about me: Graduated college from a no name school this summer, worked as a SDET for a week before realizing there wouldn’t be any coding involved, so took the risk and quit to focus on studying full time for a better opportunity. Currently got ~50 LC done, and I am doing CTCI. Should I try to learn any stack or solely focus on LC and CTCI ? If that matters at all my goal is to get a SDE job in Seattle area
I will say start applying aggressively in Seattle based companies with REFERRAL. That's super important. You can reach out to people via LinkedIn, fb to get referrals. On the side keep doing the LC questions.
Pm me if you need Amazon referral. Lots of openings
Nice call on quitting I think you did the right move if your goal is programming. I would recommend a book called elements of programming interviews in conjuction with LC, and you will be golden. Try to get to 150 LC mediums and 50 LC hards before applying.
How does cracking the coding interview compare to element of programming?
Cracking the coding interview is easier and simpler. Elements of programing interviews mainly has questions for each topic and the questions are tricky, so if you study them, you will be better prepared in my opinion.