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Consistent and Persistent: This Scrimba Student Battled Depression and Landed a Job at Amazon After 1000 LeetCode Challenges

🎙 About the episode


Meet Khaidem Sandip Singha 🇺🇸! He's a Scrimba student from Assam, India, who recently got a job at Amazon! 🎉 Originally, he studied civil engineering before realizing he was more interested in coding. In this episode, you'll hear how he learned to code, battled depression, and reverse-engineered a path to a FANG company.

You will also learn about his approach to problem-solving and the benefits of practicing on LeetCode - not many students we interviewed did that, but Khaidem completed one thousand challenges! He also shares some details about Amazon's interview process and his approach to keeping up motivation.

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⏰ Timestamps

  • How Khaidem went from civil engineering to learning to code (01:41)
  • Chasing coding certificates or mastering the basics - what is more important for landing your first developer job? (03:20)
  • How Khaidem reverse-engineered the path to a FANG company (04:33)
  • Should you do LeetCode (06:01)
  • The importance of consistency and persistency (07:16)
  • Why Khaidem focused on LeetCode (08:34)
  • Try different frameworks, but then specialize (12:09)
  • Khaidem's approach to problem-solving (13:57)
  • How Khaidem started his job search while suffering from depression (17:47)
  • Khaidem's first jobs and how he knew he was overqualified (21:41)
  • How Khaidem discovered Scrimba around Javascriptmas 2020 (23:15)
  • Why Khaidem benefited from the Scrimba community (24:15)
  • How Khaidem applied for Amazon (25:15)
  • Amazon's interview process (27:18)
  • How Khaidem got an offer, and why it's important to keep up motivation (30:03)
  • Why you shouldn't give up (31:42)

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