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

<p><strong>🎙 About the episode</strong></p><p><br><strong>Meet Khaidem Sandip Singha 🇺🇸! </strong>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.</p><p>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. </p><p><strong>🔗 Connect with Khaidem</strong></p><ul> <li>👨‍💼 <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/khaidemsandip">Linkedin</a> </li> <li><a href="https://github.com/KaidenCoder">👩‍🚀 GitHub</a></li> <li>🌐  <a href="https://leetcode.com/Kurosakicoder/">LeetCode profile</a> </li> </ul><p>⏰<strong> Timestamps</strong></p><ul> <li>How Khaidem went from civil engineering to learning to code (01:41)</li> <li>Chasing coding certificates or mastering the basics - what is more important for landing your first developer job? (03:20)</li> <li>How Khaidem reverse-engineered the path to a FANG company (04:33)</li> <li>Should you do LeetCode (06:01)</li> <li>The importance of consistency and persistency (07:16)</li> <li>Why Khaidem focused on LeetCode (08:34)</li> <li>Try different frameworks, but then specialize (12:09)</li> <li>Khaidem's approach to problem-solving (13:57)</li> <li>How Khaidem started his job search while suffering from depression (17:47)</li> <li>Khaidem's first jobs and how he knew he was overqualified (21:41)</li> <li>How Khaidem discovered Scrimba around Javascriptmas 2020 (23:15)</li> <li>Why Khaidem benefited from the Scrimba community (24:15)</li> <li>How Khaidem applied for Amazon (25:15)</li> <li>Amazon's interview process (27:18)</li> <li>How Khaidem got an offer, and why it's important to keep up motivation (30:0