Normally solve these in 30 - 60 minutes, but this one in particular (not specifying which one to save a little bit of face π) was being such a PITA with its edge cases, submitted more than 10 incorrect submissions so far and just feel worse and worse about myself each time. And spending my Friday night on this while my friends are out clubbing and having a good time lmaooooo this is so sad π (Alexa play Despacito). Still haven't solved it, now just being stubborn and told myself I won't sleep until I solve it despite already being such a miserable failure at this point. I'm not even interviewing atm so why am I even subjecting myself to this torture? Hopefully some π₯ will help. Anywho ...at what point should one just give up and look up the solution?
I spend 4 hrs on LC Medium sometimes..
Some LC mediums are just as hard as LC hards, no worries bruv.
An advice from ur future self - get your ass out and have a social life
Sounds more difficult than solving an LC hard...
Age and yoe?
99.9999% of software engineers will never find a solution to most of the problems by themselves if they never met a similar problem before (try to come up with the Dijkstra algorithm or a math formula that you never met before), so it makes sense to give up and look into solution early.
That's why I told them to keep trying till they reinvent the wheel. They didn't understand the comment. π Gonna add /s
I used to think any serious software engineer would also have deep mathematics and cs theory skill. But only certain companies value that sort of depth (google and jane street + other fintech companies?)
We like tenacity here at Deliverr, HMU if you decide to start interviewing :)
Most people got through college and into FANG by reading solutions. Anyone who tells you differently is full of shit lol
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Doing that is a huge time saver and it feels awesome. I destroyed my Calc 2 final at a top school. The professor had a golden medals from several IMO. Average: 23/100 Me: 99 Second guy: 63 Third guy: 48 Hundreds of people: π½ Multiple people came up to ask me how many practice problems I solved and thought I was being an asshole for answering 0... π© π₯― I just studied the material and the solved problems from lecture, discussion section, and the textbook and really contemplated and internalized them. The problems on the exam were different of course, but it didnβt matter. I had seen all the connections already.
This is because fb interview questions never go harder than lc medium in my experience, lmao. I wonder how many google engineers would have this problem.
Iβve been told by a FB recruiter that a typical session (phone or onsite) consists of two mediums or one hard. Is this not the case?
I could be wrong. But my general impression is that fb emphasises testing your speed, mental fluency and communication skill rather than pure intellectual depth/difficulty like Google does (which sort of aligns with the pace and style of work at the two companies imo).
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Which club lol? Probably rather be home stimulating brain
U got it bro. Don't give up. Reinvent the wheel if u have to. Edit: /s Since y'all didn't get it.
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