Karat interview experience

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Sep 1, 2021 13 Comments

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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  • Had 20 mins sys design quick fire.

    And 40 mins for algos.

    I spent 40 mins on 1 algo…(I’d say LC medium)
    Sep 1, 2021 7
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      Wow. I am 50% there then. Need lot of preparation to get anywhere close to FAANG level interviews.
      Sep 1, 2021
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      @obneiric. These companies pay peanut salaries and expect rock stars and ninjas 😂🤦‍♀️
      Sep 1, 2021
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    gOiK53

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    gOiK53
    I absolutely hate Karat. I now decline interviews that have Karat rounds
    Sep 1, 2021 0
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    💎🖐🥜😂😭😅😎100

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    💎🖐🥜😂😭😅😎100
    Karat sucks that is all I wanted to say
    Sep 1, 2021 1
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      Please explain.
      Sep 1, 2021
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    TnHg47

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    TnHg47
    The Leet Code style questions are really a mater of practice to a large extent. It is helpful to get quick to recognize patterns between different questions and make use of algorithms you are familiar with. It also helps to get quick with debugging by printing things out and getting familiar with time saving library functions in your language of choice.

    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.
    Sep 2, 2021 1
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      I gave my best and I couldn’t clear it. I agree I need lot of practice to score 2 problems in 45 mins. Sometimes I don’t understand if it’s a DP or not. Any
      advice??
      Sep 4, 2021