Senior Software Engineers and LeetCode With Ilya Pimenov

Connect with Ilya Pimenov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-pimenov Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/wN6aolC_YCM Beyond Coding Podcast with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Powered by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! OUTLINE 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:27 - Starting your career as full stack developer? 00:02:57 - Learning every day 00:04:45 - Product managers talk to A LOT of people 00:07:31 - Ilya's career path 00:11:31 - Staff engineer challenges 00:13:34 - Patrick's next career steps 00:15:45 - Entrepreneurship and individual contributor skills 00:19:24 - Listening to internet traffic 00:25:05 - Comfort with ambiguity 00:27:45 - Fully understanding LLMs 00:29:58 - The biggest impact is in backend development 00:31:33 - Great Frontend engineers 00:33:05 - Why people use LeetCode in interviews 00:38:21 - LeetCode exercises transfer to software development 00:39:23 - Hiring for potential 00:40:56 - Investing in LeetCode opens doors 00:42:33 - System design interview 00:44:26 - Getting better at LeetCode 00:47:39 - Why people hate LeetCode 00:48:27 - Legendary LeetCode solver couldn't deliver as engineer 00:50:02 - What makes a great senior engineer 00:54:00 - Dealing with ambiguity is a life skill 00:56:41 - Buying and renovating 00:59:55 - Modular home 01:03:20 - Startup failures and learnings 01:07:18 - Hustling and executing