TheOneYouWant AMA

Shubham (aka TheOneYouWant) is one of my best friends I've met through CP.
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Chapters -
00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - How did you manage to qualify for ICPC World Finals 3 times.
04:25 - What is your most memorable ICPC experience?
07:50 - How much maths is required for coding?
09:40 - What would be one advice you could give to a student who has never been part of a competitive peer environment like prestigious institutes have?
11:10 - Do you miss your IIT Bombay days?
12:25 - How much has an MS degree helped you after graduating from IITB? As in I would like to know about how much is the exposure to research in Stanford as compared to IITB. Also, could you please discuss about if the MS degree is favourable for your career as a quant.
14:55 - (Head) TA at stanford
16:45 - What do you do after work?
17:27 - Could you share some advice for higher studies application, specifically to high ranked CS courses in the United States?
18:15 - What is your daily routine?
19:45 - What do you do to keep yourself fit?
22:15 - How much challenging it was to qualify through North American regionals compared to Indian regionals?
25:20 - How to get referrals at Quant firms?
27:00 - Good resources to prepare for an upcoming quant internship?
29:05 - What should be the average rating on codeforces to breeze through regionals?
30:35 - What is the most essential skill required for the ICPC?
33:55 - Any valuable advise for the beginners and grandmasters?
36:50 - What happened to your race to IGM challenge? How to develop skill issue?
39:45 - How many times did you get to use advanced algorithms like FFT, HLD, generating functions, etc?
40:55 - Can you share some insights from your internship at EPFL? How was your experience living in Europe?
44:10 - Is it possible to get internship while being Candidate Master?
45:40 - Were you active in any clubs in college?
49:20 - Do you think exam structure outside India is better than Indian Institutes?
50:20 - Any comments on AI solving 3000+ rated codeforces problem?
51:10 - Do quant companies at IITs ask hard OA tests? Did you apply for any quant company when you were in IIT?
51:50 - What's your favorite manga series?
52:15 - Thank You for joining today.

[@SmeshItNam]

Sir we want the next interview to be yours.... Please 😅😅

[@aryanc403]

Sabra ka fal meetha hota hai.
It will definitely come, but it will take its own time. :)

[@namishkhotre]

Yeah quant companies do ask hard questions. Once Utkarsh gupta from iit bhu who is currently working at Graviton Research mentioned that graviton asked him a 3000 rated question in the oas.

[@s_3095]

Bhai kafi jaldi upload kr diye 😂, muze laga 2025 main hi ayega

[@ppl_call_me_tima]

Thanks for this! Pretty interesting

[@aryanc403]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@its_SR07]

just curious , @Aryan why didnt you applied enough in Quant roles?

[@Ani_86_]

True I also have the same question😅

[@meenakshirandev4917]

Nice video

[@vaibhavmangar2677]

sir please improve your audio setup. in every stream your voice is breaking up.

[@TheViral_fyp]

Bhai koi book suggest kar do DSA in java ?

[@aryanc403]

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Unfortunately, "Competitive Programing 3" is in C++.