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

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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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