Leet code easy medium
I struggle with easy medium as well, i just started leetcoding and I am overwhelmed. How do i make sure that i am setup for success and not tensed due to the quantity of questions there. I am ready to do the hard work but sometimes i feel maybe i am not good at it. Would like to state that i think i am decent at my work and can accomplish work with good quality.
It requires deliberate practice and revision. Keep revising again and again till you are comfortable.
Emphasis on deliberate.
By deliberate, you mean strengthening pattern recognition and improving weaknesses
I was at the same stage, what helped me was to keep doing more questions and later on able to see the pattern and apply kind of same logic. How many did you solve till now ? Also do high freq wise to get different and important patterns first. If you donât want to do freq wise you can do pattern wise like sliding window, binary search , dp etc.
Thanks for sharing this, I just started this Saturday and wasnt able to any medium so moved to easy but struggled there too đ„ș
Donât worry I even left doing lc after seeing few dp đđ but later on when I was not stressed , I started doing 1-2 per day and built it upwards. Donât worry keep at it , also you will be able to see pattern at 150 questions and later after 300 and best is 500+ where you can even do hard at least brute force for sure.
You need to start with a proper book like Algorithms design manual. Anyway, takes months to ramp up.
Is eBay that easy to get into?
Nope got in before leetcode was such a huge thing, 5 years back maybe. But I wouldnât say the interview was easy back then. I guess i was able to get in with some studies
Sometimes I take a long time to solve an easy Leetcode, often times I struggle with medium ones. I still got offers from msft and google. Just keep trying . Leetcode isnât everything
I would recommend you check out a YouTuber named Edbert. He has good advice on how to approach interview practice. One point he made, that I agree with but was not doing, is that it's better to focus on one set of problems to get better with them. Bad with graphs? Focus on them an don't skip around doing random problems. In the past I would just do problems I thought would be in an interview, but now I'm trying to focus on problem areas specifically (e.g. Dynamic programming)
+1 to Edbertâs channel. His interview playlist is fantastic
Also have a look at this website https://projecteuler.net/archives The problems there should be giving you a basic prep for LC
I started studying leetcode 3 weeks ago and have been pairing it with CTCI. I also felt overwhelmed by how much I had to learn and study in the beginning. Second week was even worse because I couldnât understand a specific concept/problem type and thought I should just give up. Third week now, and things finally clicked. Had 7 medium problems completed in week 1, 25 total medium problems completed in week 2, and on track to do 50 total medium problems this week. Takeaways so far: 1. Make a commitment to do 2-3 problems a day. Being consistent is extremely important, and you will easily hit 100+ problems in 1-2 months if you do a couple a day. Also, some mediums are easier than âeasyâ problems and vice versa. Donât be discouraged! 2. Each week I focus on a different problem type (e.g. arrays/strings, trees, recursion, etc). I think itâs easier to recognize patterns if you do several similar problems in a row. 3. Try to do the problem by hand first on paper! It really helps reinforce concepts, and is much easier to diagram test cases on paper than in an editor. Run through test cases by hand to catch bugs. Once you have a working solution, then plug it in and submit or run test cases. 4. Take breaks. I was sleeping at 3 am each day for the first couple of weeks and my brain felt slow and incoherent. Now I limit my studying to ~2 hours a day, and take at least one whole day off from leetcode each week. You can do other interview prep on the off days like studying system design or practicing behavioral questions. The best part is once youâve done this grind once, subsequent grinds will hopefully be easier!
I havenât figured it out as well. But I believe itâs better to hone your skills for algorithms while solving leetcode questions. Also one of my friend who has had success in getting good Job offers said that itâs important to mark questions which you found tricky to solve and revisit them once every couple of weeks (leetcode letâs you put questions in some sort of list, donât remember what itâs called) Best of luck đ
Thanks, any recommendations where i can revise algo any good resource
CTC is a good place to start. And from your other comments I gather that you just started leetcode. I am at ~400 and still feel insufficient. I would say keep solving 2-3 questions everyday and that should hone your skills enough that u would be prepared for interviews in 2-3 months. Donât be discouraged if u r not able to solve something, understand the thinking process and apply it the next time