Senior Software Engineers and LeetCode With Ilya Pimenov

Beyond Coding

Connect with Ilya Pimenov:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-pimenov

Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/wN6aolC_YCM

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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