We are truly in the Hackathon Era – Namanh Kapur interview [Podcast #180]

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Namanh Kapur. He's a senior software engineer at LinkedIn. He also creates YouTube videos to help devolopers with their careers.

We talk about:

• Tips for getting hired in the post-Leetcode world

• Tips for cold-DM'ing recruiters and for guessing their email addresses

• Why AI tools are going to lead to developers doing less repetitive work and more creative problem solving

• And which foundational developer skills he thinks you should priortize learning

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](https://www.donate.freecodecamp.orgLinks)Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Namanh's video about two legendary Google engineers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0I4f8Rbis

• Namanh Kapur on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/namanhkapur/?hl=en