Seeking some feedback on swe interview prep Yoe - 5 LC count - 80 (40-easy 40-mediums, no hard) Targeting to reach at least 150 before hitting faang and other usual targets. I can solve easy problems optimally in 20 mins. Can solve very few mediums optimally in 30-35 mis. Haven't even looked into hard, so don't know where I stand there yet. I am focusing on quality over quantity. Spend at least a couple hours on each difficult problem before moving on to next. This includes figuring out solving by myself, then looking at discussion boards and solution section explanations and then coding up the solution with focus on time/space complexity. Will start with grokking system design this weekend. Thinking of giving phone interviews at smaller lesser known companies, that aren't my targets to get prepared and use the feedback to update my leetcode strategy. Will be doing that in couple of weeks time from now. End goal is to hit up Google, FB, LinkedIn, Apple, Amazon, Uber, Square, Airbnb, Pinterest by April/May. Got recruiter inmails for all above. Have asked them to wait for a couple months. They are ok with it. How realistic is the target to crack one of these by May? Any constructive feedback to keep in mind for prep would be appreciated.
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Nice, I think you can definitely crack one by May, lots of time. I would start trying to recognize patterns in the questions, for example a lot of backtracking qs have a similar goal and solution, once you begin to see that things become easier.
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, DP/backtracking problems are my weak point so far. Focusing on them. Can you suggest any videos or tutorials to better understand these patterns?
https://cheatsheet.dennyzhang.com/cheatsheet-leetcode-a4 and https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/458695/dynamic-programming-patterns may help