Just need to rant.. been leetcoding for 10 months now doing 1-3 problems a day. I have my first big tech interview in 2 weeks and im totally going to bomb it. I cant solve unseen mediums optimally. I can usually get the brute force, and can usually identify the “pattern” the problem falls into but cant come up with the “trick” to solve it, and even if i can, never in <30 minutes. Honestly i just accept im too dumb for this career. Was never naturally good at math or programming. TC: 90k YOE: <1 LC count: 200
You know LC 200 is a small number. Do you?
Is it? I see people on here pass 7+ interviews just doing blind 75 and some tagged questions
Because blind 75 used to be enough for 80% of problems that companies would ask. I am not sure if that's the case anymore. If it's any consolation, I only recently started solving most of the unknown mediums below the 15 mins mark and for that I had to go over 300 problems.
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LC interviews have little to do with "math or programming", they test 20% of pattern recognition/replication and 80% of luck. You are not dumb OP
Thanks! I prob need to practice some more, but some of these obscure mediums and hards i have no idea how u could do that in 30 minutes with clean working code
I’m basically retarded and can smash leetcode interview. Also 200 problem in 10 months is sad. If you can solve any one of the blind 75 easily you’ll be fine
I can solve any of the blind 75 easily (and most of neetcode 150) but thats just bc ive done them a few times over. New problems i struggle with. Whats ur study strategy?
Do each node in this roadmap until I am expert level at the topic then practice tagged questions for companies that I’m interested in https://neetcode.io/roadmap My 2 cents is to focus on graphs I’ve been asked about then I’m every on site I’ve ever had
It’s a lot like day trading - with enough time and practice, you can see it. 90% of people can’t see it, and it makes people think you’re really smart just because you put a lot of time in.
Thank you!!! I guess i just have to be persistent. After all i have progressed a lot since starting
I did a write up on preparing for coding interviews for Meta. Read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/1c7fs3o/i_passed_meta_e6_hiring_committee_screenfullloop/ Let me know if you have any questions after.
This is awesome! I did pretty similar to you. You think i should spend the next 2 weeks revising hard neetcode problems and top 50 microsoft (about 70 total)
@aEDk18 I'll add some thoughts as an addendum to my original reddit post for you 1) Watch this short 4 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_3bQ-EWSI If you have 2 weeks left, I'd probably spend the next 10 days going hard at one topic to the next. If you aren't good with say Hashmaps, do 5 hours of hashmap problems today. Get them completely down pat. Then move onto another single topic for the remainder of the day. Get in 8+ hours of leet a day if you can, or whatever you can. Topic by topic for 10 days. Leave notes at the very top of your submissions on your approach, because you'll use these later. 2) In the last 4-6 days, try and pump out as many leetcode problems as you can under the label "Top <MAANG Company Name> Questions". Try and attempt all 50 Easy and Hard. 3) Don't worry if you can't solve them in 45 mins, don't get discouraged. There are many that I couldn't as well, nowhere near within 15-20 mins, and I still passed the interview and did very well in all the codings. 4) Leave yourself notes at the top in comments of all your leetcode submissions. With 24 hours left before your interview, you'll be able to go through all top 50 questions, and just read the comments you left for yourself in about 90 minutes. It's great prep to recall that piece of memory on how to solve each one. 5) Like I mentioned in the post, communication is the most important. Get a friend to give you a mock interview, and practice that. I'm really good at that part. I can talk the entire time, talk as I write, communicate all my thoughts, if I get stuck I just share that thought, etc. Be clear. It also helps avoid nerves, because if you stop talking and withdraw the anxiety ramps up, so share those thoughts!
Honestly maybe if you cant get the patterns at 200 lc. Its pretty much just, sliding window, bfs, some simpler dp, and some tree recursion and thats all leetcode is
I started using http://marble.wiki/ which adds interactive walkthroughs to all LC problems. It helps nudge/guide you toward the correct solution by talking back and forth.
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I have one, interviewing for MS cleared but going to fail the interview