Am I ready for FAANG interview? LeetCode performance
I have been prepping for FAANG interviews and following are my LeetCode stats after 2 months. Problem Solved -200 Easy - 109 Medium - 82 Hard - 9 Last 4 LeetCode contest average rank 1200 Today Solved 1 medium and 1 hard tree problem in 50 minutes with run time beats 97% I have also been working on System design interviews. TC:190k YOE: 11
What was your the strategy for Leetcoding for two months how do you keep yourself motivated and determined and on schedule to continue practicing?
Before leetcode I did all easy questions(~175) on HackerRank to get back in groove. I believe I'm underpaid and works with mediocre people and to give better means to my family I have to up my game. That's my anchor which is keeping me motivated and determined.
Yes
How are your leadership principles?
I'm always learning, taking initiatives, helping colleagues, sharing with them whenever I solve something complex so that we do better next time. Always putting customer satisfaction first. Good listener.
I did like 60 questions and barely tried. It seems like you overdid it buddy. You'll be way more than fine if you're not a robot during your interviews.
You want everyone to say you genius by cracking fb with 60 questions? Kids!
Hell no, I got lucky. I'm just saying 200 questions with effort is way more than enough and they got nothing to be worried about. If I can do it anyone can was my point.
How you solved the LC problems is far more important than how many problems you’ve solved.
I always start with notebook or whiteboard, solve some examples, rough algorithm, find time complexity, if I find that with given constraints I need to do better, I keep on optimizing, I code when I feel I can pass required constraints.
Sounds like you’re ready.
Top runtime solutions are always horrible
Yeah I always wonder why people are so obsessed with minimum number of lines to solve a problem by sacrificing readability
With 11 yoe , interviews would be mostly system design and architecture
I gave Facebook phone screen 2 years ago and failed miserably. And as per my research I'll get both algorithm and system design
Hmm I guess you are right. Phone screens are usually coding on coderpad. Any research on the on site interviews?
100 problems per month? Rookie numbers. I bet you still had dinners with normal food or even had a social life like a normal human being
Yup 🙂
can you solve a random hard DP problem on leetcode in an hour?
I did not do lot of hard problems. I can mostly write top down solution for dp problem. I'm starting hard problems now.
LC milliseconds run time on a single problem is hardly meaningful or predictive with regard to interview performance. And their contests are bottom tier compared to others like Codeforces. Other factors such as communication ability are far more important.
Thanks, I agree. For most of the problems I usually solve within top 5% run time. Also my acceptance rate is good. I do check lot of edge cases before submitting. I do use whiteboard for some problems before coding and think out loud.
That's good (especially checking edge cases). I wish you best of luck in recruiting. It's time to get paid fairly and move on from that undercompensated job.