode, the coding-interview preparation site and YouTube channel; formerly at Amazon and Google.
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Their wordsEverything is a trade-off. It's not really In engineering, there's no correct answer like there is in math or science. Engineering is about the best solution at the time.
Their wordsThe training is really hard to get to get down cuz it's like interviewers are just not good. Like the most interviewers do not like interviewing. They hate it.
NeetCodeNaveed Singh, the software engineer behind NeetCodeIf you're going so fast, you're not measuring the impact of the changes that you're making, you don't have time to do that cuz you're just focused on shipping and then things regress and things get worse and we've seen that at Anthropic recently the last like month or maybe more than that where things have regressed.↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com · 24 Jun 2026 · 0:55:22 into the videoAll korrents from this video
Their wordsIf you're going so fast, you're not measuring the impact of the changes that you're making, you don't have time to do that cuz you're just focused on shipping and then things regress and things get worse and we've seen that at Anthropic recently the last like month or maybe more than that where things have regressed.
NeetCodeNaveed Singh, the software engineer behind NeetCodeBut in terms of like features, like a website like you can just throw features in there nowadays that nobody really cares about and you can you can do it so quickly. Like a new feature every single day, but do people actually care about that? Is that making it better? It could be making things worse.↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com · 24 Jun 2026 · 0:54:49 into the videoAll korrents from this video
Their wordsBut in terms of like features, like a website like you can just throw features in there nowadays that nobody really cares about and you can you can do it so quickly. Like a new feature every single day, but do people actually care about that? Is that making it better? It could be making things worse.
Their wordsAny process that you have that's going to be standardized and super scalable, there's always going to be ways to game that. And the best way to get around that would be like hire somebody who's who's an intern and you saw how they performed.