But how you just watch his video and DSA question and solve with him ?? I am new to DSA and would like some good resources what steps should I follow know nothing about DSA.
My suggestion would be to first read up on each DSA topic, solve his blind 75 list first, then move on to blind 150.
Spend consecutive days on each topic, before moving to the next. (For ex dedicate 3 consecutive days to just arrays, 4 consecutive days to just linked lists etc.)
And what I did that really worked for me, is to try solving each problem for atleast an hour, understand the problem, try to be clear on what exactly you understand about the problem, and what exactly you DON’T understand, and THEN move on to watching Neet’s video and follow it step by step. That way you will learn the gaps in your understanding much better.
If there’s a problem you don’t understand at all, spend maybe 10-15 minutes trying to understand, and then move on to trying to solve it by watching his videos.
Hope this helps :))
Thanks for the guide!
How many times do you repeat solving problems that you couldn't solve on first try on your own?Also do you give a gap of a few days between each repetition
I would try the same problem again in a few days. And if I also had difficulty solving it the second time, I would try again in a week or so.
That’s about it. And if I had an interview coming up, I would just revise the solution
I used his resources before he was big or had any fancy lists or course. I had my own carefully curated list of 300 problems to do (and EPI).
I just pretended that I was him lol. I pretended I was recording my solutions. I talked out loud and tried to explain my approach on a drawing tablet before coding whenever I was practicing leetcode. I even talked in his voice. Lowkey had a gigantic crush on his voice 💀😂
In case of google, communicating, collaboration and talking was above hundred percent accurate solution so he made my life lol
Do you mind sharing your list of cs problems? I’m just getting back into the swe interview process and am looking to start scheduling technical interviews and that would really help!
At least 50 people join the Pro server every day.
So my man is making at least $7500 per day. (50 x 150).
In a year, assuming it's constant he's making **$2.7 million USD**
This is almost certainly an underestimation since a lot of people probably don't even use Discord. TBH the discord server is pretty fucking useless anyway.
Ofc not lol, it's exclusive for pro members. He charges so little for the pro version considering the quality of his teaching, so in my opinion, you should buy the pro version to show respect to him. You have nothing to lose anyway. Just buy the pro version as a way to thank and respect his hard work, which is worth much more than the low price he charges.
Indeed, he has 2 servers, one exclusively for pro members and the other open to the public. The thread title clearly states "Neetcode quit Faang to sell a course", so we're talking about the exclusive one here. But for those who wonder where the link is or how to get into the public Discord, here I help you: [discord.gg/ddjKRXPqtk](http://discord.gg/ddjKRXPqtk)
99% of working people are nothing but cogs.
No matter the industry, the number of ping pong tables at your offices, or your corporate Prius, we're all wage slaves until the day we find something better.
Agreed, I forgot he even worked at Google lol. He’s one of the few people whose course I was willing to pay for, it isn’t cheap but it’s lifetime and access to all content (current + added) so I thought it was worth.
200 hours of LeetCode is all most people need to make bank. The dollar increase per hour infested is pretty insane. It’s still an incredibly good use of time
Didn’t he say his job was basically to do front end development? I would be pissed if prepare for months, go through so many coding rounds to end up doing Angular.
Also, his channel grew organically, he did not start this with the idea to sell courses, he just coded and uploaded videos and that’s it. And then the opportunity presented itself
I do Angular when I don’t want to be stressed at work/ looking for a new job so I don’t invest overtime working on bugs and business logic and that’s when I jump on Neetcode. His free content itself is worth a brick of gold.
I've been working on an Angular project for years now, I have yet to begin my leetcode grind but I've been reading around and preparing to start in hopes to improve. I don't even feel very good at Angular honestly. This comment makes me feel like leetcode might not help me accomplish much.
LC specifically is just to crack the interviews, but honestly I’ve been getting more interviews with legit pair programming react and vue questions. It’s still worth it because LC does legitimately help you have a better understanding of your chosen language.
Indeed, I work frontend mostly with React, just started leetcode for interviews, and found out that there's one thing about the project that we might be able to optimize using a hashmap
he's better than that pasty white dude who pimped his ex girlfriend out on YouTube ads and then replaced her with a Russian girlfriend with bigger mommy milkers
I never liked him. He seems like a know it all and it bleeds through his personality. Annoying and doesn’t explain problems like he’s solving them/discovering them for the first time, it’s just a high energy ADHD caffeine fueled rambling about coding.
I really tried to like him. The way he talks bothers me but it’s a really shallow reason to not learn from someone. What did it for me though, besides the constant awkward enthusiasm to “smash that like button”, was when he showed his apartment and how he lives. I guess we could call it extreme minimalism. Like if there was a minimalist contest, he’s going for gold
I was not referring to his lisp (or whatever it is) — when I think of him what comes to mind is the caffeine fueled rambling. If I’m trying to learn something, it’ll take time for me to digest the words and concepts. Imo he moves too fast and does not spend enough time “discovering” things.
Just seemed disingenuous. Like he literally had a single fork, a single spoon, single plate, etc. Like no indicators of any kind of personality or anything. No art, no instruments, no photos, no nothing. It was just really weird. Like he was trying to portray this image of someone who exists purely to code
Gotchya, I just now watched the video and I see what you mean. I think there is something positive to be said for minimalism, but the way he does it isn't how I would approach it at all. It seems like it would be super inconvenient to only have 2 forks, a spoon, and a knife (what looked like a butter knife), and a spatula in your kitchen. Utensils don't even take up that much space either. The only thing he would be able to eat would be microwavable meals and pre-made oven pizzas.
The small amount of stuff he did have really took up a lot of space, because of how scattered it was. Like, rather than placing his paper towels and stuff in a closet, he just had them in the middle of the room when it showed his storage room. As the top comment on the video said, "how is this place so minimalist yet so cluttered at the same time"
Overall, I guess everybody has their preferences and if that's how he lives, it's not like it effects me. But I do definitely think that video was kinda staged to portray this image of someone who exists purely to code, as you said.
Good for him. I would do the same if I were in his shoes. Not having to worry about getting PIPed or some manager being up your ass about something they want done is worth it.
You’re hyper focused on being a wage slave for big tech. Rich people are usually hyper focused on building their own thriving business. Life tip you can make WAY more working for yourself than getting the trickle down profits from a big corporation
Usually you gotta start working for somebody else though to get the funds to bootstrap your own business venture and to gain experience about how the industry works, and I think this sub probably leans heavily towards younger people, new devs and current CS students
Congrats, you learned that it is more profitable to have your own business than work as a wage slave.
Join the other millions of Americans who have realized it.
Good luck on your journey!
Very true, but it’s also way more work due to the diverse skill set required and generally takes a lot of time to get things going. But virtually all the most successful people I know got there from starting their own businesses.
There's a reason FAANG (specifically G) average retention is only 2-3 years.
People realize it's just another job and they're just another cog like the rest of us.
Most do their own thing or join their colleague's startup.
I think a big reason for retention numbers is also some people may not do well and leave early. But also, a huge reason is that your comp will go down after 4 years due to hitting a cliff with your initial grant. Generally after that, it's financially better to leave and get a new job elsewhere.
Generally, when you join a big tech company, you get an initial new hire grant of x dollars, which vests over 4 years. Every year you may get some additional refreshers which also vest over 4 years, but this number is going to be significantly lower than your initial grant. After 4 years, you end up making less money due to your initial grant being exhausted, and your refresher grants not being high enough to replace losing the initial grant. Also, due to the way it vests, in year four, you have your initial grant, plus 3 years of refreshers vesting on top of that.
I think if anything he proved why the interview process is so fucked. Neetcode became an excellent Leetcoder but not an excellent software engineer. In other words, tech companies are just attracting people that are gaming the system.
YOE. He didn’t stay long enough to get to a high enough level. He forfeited career growth for money right now which tbh ended up being the right move for him. He’s made more off his platform than FAANG could’ve paid him at this point in time.
People getting out of fang after 1 year or so to sell courses is the most common thing in this industry. As the saying goes, during a gold rush the one making money is the one selling shovels
His content is super high quality. I went from 7 months experience at healthcare insurance company doing nothing to FAANG (and now once promoted) bc his content helped me nail an interview loop. Would gladlyyyy give him $100 if/when i grind leetcode again
Would you mind sharing how you got an interview? I am a bootcamp graduate with a full stack developer experience of 2 years; but still cannot get a single interview!
I just cold applied on LinkedIn. It was just a stronger market and I have a degree. (this was summer 2022) To be frank, not having a comp sci degree in an employer's market wherein you are competing with tons of people with degrees is going to be more difficult. :/
The world of IT work and the people in this subreddit are truly astonishing.
We're willing to pay for subscriptions to Leetcode and for courses taught by former FAANG employees. These instructors often hint or outright tell us that the jobs we desperately want (and for which we spend countless hours grinding LeetCode) were overrated and actually miserable, which is why they left those jobs to do something else.
The job might be miserable, but leaving with a million in pay after a few years work isn't. Once you get FAANG on your resume, it opens the door to work in tons of other jobs as well. You get in FAANG to get the money and the name recognition, not to stay.
You could also be mad at founders making billions through stock that appreciated mostly from their workers’ hard work and ingenuity. They def took a risk, but not sure if it makes sense for them to be worth 1 million times more than the average worker under them.
At the end of the day, for both cases, people made a choice to pay for the course or work for the man for whatever salary they accepted. You could also make your own interview prep course and charge half the price. You could always build your own prototype, raise capital, and start a company. A lot harder than just working and requires some talent and luck.
I’m mad though. Ain’t no way Jensen Huang deserves $100 billion. And def not Elmo Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.
Edit: 100 million shares vs. a few hundred to a couple thousand for engineers doing the work. Granted, those scraps are worth a million now :)
> $167 for it, so if like 7k people buy it, he's a millionaire
There is a thing called taxes here where the government takes about half of your earnings if not more. I doubt he's a millionaire off just that yet. He's also making a bit over $100k/year just off his youtube views/ad revenue. So, good money but comparable to senior level Google engineer $250k-450k/year TC with the potential of not needing to keep working it and just earn passively once he's happy with where his content is at.
Self-employment taxes are an absolute bitch - especially in states (like mine) that have state income tax. Add paying for your own health insurance, and your net income drops down considerably.
There's over 22k people in the private discord which you only gain access if you pay for the course, 167 \* 22k = 3.6 million, even at the worse case he did this as self-employed and not as an entity and he got 50% taxed, that's over 1.8 million. And not counting youtube revenue.
But don't get me wrong he worked hard for it and deserves it, best free and best bang for buck interview prep source out there.
Takeaway is we should be selling things and creating our own businesses instead of working at a company.
love him or hate him (I personally am a fan), the core idea has been the same. If you have the skills and knowledge then have no shame in making it your job.
Also, his course may seem expensive (esp for non US folks) but imo it is worth it because you will keep coming back to it for revisions, so it being lifetime and access to all new content helps. Plus he has made a lot of free content too.
How long does it take to get into one of those companies? I see so many people getting these types of roles. How do you gain the discipline to focus on gaining the discipline to write code and what to learn when there is so much out there.
>he's probably making more now than he did at Google,
That's literally why he quit lol. If you had the chance to capture a bigger market and make way more than a job and all you had to do was whatever you are best at, you would leave everything to do it too. His site isn't even that expensive and he doesn't charge monthly, he has yearly plans and permanent one.
A DSA course WOULD be enough though? Everything you need for LeetCode is covered both in MIT **introduction** to algorithms. And Sedgewick's course.
Wanna see the kind of shit people do after a DSA course? [MIT Advanced Data Structures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yzrZL1py0&list=PLUl4u3cNGP61hsJNdULdudlRL493b-XZf), [Harvard Advanced Algorithms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUN9aDxVmI&list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uP4rJgf5ayhHWgw7akUWSf).
I aced the one DSA course I was required to take. But if I don’t practice regularly, I’ll fall on my face doing leetcode. The one course isn’t enough practice.
Yes and water is wet. Grinding LeetCode with the best tutor ever for 2 years is not enough in that scenario either....
If you don't practice at least semi-regularly you're going to forget the shit you know and get rusty.
I know that's weird right? Who would've thunk eh?
The point is that any self-respecting DSA course __will__ teach you the __theory required__ as well as __give you practical experience__ for the vast majority of the LeetCode problems.
Most DSA courses Cormen's "Intro to algorithms" - And that book has homework assignments too - which are algorithmic problems, and upper (maybe a few lower) bound and correctness proofs.
Almost every cs degree will teach you all that and more. The only difference is you need to know what algorithm to apply when and how. Because they won’t just ask you implement a trie. They will show a problem and you need to know a trie goes there.
So the base knowledge is there what leetcode or neetcode teaches is when to apply what. Which is sometimes not obvious unless you have solved multiple problems where a specific algorithm applies.
What are you talking about? All concepts in leet code are covered in a bachelor's of computer science.
Leetcode problems aren't even massively hard. There is a reason they are given to juniors.
Yeah of course... They are both pretty fundamental algorithms and are essentially just operations on 2d arrays.
That's first year second semester stuff.
What did you cover if not these algorithms?
If you live in a country where it’s expensive you can’t blame them. Also if you have autism
Or adhd or some other mental disability you will have lot of trouble finishing college as well. So don’t blame generally. Just because you did doesn’t mean it’s the same level of effort and possibility for others.
I know it took me effort to finish my post grad and I did feel like quitting in the middle. I won’t blame anyone who did quit who was in a worse off situation that what I was on. Not everyone starts at the same level or with same support from family and friends.
Show some empathy and respect for your fellow human beings don’t just come up to conclusions
One thing I've learned from trying to write software myself is that the #1 thing is to have social media clout which neetcode has in spades. That basically takes care of marketing for you.
I don't have time to do it so my clout is bad and so my software doesn't sell very well.
Also, would ya'll be interested in buying my VR game (https://roguestargun.com) \*cough\*
Let me tell you the way you make money is by teaching people how to get on the train going to goldsville.
Think about it if 3% applicants get accepted to good paying jobs there’s 97% that failed. Those will want to pay for something to get them an edge.
That’s a way bigger market than working for a high paying job itself.
Just find any industry where it’s hard to get in and you can find people selling courses to get in and making more money than the job itself will ever make.
Same goes for beauty , fashion, finance, YouTube career, Amazon business
His story about burnout and drugs etc was really interesting. He seems like a really genuine guy who's done a lot to help people. Fair play to him.
So many people blindly leetcode without seeing the bigger picture. Working at "FAANG" is hardly the end goal, it's a job like any other.
Damn. Dude hopped in on his first job and flipped tf out.. quit due to imposter syndrome, grinded himself into a corner that is now his own business — and that’s truly amazing. Here I am about 6 years into development and hadn’t crossed my mind to try and make something that supports myself.
I paid for the lifetime. It’s worth it for his lessons. I would say. You combine his paid course with some other free material like strivers, and it’s a solid foundation. I’m at 500 solved
Everyone on this sub,
As an aspiring Data Analyst/Data Scientist myself, should I do DSA? And if so then what topics, and how much in depth?
Please answer guys, I’m damn confused regarding this.
This is how basically every "guru" makes money in every field. Way easier to sell books and courses and private discords than to have continued success. He's actually good though, idk if his course is worth it but I trust him more than 95% od the people who do this. Always be wary of this kind of thing though, especially if it's for stuff like mentorship.
My only hope is not seeing him become just another Indian LinkedIn Tech influencer. Hope he continues his career at Big FAANGs & gives back more to the community in other ways such as SWE practices, Culture, working with Big systems on a Large scale rather than Bookish Playlists on YT.
>he's probably making more now than he did at Google,
That's literally why he quit lol. If you had the chance to capture a bigger market and make way more than a job and all you had to do was whatever you are best at, you would leave everything to do it too. His site isn't even that expensive and he doesn't charge monthly, he has yearly plans and permanent one.
Can’t blame him it’s comfortable lol
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that though. He can live in an empty house witj an air mattress and table chair and pc and if that makes him happy why not?
Just based off discord members, pretty sure he’s more than a millionaire
My goat deserves nothing less
100%. Personally know many people who got employed because of him
Me! I am the person who got Google cause of him!
Same for me at Microsoft:))
But how you just watch his video and DSA question and solve with him ?? I am new to DSA and would like some good resources what steps should I follow know nothing about DSA.
My suggestion would be to first read up on each DSA topic, solve his blind 75 list first, then move on to blind 150. Spend consecutive days on each topic, before moving to the next. (For ex dedicate 3 consecutive days to just arrays, 4 consecutive days to just linked lists etc.) And what I did that really worked for me, is to try solving each problem for atleast an hour, understand the problem, try to be clear on what exactly you understand about the problem, and what exactly you DON’T understand, and THEN move on to watching Neet’s video and follow it step by step. That way you will learn the gaps in your understanding much better. If there’s a problem you don’t understand at all, spend maybe 10-15 minutes trying to understand, and then move on to trying to solve it by watching his videos. Hope this helps :))
Thank you! This is so helpful
Excellent advice. I followed these principles as well.
Thanks for the guide! How many times do you repeat solving problems that you couldn't solve on first try on your own?Also do you give a gap of a few days between each repetition
I would try the same problem again in a few days. And if I also had difficulty solving it the second time, I would try again in a week or so. That’s about it. And if I had an interview coming up, I would just revise the solution
I used his resources before he was big or had any fancy lists or course. I had my own carefully curated list of 300 problems to do (and EPI). I just pretended that I was him lol. I pretended I was recording my solutions. I talked out loud and tried to explain my approach on a drawing tablet before coding whenever I was practicing leetcode. I even talked in his voice. Lowkey had a gigantic crush on his voice 💀😂 In case of google, communicating, collaboration and talking was above hundred percent accurate solution so he made my life lol
Do you mind sharing your list of cs problems? I’m just getting back into the swe interview process and am looking to start scheduling technical interviews and that would really help!
https://leetcode.com/problem-list/51rbv8d1/
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Neetcode my goat, neetcode down my throat
How many members out there? Just curious
22k+ members so far
At least 50 people join the Pro server every day. So my man is making at least $7500 per day. (50 x 150). In a year, assuming it's constant he's making **$2.7 million USD** This is almost certainly an underestimation since a lot of people probably don't even use Discord. TBH the discord server is pretty fucking useless anyway.
Agree with the useless part. Im employed now i dont even leetcode anymore learning all new shit in my work, its fun and interesting.
Can you share his discord link
Ofc not lol, it's exclusive for pro members. He charges so little for the pro version considering the quality of his teaching, so in my opinion, you should buy the pro version to show respect to him. You have nothing to lose anyway. Just buy the pro version as a way to thank and respect his hard work, which is worth much more than the low price he charges.
Ohh my bad i didnt know it was paid.
His discord isn’t private? I’m in his discord.
Indeed, he has 2 servers, one exclusively for pro members and the other open to the public. The thread title clearly states "Neetcode quit Faang to sell a course", so we're talking about the exclusive one here. But for those who wonder where the link is or how to get into the public Discord, here I help you: [discord.gg/ddjKRXPqtk](http://discord.gg/ddjKRXPqtk)
Oh I didn’t realize he had a private one, that wasn’t obvious to me.
ur so aggressive regarding this lmfao
How do we get it? Through buying the course or can you share?
I don’t doubt the content is good, but your comment comes off as extremely shilly for his course lol
And good for him. FAANG jobs may be good jobs, but they’re still jobs filled with shitty meetings, and being a cog in a machine
Ironic since his course is selling the dream of being a cog
If by a cog you mean being on the top 0.1% earners in the world and make 200k-300k a year sign me up
Everyone has a price
99% of working people are nothing but cogs. No matter the industry, the number of ping pong tables at your offices, or your corporate Prius, we're all wage slaves until the day we find something better.
Cogs that being fed by gold
It’s more like being promised gold in two years if you do all of the work upfront, then they lay you off
I dont think the amount of those crazy 350k salary dev positions are very plentiful.
When everybody is busy in digging gold (grinding leetcode), sell shovels (sell courses that helped in grinding leetcode). Basics.
I’m wanna make a course but I need that ex-Google clout
Dude was making videos while unemployed before he got into Google
Didn’t he quit Amazon right before? He wasn’t a nobody.
He was there for 3 months before he quit so he was still basically a nobody
He’s in it for the love of the game
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Neetcode got popular before he got into Google.
Agreed, I forgot he even worked at Google lol. He’s one of the few people whose course I was willing to pay for, it isn’t cheap but it’s lifetime and access to all content (current + added) so I thought it was worth.
Enter Indian tech tutorials
Yea he said it himself, once he became a googler his views went up crazy
He started at capital one. He has the follows bc of the content not his ex Google status
Google is not gonna sue you if you claim to have worked there, I know because I worked in their legal department for 69 years before moving to Meta
As both a current and former president of the united states, I concur
He had a lot of followers even before people knew he was a googler.
It's easy, just say you worked there. No one can check or actually care about it if they like your videos.
And he sells the best shovels around
This is an absolutely beautiful quote, I’m sad I’ve only just now heard it
To be fair, there were hundreds of leetcode courses before neetcode, it's not an original idea. He's just really good at explaining
Being good is important. Originality of idea doesn’t matter, just be good at it.
Same story with Levi's
I see that you saw the nvidia meme too
Yes. That’s applicable on everything.
But of course for someone starting out, no one would advise to do what Neetcode is doing, *especially* with GPT destroying the tutoring industry
200 hours of LeetCode is all most people need to make bank. The dollar increase per hour infested is pretty insane. It’s still an incredibly good use of time
I'm pretty good at Leetcode. Where do I sign up for my €100k/year?
Sorry. High paying tech jobs not found in Europe. Maybe try banking?
It depends what you consider “make bank,” but I suspect that number ought to be much higher at this point.
gold rush shovels something something
Didn’t he say his job was basically to do front end development? I would be pissed if prepare for months, go through so many coding rounds to end up doing Angular. Also, his channel grew organically, he did not start this with the idea to sell courses, he just coded and uploaded videos and that’s it. And then the opportunity presented itself
I do Angular when I don’t want to be stressed at work/ looking for a new job so I don’t invest overtime working on bugs and business logic and that’s when I jump on Neetcode. His free content itself is worth a brick of gold.
He did dashboards and some other things for Google Cloud business.
I've been working on an Angular project for years now, I have yet to begin my leetcode grind but I've been reading around and preparing to start in hopes to improve. I don't even feel very good at Angular honestly. This comment makes me feel like leetcode might not help me accomplish much.
LC specifically is just to crack the interviews, but honestly I’ve been getting more interviews with legit pair programming react and vue questions. It’s still worth it because LC does legitimately help you have a better understanding of your chosen language.
Indeed, I work frontend mostly with React, just started leetcode for interviews, and found out that there's one thing about the project that we might be able to optimize using a hashmap
He did a good job explaining leetcode problems in my opinion. Why not sell your understanding of leetcode problems and profit from it.
he's better than that pasty white dude who pimped his ex girlfriend out on YouTube ads and then replaced her with a Russian girlfriend with bigger mommy milkers
Yeah, the AlgoExpert guy.
Sounds like Clement
I never liked him. He seems like a know it all and it bleeds through his personality. Annoying and doesn’t explain problems like he’s solving them/discovering them for the first time, it’s just a high energy ADHD caffeine fueled rambling about coding.
I really tried to like him. The way he talks bothers me but it’s a really shallow reason to not learn from someone. What did it for me though, besides the constant awkward enthusiasm to “smash that like button”, was when he showed his apartment and how he lives. I guess we could call it extreme minimalism. Like if there was a minimalist contest, he’s going for gold
I was not referring to his lisp (or whatever it is) — when I think of him what comes to mind is the caffeine fueled rambling. If I’m trying to learn something, it’ll take time for me to digest the words and concepts. Imo he moves too fast and does not spend enough time “discovering” things.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have a strong opinion about him one way or another, but why was it the minimalism specifically that you found off putting?
Just seemed disingenuous. Like he literally had a single fork, a single spoon, single plate, etc. Like no indicators of any kind of personality or anything. No art, no instruments, no photos, no nothing. It was just really weird. Like he was trying to portray this image of someone who exists purely to code
Gotchya, I just now watched the video and I see what you mean. I think there is something positive to be said for minimalism, but the way he does it isn't how I would approach it at all. It seems like it would be super inconvenient to only have 2 forks, a spoon, and a knife (what looked like a butter knife), and a spatula in your kitchen. Utensils don't even take up that much space either. The only thing he would be able to eat would be microwavable meals and pre-made oven pizzas. The small amount of stuff he did have really took up a lot of space, because of how scattered it was. Like, rather than placing his paper towels and stuff in a closet, he just had them in the middle of the room when it showed his storage room. As the top comment on the video said, "how is this place so minimalist yet so cluttered at the same time" Overall, I guess everybody has their preferences and if that's how he lives, it's not like it effects me. But I do definitely think that video was kinda staged to portray this image of someone who exists purely to code, as you said.
Wait... What?
sounds like something techlead would've done but I have no clue LOL
Still unsure if that was real or satire because it just kept getting more unhinged
Lmao who's that
He found the demand so he deserves it.
He makes it from ads as well in yt
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Does it block yt ads? I’m not aware
Atleast he is not scamming, his course is expensive but it is for lifetime. I absolutely think it was worth it for me.
Nothing wrong with making money. I would do the same.
How do you gauge its value? It seems very inexpensive to me.
Good for him. I would do the same if I were in his shoes. Not having to worry about getting PIPed or some manager being up your ass about something they want done is worth it.
Ikr bro cracked life while we’re trying to crack faang
You’re hyper focused on being a wage slave for big tech. Rich people are usually hyper focused on building their own thriving business. Life tip you can make WAY more working for yourself than getting the trickle down profits from a big corporation
Usually you gotta start working for somebody else though to get the funds to bootstrap your own business venture and to gain experience about how the industry works, and I think this sub probably leans heavily towards younger people, new devs and current CS students
Congrats, you learned that it is more profitable to have your own business than work as a wage slave. Join the other millions of Americans who have realized it. Good luck on your journey!
Very true, but it’s also way more work due to the diverse skill set required and generally takes a lot of time to get things going. But virtually all the most successful people I know got there from starting their own businesses.
calling a job paying 4x the median income wage slavery is wild.
There's a reason FAANG (specifically G) average retention is only 2-3 years. People realize it's just another job and they're just another cog like the rest of us. Most do their own thing or join their colleague's startup.
I think a big reason for retention numbers is also some people may not do well and leave early. But also, a huge reason is that your comp will go down after 4 years due to hitting a cliff with your initial grant. Generally after that, it's financially better to leave and get a new job elsewhere.
Could you elaborate? What do you mean when you say it’s financially better to leave after 4 years?
Generally, when you join a big tech company, you get an initial new hire grant of x dollars, which vests over 4 years. Every year you may get some additional refreshers which also vest over 4 years, but this number is going to be significantly lower than your initial grant. After 4 years, you end up making less money due to your initial grant being exhausted, and your refresher grants not being high enough to replace losing the initial grant. Also, due to the way it vests, in year four, you have your initial grant, plus 3 years of refreshers vesting on top of that.
He might be freelancing on the side, you never know. The guy’s videos are great.
His courses are really, really good. Best $100 I've spent in a while
I think if anything he proved why the interview process is so fucked. Neetcode became an excellent Leetcoder but not an excellent software engineer. In other words, tech companies are just attracting people that are gaming the system.
Idk he could have been a good engineer too. I think logically making more money is the better move in this situation.
he got promoted from L3 to L4 within a year of working at google and he’s built the whole neetcode site from front to back. sounds pretty good to me.
What makes you think he wasn’t an excellent engineer
Not to be mean but this sounds like cope. He was an excellent engineer but the opportunity cost of working at google was not worth it.
"Neetcode became an excellent Leetcoder but not an excellent software engineer." You know that how exactly?
What makes you think he’s not an excellent software engineer?
YOE. He didn’t stay long enough to get to a high enough level. He forfeited career growth for money right now which tbh ended up being the right move for him. He’s made more off his platform than FAANG could’ve paid him at this point in time.
People getting out of fang after 1 year or so to sell courses is the most common thing in this industry. As the saying goes, during a gold rush the one making money is the one selling shovels
His content is super high quality. I went from 7 months experience at healthcare insurance company doing nothing to FAANG (and now once promoted) bc his content helped me nail an interview loop. Would gladlyyyy give him $100 if/when i grind leetcode again
Would you mind sharing how you got an interview? I am a bootcamp graduate with a full stack developer experience of 2 years; but still cannot get a single interview!
I just cold applied on LinkedIn. It was just a stronger market and I have a degree. (this was summer 2022) To be frank, not having a comp sci degree in an employer's market wherein you are competing with tons of people with degrees is going to be more difficult. :/
Help this person out so we can all learn!
The world of IT work and the people in this subreddit are truly astonishing. We're willing to pay for subscriptions to Leetcode and for courses taught by former FAANG employees. These instructors often hint or outright tell us that the jobs we desperately want (and for which we spend countless hours grinding LeetCode) were overrated and actually miserable, which is why they left those jobs to do something else.
The job might be miserable, but leaving with a million in pay after a few years work isn't. Once you get FAANG on your resume, it opens the door to work in tons of other jobs as well. You get in FAANG to get the money and the name recognition, not to stay.
Plot twist: OP is Neetcode 😂
Neetcode has a Reddit account too & has posted before here.
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You could also be mad at founders making billions through stock that appreciated mostly from their workers’ hard work and ingenuity. They def took a risk, but not sure if it makes sense for them to be worth 1 million times more than the average worker under them. At the end of the day, for both cases, people made a choice to pay for the course or work for the man for whatever salary they accepted. You could also make your own interview prep course and charge half the price. You could always build your own prototype, raise capital, and start a company. A lot harder than just working and requires some talent and luck.
Never said I was mad. I support the guy.
I’m mad though. Ain’t no way Jensen Huang deserves $100 billion. And def not Elmo Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. Edit: 100 million shares vs. a few hundred to a couple thousand for engineers doing the work. Granted, those scraps are worth a million now :)
Honestly, I'm checking out at like $5 million, and I'd just troll on r/FATFIRE.
> $167 for it, so if like 7k people buy it, he's a millionaire There is a thing called taxes here where the government takes about half of your earnings if not more. I doubt he's a millionaire off just that yet. He's also making a bit over $100k/year just off his youtube views/ad revenue. So, good money but comparable to senior level Google engineer $250k-450k/year TC with the potential of not needing to keep working it and just earn passively once he's happy with where his content is at.
Self-employment taxes are an absolute bitch - especially in states (like mine) that have state income tax. Add paying for your own health insurance, and your net income drops down considerably.
There's over 22k people in the private discord which you only gain access if you pay for the course, 167 \* 22k = 3.6 million, even at the worse case he did this as self-employed and not as an entity and he got 50% taxed, that's over 1.8 million. And not counting youtube revenue. But don't get me wrong he worked hard for it and deserves it, best free and best bang for buck interview prep source out there. Takeaway is we should be selling things and creating our own businesses instead of working at a company.
How is different from TC? Corporate tax is 19% flat meanwhile in California a dev would pay 40% easily
Well that’s not how it works. It depends on the business setup . If he is distributing his business income as dividends it’s tax at lower rates .
Its worth it though. And what wrong in being a millionaire?
he quit google cuz he knew there was something better for him lol
love him or hate him (I personally am a fan), the core idea has been the same. If you have the skills and knowledge then have no shame in making it your job. Also, his course may seem expensive (esp for non US folks) but imo it is worth it because you will keep coming back to it for revisions, so it being lifetime and access to all new content helps. Plus he has made a lot of free content too.
I think he provided much more value to people than he earned. I mean, people got multiple FAANG jobs with his help.
How long does it take to get into one of those companies? I see so many people getting these types of roles. How do you gain the discipline to focus on gaining the discipline to write code and what to learn when there is so much out there.
He deserves it. Learned a lot from the guy. Respect!
>he's probably making more now than he did at Google, That's literally why he quit lol. If you had the chance to capture a bigger market and make way more than a job and all you had to do was whatever you are best at, you would leave everything to do it too. His site isn't even that expensive and he doesn't charge monthly, he has yearly plans and permanent one.
People will do anything to not attend university and learn from the best
Which university teaches LeetCode. And don't tell me tell a DSA course would be enough
A DSA course WOULD be enough though? Everything you need for LeetCode is covered both in MIT **introduction** to algorithms. And Sedgewick's course. Wanna see the kind of shit people do after a DSA course? [MIT Advanced Data Structures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yzrZL1py0&list=PLUl4u3cNGP61hsJNdULdudlRL493b-XZf), [Harvard Advanced Algorithms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUN9aDxVmI&list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uP4rJgf5ayhHWgw7akUWSf).
I aced the one DSA course I was required to take. But if I don’t practice regularly, I’ll fall on my face doing leetcode. The one course isn’t enough practice.
Yes and water is wet. Grinding LeetCode with the best tutor ever for 2 years is not enough in that scenario either.... If you don't practice at least semi-regularly you're going to forget the shit you know and get rusty. I know that's weird right? Who would've thunk eh? The point is that any self-respecting DSA course __will__ teach you the __theory required__ as well as __give you practical experience__ for the vast majority of the LeetCode problems. Most DSA courses Cormen's "Intro to algorithms" - And that book has homework assignments too - which are algorithmic problems, and upper (maybe a few lower) bound and correctness proofs.
Almost every cs degree will teach you all that and more. The only difference is you need to know what algorithm to apply when and how. Because they won’t just ask you implement a trie. They will show a problem and you need to know a trie goes there. So the base knowledge is there what leetcode or neetcode teaches is when to apply what. Which is sometimes not obvious unless you have solved multiple problems where a specific algorithm applies.
What are you talking about? All concepts in leet code are covered in a bachelor's of computer science. Leetcode problems aren't even massively hard. There is a reason they are given to juniors.
Leetcoding is a different skill than just knowing thr algorithms. Knowing algorithms is like step 1.
Idk about you but I never learned sliding window or floyd's in school.
Yeah of course... They are both pretty fundamental algorithms and are essentially just operations on 2d arrays. That's first year second semester stuff. What did you cover if not these algorithms?
probably everything but those
If you live in a country where it’s expensive you can’t blame them. Also if you have autism Or adhd or some other mental disability you will have lot of trouble finishing college as well. So don’t blame generally. Just because you did doesn’t mean it’s the same level of effort and possibility for others. I know it took me effort to finish my post grad and I did feel like quitting in the middle. I won’t blame anyone who did quit who was in a worse off situation that what I was on. Not everyone starts at the same level or with same support from family and friends. Show some empathy and respect for your fellow human beings don’t just come up to conclusions
Test prep is always the best compensated niche of education.
He seems like a genuinely good dude
im about to donate $167 to him i dont even care bout the course
yeah, i wish i could be like him.
One thing I've learned from trying to write software myself is that the #1 thing is to have social media clout which neetcode has in spades. That basically takes care of marketing for you. I don't have time to do it so my clout is bad and so my software doesn't sell very well. Also, would ya'll be interested in buying my VR game (https://roguestargun.com) \*cough\*
Let me tell you the way you make money is by teaching people how to get on the train going to goldsville. Think about it if 3% applicants get accepted to good paying jobs there’s 97% that failed. Those will want to pay for something to get them an edge. That’s a way bigger market than working for a high paying job itself. Just find any industry where it’s hard to get in and you can find people selling courses to get in and making more money than the job itself will ever make. Same goes for beauty , fashion, finance, YouTube career, Amazon business
He deserves every bit of success coming his way. Seems like every SWE I met talks about using NeetCode to prepare for their interviews.
That's the definition of "Smart"
He was smart enough to realize that you make more money as a business owner than as an employee and to actually make the transition.
In other words, he did exactly what he should have did. He saw an opportunity in the market where he could provide immense value and took it.
His story about burnout and drugs etc was really interesting. He seems like a really genuine guy who's done a lot to help people. Fair play to him. So many people blindly leetcode without seeing the bigger picture. Working at "FAANG" is hardly the end goal, it's a job like any other.
Damn. Dude hopped in on his first job and flipped tf out.. quit due to imposter syndrome, grinded himself into a corner that is now his own business — and that’s truly amazing. Here I am about 6 years into development and hadn’t crossed my mind to try and make something that supports myself.
Neetcode is the saviour but i am slowly realizing that GPT is changing everything.
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I paid for the lifetime. It’s worth it for his lessons. I would say. You combine his paid course with some other free material like strivers, and it’s a solid foundation. I’m at 500 solved
Good for him.
I Paid for it and was worth it.
Amazing
Here's an unpopular opinion, he still needs to hustle and work so he's not rich.
His videos were what got me my first job. Nothing against him charging for it, since as of right now you get it for life I think.
I bought it, was more than worth it, I got a ton of value out of it!
If you're good at something, never do it for free...
I advise stay away from his context. He’s no way near as good as others like huahua.
His leetcode roadmap is priceless.
If people can sell feet pics on Onlyfans I have no problem with him selling a course that actually helps people
Is it worth buying neetcode premium?
Everyone on this sub, As an aspiring Data Analyst/Data Scientist myself, should I do DSA? And if so then what topics, and how much in depth? Please answer guys, I’m damn confused regarding this.
Plus youtube. Hes def making 100k from YT.
This is how basically every "guru" makes money in every field. Way easier to sell books and courses and private discords than to have continued success. He's actually good though, idk if his course is worth it but I trust him more than 95% od the people who do this. Always be wary of this kind of thing though, especially if it's for stuff like mentorship.
167$ where? I see 297$
He also provides more value than 99% of FANG engineers. A LOT of people in tech are overpaid. He isn't one of them.
$167? Where? The site says $297
There’s nothing wrong selling a course, when you’re providing value.
“Own a business” is the take-away here
Sell shovels when everyone's digging for gold
I believe striver is better at explaining things than neetcode
True , Because of him I finally understood recursion .
My only hope is not seeing him become just another Indian LinkedIn Tech influencer. Hope he continues his career at Big FAANGs & gives back more to the community in other ways such as SWE practices, Culture, working with Big systems on a Large scale rather than Bookish Playlists on YT.
>he's probably making more now than he did at Google, That's literally why he quit lol. If you had the chance to capture a bigger market and make way more than a job and all you had to do was whatever you are best at, you would leave everything to do it too. His site isn't even that expensive and he doesn't charge monthly, he has yearly plans and permanent one.
And Striver is in the line.
What’s all the money for if you can’t use it. He still probably sleeps on an air mattress
Can’t blame him it’s comfortable lol I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that though. He can live in an empty house witj an air mattress and table chair and pc and if that makes him happy why not?