I have done around 100 questions on leetcode. 50 medium 50 easy 5 hard Still I need hints to solve leetcode medium questions (around 30% questions) Leetcode hard hints are needed for 80% questions. Also I can solve easy questions in like 15-20 min but medium still takes 40-45 min , sometimes even more. How should I take it forward? It took me around 2 months with work to solve these 100 questions. Any help is appreciated. My target is to clear top interviews by march 2022. Recently rejected in apple, Goldman onsite. Walmart design round, compass round 1(karat) Yoe : 8.5 TC : 40 lpa #leetcode #google #faang
Start giving weekly and biweekly contests. This actually develops your ability to solve a problem in constrained time without any hint on which ds you should use. Just be consistent with your prep. March 2022 is very far you will be ready till December 2021 easily. All the best!
Thanks I will start contests.
I’ve done 600 medium, 100 hard. Still I’m not fully confident for Google/Facebook. Just practice more. But I think luck is the most important.
You can do mock interviews more id start interviewing now. Even apply some startups for some practice. Get some offers flowing. You can leetcode all you want. There’s still a lot of other areas they evaluate on. Obviously being able to solve leetcode helps but there’s no guarantee even if you come up with optimal solutions every time a lot of other factors play a part.
Yes I started mock ok interviews on pramp yesterday. Plan to do 4-5 weekly. I agree there are lot of other things that are needed but we generally learn those during regular jobs .
Find out which area is slowing you down. Is it the figuring out of the DS, finding a brute force algo or the coding part of it. Then keep ironing out your weaknesses. This method brings much more progress instead of trying to get faster over all. Just like any hard problem, split the hard problem of getting good in interviews into smaller problems.
Thanks I have identified areas and will work on that.