I am losing my hope I can handle LC hard. But I am senior already :(
I would say , find a company that doesn't ask LC questions
Try msft, they ask only LC easy and medium
How many LC easy and mediums have you solved ? (Solved = coded from scratch and committed on GitHub I your repo). Don't lose heart till you have solved 100. Things become easy from there. How many times each have you implemented .. dfs, bfs, heap, priority queue, in pre post order, djkasta, kmeans, topological sort in last 100 days?
About 200, 100 each. But I can’t do hard. I look at the solutions !!!
Surprising that you are losing heart with that much prep. When you have already prepared so much then just start interviewing. In my experience with Google, Bloomberg and Wayfair.. no one asked a real hard q.
How much TC are you expecting? What's your current. With lc mediums you can get L4 .. 250k range.
That is still better than my TC and the last 9 months, I don’t learn anything new !
Then chill. And start interviewing. Don't worry whether you are Sr engineer or not. Let them be the judge of what designation they want to give. No shame is being called a janitor if you get quarter million a year. I know plenty colleagues from my past jobs who call themselves Sr. Staff engineers at Oracle or IBM but know less engineering than a new grad... And getting paid even less.
Are you not able to get LC hard at all or are you missing edge cases/ suboptimal etc? Are there basic foundations that you are having issues with?
It usually takes me too long and yes, I miss edge cases. Same with medium, I got it but I usually take me 2 hrs
Have you taken any notes on what you’re missing? I don’t think LC is a great way to learn, it’s better for practice and building speed. When you look up answers are you typically surprised and you learn new things or is it stuff you know but you didn’t think the problem out fully?
Sap
Wayfair. You have to be good at SQL but can be shit at actual software engineering and still get a senior role if that's the kind of thing you're into.
I encountered no hard at FB, Dropbox, Oracle, hedge fund etc... Only Uber gave me hard qs.
Lol
Are 59+ years old?
40
Get ready for a long haul if you are slipping already