How to get back to leetcode?

Sep 5, 2021 30 Comments

You know when you give a long gap for something that you trained for and made good progress, for example, running and then you didn’t run for 6 months, you have to start from step 1 all over again. This is how I feel with Lc, haven’t done it 6+ months, and I have that feeling of “eh who cares I’m gonna suck at it anyway” and I keep postponing it, simply don’t want to face that horrible feeling “damn I understood this problem before I don’t remember anything now, do I have to do this again”

Any tips anyone got here, people who have gone through this feeling but aced the prep and secured multiple offers?

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  • Amazon
    hmack

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    hmack
    I recently interviewed with 8 companies in a month and cracked 5 out of them. So answering this question:

    What helped me is going through my old notes, I write a lot of tips and tricks as I LC.
    Examples -
    1. Need specific ordering -> Topological sort.
    2. Need shortest path -> BFS
    3. Need to manipulate already seen entities based on new entities - Stack.

    As you LC, come up with such patterns and write them down. After a couple of months, LC becomes a lot easier.
    Sep 5, 2021 10
    • Tesla
      eløn

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      YMMV!
      eløn
      @hmack congrats!
      I have the bases covered for most topics,
      mind sharing types of questions you saw at G?
      are they twisted or straight from top Google LC?
      Mediums? Hards?
      I have an interview next week
      Sep 6, 2021
    • Amazon
      hmack

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      hmack
      I never checked Google top questions, I was quite confident that I won't crack it and I already had an offer from Uber at that point (maybe not caring about it helped). So I am not sure if my questions were from LC.

      Some of my questions were a little difficult to understand and took a bit of time to fully comprehend (not very complex though), but solutions were certainly not difficult. 2 questions I solved work priority queue and 2 others I solved with BFS. Maybe I just got lucky with interviewers not checking what others were asking and the strategies overlapped.

      Also note that they first lowballed me with L3, then upleveled later to L4. So my performance was not great, just decent enough.
      Sep 6, 2021
  • Microsoft / Other
    Ⅾrunk@Work

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    Ⅾrunk@Work
    Easy. Pay someone to do your code interview.
    Sep 5, 2021 2
  • Amazon
    LTgw71

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    LTgw71
    I am doing the grokking interview course on educative and its really nice. Its divides the problems into some 16 or so patterns. Really helps you understand the questions to the core pattern.
    Sep 5, 2021 2
  • I think it’s like going to the gym.
    If you were big before and now you’re skinny, since you muscle have memory you will get back to form in no time, but it’s still gonna hurt getting back there.

    Just don’t give up, and keep on the grind.
    Sep 5, 2021 0
  • New
    L38VXK

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    L38VXK
    OP, think of it in the inverse, not about what you lost, but what about you are losing by postponing this. It only gets harder, but the small gains add up over time.

    Plus, getting back to somewhere you already were is a lot easier than finding your way there the first time.
    Sep 5, 2021 1