I recently interviewed with 2 companies(startups)
Rejected in both due to DP hard questions.
In first company's phone screen I was asked a DP hard got rejected in phone screen itself.
In 2nd company cleared phone screen rejected in 2nd round, was asked 1 medium and 1 hard questions to solve in one hour. Solved the medium one but couldn't solve the hard one.
Is it due to covid(more supply, less demand) that companies have started asking DP hard questions and have raised their interview bar or I am under prepared?
I have observed that now a days it has been a norm to ask hard/difficult questions to filter out the candidate.
LC stats - 190 (maximum medium questions).
I am demotivated due to these two rejections and seeing the interview bar these days.
Guys please share ur exp on this.
#interview
YOE - 5
TC - 28(20 fix/ 6 stock/ 2 perf bonus)
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It feels like even if I grind LC, Codeforces and competitive programming for let say 2-3 years even that will not be enough to crack let say Google India.
And on the other hand, i have seen so many people who hadn't done any LC,CF in their bachelors and they even start leetcoding after going to US and eventually get FAANG offers.
I have already done LC,CF, competitive programming for 1.5 years in my bachelors(and will keep grinding during 2 years of MS) so i believe i will be in top of the competition in US ( atleast i will be able to get F,G offer easily there)
I personally feel that I'm moderately good that ds and algo. I got some very easy questions from some unicorn companies, while some small companies asked tough questions. Even after clearing the tough questions, negotiations fell apart due to low TC offered.