How NeetCode Turned Two Months of Hell at Amazon Into a Million-Dollar Business

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00:00 Introduction & The Amazon Nightmare
02:06 Processing Trauma & Amazon's Culture Problem
07:36 What Actually Happened at Amazon Alexa
09:12 Linear Partnership Announcement
10:55 Mental Health & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
16:22 Why Neetcode Videos Became the Gold Standard
20:54 Google Reality: Bureaucracy Killed the Joy
26:03 Can AI One-Shot Neetcode.io?
30:33 Advice for CS Students in the AI Era
34:10 1000 Rejections: Breaking the Rules to Get Hired
38:25 Rapid Fire: Vibe Coding, Infrastructure & Tech Twitter

Episode Description:
Navdeep Singh (Neetcode) opens up about his devastating two-month stint at Amazon that led to unemployment and mental health struggles, before building a YouTube empire with over 1 million subscribers. We discuss the realities of Big Tech, why coding interviews persist, and whether AI will replace programmers.