What NeetCode thinks about ambition

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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 readingIf you are not willing to try hard, do things yourself and dig deeper, you should know what you are getting yourself into before betting a career on tech.

   Their wordsThe only reason I suggested that even in the title was that I think if you have an attitude of like you don't want to try hard, or you don't like you don't want to do things yourself, and you don't want to to dig deeper into things, like you need to do that. You need to do certain things. And if you're not willing to do that, I think you should know like what you're getting yourself into

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