Overwhelming preparation
Starting with interview prep. Too much to prepare. I just feel overwhelmed and then get distracted. Initial inertia is quite hard to break. I had worked hard to be able to solve hard ones in 35-40 mins. A few months gap and it's gone. It's taking an hour for mediums. And now it has to be done all again, one day at a time. Can mostly readily get into other companies except Google. All algorithmic heavy lifting to be done again. Mind says "It's just yet another company. Why die so much? Why spend so much of time into it?" but heart says "C'mon let's do it." Rant ends.
Following, I am feeling similar. Tryin to take it easy but with some progress in lc. but a lot to prepare beside just algos :[
Hi there, been LCing for 11 months.
How is the progress?
Not bad. Got an offer from a company last summer whose TC was too similar to make the jump. Have some onsites scheduled in the next few weeks with companies not too high on my list
I usually schedule one or two onsites atleast with one month Gap in between. These two onsites are at companies I don't want to work for. That motivates me and forces me to get used to the grind.
I'll schedule an interview somewhere.
I am in same phase....
Which companies are you targetting?
FAANG Got rejection many times. But I will not Give Up!! I am in same situation as you. I did 250+ LC and landed in Barclays. Stopped preparing because I was busy in learning tech stack at Barclays. Now I started studying again( have Amazon onsite and LinkedIn phone interview), and I am feeling that I forgot everything. But my mind is saying I can do it.
I am also feeling the same. I’m New Grad and I have a Amazon offer in hand, but I feel like I want to get better offer from FAANG. So, I’m still doing LC, but lost motivation for it.
this is different situation though. congrats on your amazon offer!
I find that I stay more motivated if I focus on algorithm theory and programming language manipulation (for algorithms). It makes things more interesting for me compared to focusing solely on churning through X number of leetcode problems. Once I’ve gotten my working knowledge of the important theories refreshed in my mind solving the actual questions comes quickly go me.
Well said. So revising all possible data structures and algos before jumping in Lc makes sense.
@OP, how is it going? Any suggestions that you can give that helped you?
Work backwards from an interview date that u won't postpone no matter what. That will be a good forcing function. Also, visualizing the stagnation in my career if I don't interview quickly helped remove the inertia.
Sure.