1 hour interview with 2 system design questions and 2 leetcode mediums(?)
Design Fb clone etc .. I was thinking through the problem and explained my design. After few mins, he said “times up. Let’s move on to the next question”.. same thing happened for the next question.
I was able to solve first string manipulation question in 30 mins. It’s easy to medium and that left me with 15 mins for a dp question (longest contiguous strings in lists). I started and it ended.
Am I missing something here? are we expected to solve 2 leetcode mediums (slightly above) in 45 mins??.. I am new to this leetcode thing and solved 25 easy and 20 mediums. Any suggestions to speed things up?.. Thanks.
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And 40 mins for algos.
I spent 40 mins on 1 algo…(I’d say LC medium)
For Karat specifically, they focus on completeness so you should focus on getting the simplest algorithm to implement to optimize for speed and make it less likely to have bugs. For instance, the second question you mentioned does not require DP to solve (not even for an optimal solution) so there are much simpler algorithms that can likely be written quicker.
advice??