Stay away. Avoid it at all costs. Just grab grokking and leetcode for 6 months. I signed up with them. I would not recommend it at all. They’re there to just take your money. They will give you an illusion of an excellent support system and a vibrant community. But it’s all a joke. The goal is to take money from gullible aspirants. If you’re new to computer science and have no basic knowledge of how algorithms work you could try them on but for anyone who has ever attempted some leetcode mediums this will be an entire waste of money. Stay away. DM me if you want more details.
I also got conned by those people. Absolute waste of money. You’re actually better off learning from YouTube.
OTOH I used IK and had a slightly better experience. I didn’t struggle with Leetcode, but more around behavioral and system design questions. IK helped me in structuring my answers better for both, especially system design. I was able to get 4 offers, one of which was Amazon. However the support system and vibrant community doesn’t exist. You’re kinda left on your own to follow up, join any calls they randomly schedule. There were some really loud, annoying AF people who kept answering or interrupting without regard for others. I heard recordings and took their mock sessions instead of attending live sessions for my peace of mind.
Yeah , live and mock sessions are available at many others. IK sucks. They aren’t needed for it. Others reading this thread please be aware of them. Do not waste money on them. Only if you’re newbie to all this. Their sales pitch is like , for a salary of 400k 6k spending on the course is nothing. Very compelling. Go buy a time share. That’s a better investment :) not very different in a sales pitch.
I attended IK in 2021 when Omkar took many floaters covering hard problems on a regular cadence. Is he not teaching there any more?
Its funny how people fall for services like Ik. It is meant to fill their pockets(sales pitch 500k offers etc.) not yours. If Fang is meant for you, you will do it and if it is not no matter what you do, it won't happen. Ik has nothing to do with it. kudos @ BJMk88 for awareness. people are lazy enough to search on blind(on real reviews) and many posts are done by marketing team etc. So it gets hard for people to filter data from noise. I won't be surprised on the fact that this post/thread will be deleted by marketing team soon.
IK marketing team can remove posts from others on Blind? How does that work ?
1) they can pay blind to do it. 2) they can flag a post which they feel 'in appropriate' 3) they can pay blind to hide such posts from users and only display posts that 'oh i went to ik and cracked 5-6 fang offers making 1M etc.' .. all marketing gimmicks
I went through IK and benefitted immensely but not from the things they advertise and sell which are indeed superfluous for the most part and also expensive. The webinar promises a lot of things but quality of delivery isn't there. IMO the only special thing about them is the content and classes taken by Omkar. But these classes were not part of the program, they were experimental classes called floater sessions taken by him which covered hundreds of medium and hard problems across all topics in algorithms. I was invited to attend many of these randomly (ik's ops team decides who gets to attend) and got recordings of them for other topics that I wasnt invited to. There is a cross cohort discord server consisting of IK alums (not managed by IK) where people pool together information about these special classes. The ops team will not give these to you on their own. You have to ask them for it.
What is the discord?
Meta : could you ease share discord information?
I agree IK is quite average. Only great things is omkar videos. For mock interviews better go with interviewing.in
They are waste of money especially for 9K. Teachers are mostly shit. They just leave you in abyss in support period. All that 1:1 coaching thing is kinda scam. Only good thing is omkar videos. I was getting 3+ in all my mock interviews couldn’t convert much interviews in real world.
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