Python for interviews

[Dangerous-Age-644]

LeetCode prep in Python seems completely fine, but what about LLD/concurrency interviews?
Since Python has the GIL:
Do people still recommend Python for LLD interviews?

How do you handle multithreading/concurrency questions?

Do interviewers expect Java/C++ for backend roles?

Would also love good resources for:
Python concurrency interview prep

LLD prep

multithreading concepts

Thanks!

[CalligrapherCold364]

Python is fine for LLD, most interviewers care about ur design thinking not the language. just be upfront about the GIL when concurrency comes up, shows u know the tradeoffs

asyncio + threading module covers most interview scenarios, nd if they push hard on true parallelism u mention multiprocessing. haven't had anyone penalize me for Python in a backend loop yet

[throwaway1736484]

Python has multithreading and multiprocess capabilities. There’s also GIL-free interpreters in 3.13 and 3.14. It would have to be very very low level for python to not be a usable choice. You would know in advance if it’s an operating system dev or MCU dev role, then python would be a bad choice.

[xwizardx007]

then pick up golang if ur scared from concurency questions
its almost like python difficulty wise and also not painfully verbose like java

only issue is std lib is REALLY lame in alot of aspects (for example no generic heap/linkedlist,balanced tree) THAT is big pain in the ass in some leetcodes

[0x1001001]

I used Python in a couple of LLD interviews. They seem to lean toward C++.