What NeetCode thinks about agency

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Naveed Singh, the software engineer behind NeetCode, the coding-interview preparation site and YouTube channel; formerly at Amazon and Google.

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1. 24 Jun 2026

   Our readingAgency is what makes a hire good: the willingness to take a task in a domain you know nothing about and have learned the whole thing a week later.

   startups

   Their wordsI think like in startups the term is agency. Like somebody who's high agency who's just going to get things done, who's never going to like say no to something. I think like that attitude is really important of like okay, if I don't know something, I'll just learn it.

   ↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com 20th of 21 in this recording