Meta interviews: Leetcode review strategy?
Passed the phone screen, but now that means I have 2 more coding rounds coming up. Is it better to: A) Repeatedly review the top 200 Facebook tagged questions until you can write them all out in a couple of minutes B) Go further down the list for more breadth I feel like the standard answer for some companies like Google would be to go for breadth since they may have a huge question bank and give you a bit more time. However in my phone screen I got a question that I had practiced literally 4 hours earlier from the top 200 and I think I might not have coded it perfectly in time if I hadn't. And the other question was a simplified version of another on the top 200. The fact that you have to be so fast in Meta interviews means drilling for speed might be more important, so A could be optimal? TC 310k #meta #leetcode
If you can do this for the top 200 questions you are way ahead of the crowd buddy.
Drobox - onedayatim - how about guys like me who recently started let's say one month and currently at array, string, pascals triangle, etc fast thinking - more problems in less duration? Slow thinking - understand patterns, less problems but in say more duration? Or combination? I understand practice is important but any tips?
Are those questions directly from 200 Medium LC list?
Yes, with minor changes. It took me a minute to recognize one of them just because of the way they worded it.
I start from 1 and by the time I reach 50 I have already forgotten 1.
If you truly want memorization you need to use spaced repetition technique. It's scientifically proven to decrease time to memorize. Mochi and anki can automatically do this for you, but you have to input the leetcode URL as a flash card. Then you use the app, Mark the card as pass/fail, and it will re run the question in the optimal interval for you to memorize it fastest. Obviously if you mark pass, those questions will be asked at a later date, but fail will be sooner. Regardless, it will never ask same question every day in a row, that doesn't work as well. It spaces it.
What is anki and mochi apps or techniques ?
If you have memorized top 200 and drilled under 20 minutes, you're good. If they throw a curve ball at that point that you somehow can't apply all of that knowledge to, then the interviewer just wants you to fail anyway.
What made you decide on 200? I was going to do 100-150
I did the mock interview (Meta offers one for free) and one of the questions asked was kinda far down the list, so I decided the top 200 would be better.
Though I actually didn't do all the hards, I did all the hards in the top 100 and skipped some of the lower ones.
I did A. Cracked E6
Now way, FB is out from my target list
Were the phonescreen questions from the LC tagged list? Mediums only?
Yes, both mediums from the top 200 FB tagged questions in the last 6 months
How do you filter for last 6 months?