Interiewed at amzn 3 months ago and did decent but no offer. Trying to 1.5x my paltry 97k TC (5 YOE). Since then I’ve been doing LC nonstop and I am having a hard time tackling problems I was doing with ease a month before my amzn interview. Currently working on monolithic CRUD desktop apps in a 20 year old tech stack. Anyone else run into this? I can’t even brute force most mediums. It’s like my brain just won’t think in that way. Advice to continue? TC: 97 YEO: 5 Virgin: Yes
Get laid, and take a break. Try not to overthink things.
Play some videogames and go for morning runs, meditate, helps with interview fatigue a lot
There is something wrong if you are "having a hard time tackling problems I was doing with ease a month before...". Did you try to memorize or what?
No I was solidly doing them from just a problem solving perspective. No memorization
Stop doing LC and start doing some side projects for fun (or even better paid). You won't be memorizing and you'll actually be building marketable skills.
This
Nope, only leetcode matters. https://mobile.twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
Try not to think of the outcome. I always suck with cerebral stuff when I am bogged down thinking about what is at stake. This is probably one if the reasons people are at their best when they have nothing to lose.
Take a break and relax then resume your studying
Is mentioning your sexual status a new blind thing that I am not aware of? You shouldn't bother much about not being able to solve something you were able to do 3 months ago, if you were kinda relaxing for past 3 months and didn't study much. This is just like stamina, you stop exercising and in no time you will lose your strength/stamina. It takes motivation to start again and persevere to keep going. If you have these two, you should be able to regain, and be better than your previous version, in no time. I see that you have the motivation because you started your prep again. You just need to be patient and keep going. Good luck.
Was I the OP? Dang almost on an6 identical boat... i gave up lc (for the time being..) I am tiny bit happier but hurts everytime I start seeing those TC of others.. thanks for sharing this..
You need to make a few changes to way you practise. Setup a minimum bar for youself and keep revision what you have done. It will come on its own. One more thing we learn in manu ways. Obe thing is copy or memoization. It is not a bad approach. The more you solve or read better it will be
Sleep. Eat properly. Take a short break from LC.