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How is this even possible? I can maybe understand 1 easy, 1 medium. But 2 mediums??? What? Are we talking easier medium problems or regular to harder mediums? I've been studying a lot and its a bit discouraging to think I gotta come up with optimal solutions to 2 mediums in less than 45 minutes. Give me some hope! TC 144K YOE 8 #engineering #software #swe #leetcode
It’s possible if you’re a superstar or have seen the problems before. I did it and now I’m off to Meta.
Only LinkedIn and Meta expect this. Rest all the companies are sane enough to ask only 1.
Guess you missed my Google interview.
^funny that you mentioned Google because all my onsites only had 1 question per round
Practice like a beast
https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/best-practice-questions/ This is from the guy who gifted us blind 75. Focus on the patterns my friend. It's hard but not impossible. Use spaced repetition- revise the problems again and again. Target top 100 or last 6 months for the company
https://codellama.dev/about Recommend using this site for space repetition of Blind 75
Dude wtf codellama sounds amazing for LC. Wish I had found that a month ago before failing Meta phone screen :/ Def using that in the future.
I assume you’re talking about Meta as this is their bar. I interviewed for them 3 weeks ago and it’s true 2 questions in 45 mins. All questions were on the border between easy/med. and none had any tricks. They were all standard, Leetcode type questions where the solution was about 20 lines long. Very doable in the given time. I didn’t have to employ any complicated theory to solve them. Just basic string manipulation/array work. With a hash map or two thrown in.
wow no hard questions? that's surprising to me. good to know. cheers.
LC Medium has shifted quite a bit though. Consider that LRU cache used to be a LC Hard but is now medium. If you had never solved it before, good luck solving it and another LC Medium in 45 minutes. Even problems that require Disjoint Set are often considered Mediums or even Easy in some cases, but most people never learned about the Disjoint Set data structure in undergrad. Languages like Java don’t have a built-in Disjoint Set, so you would have to write it from scratch potentially.
how many LCs per day are you solving brah?
I'm trying to do 3-5 mediums per day and a hard here and there. I actually find the hard questions more enjoyable since they are more relatable to real world problems in most cases. I'd rather solve a hard in an interview than 2 mediums. Call me crazy.
It's possible.. you just need practice. Give yourself about a month or two and set up a time table and stick to it. 2 hours a day and probably 4 on weekend. You will master LC in no time . Also if you are looking for a senior position you need to start preparing for system design. I took almost 6 months of time for prepping I have an offer from Meta E5 . Good luck 🤞
Yeah I've started studying the system design stuff. Doing the grokking course. A little nervous about this since. I've done system design on an embedded level but not larger scale stuff. Doesn't seem to bad based on grokking though
Grokking is good but a little shallow. Read up DDIA book ( this takes time ) . Lots of videos online aswell .
If it’s not DP, I was generally able to crank out medium questions in 10 minutes. I did do about 600 in 4 months across the board of topics/difficulty
Keep grinding my man
If you ever feel like how it is possible in 45 mins, read this comment again.
Infinite loop... how to come out