hello guys, I hope you all doing well, So I took a week off and as I wanna join a FANG company that is my ultimate goal . - I have been working for almost 2 years in a local company in the middle east as a c++ developer and I HATE it but i only know c++ , used java and python before though .. in the old days. -I have solved around 30 leetcode problems .. mostly amazon medium and hard interview questions. My question is how can i make the most out of this week ? any suggestion is highly appreciated, Thanks.
You can interview in C++ and learn whatever languages and stack your new team uses when you're ramping up. (At least this it true for Google.)
How long would you say the process of preparing to be google interview ready ? And also number of leetcode problem?
I'm actually not familiar with LC so someone else could answer this better. But I've heard the hard problems aren't asked much. So maybe when you can solve most mediums that are new to you in under an hour, that will be a good signal you're ready.
TL;DR You might not be ready yet. I would do more LC before I start applying. There is no particular number of LC that will prepare for FANG especially G. Amazon - Master top 100 Amazon questions and you will be fine. You might get questions asked directly from LC. Same with Microsoft. Facebook- Same thing here. Not a personal experience but I heard this from many in Blind. Google- G doesn't ask questions from LC. It's rare if you encounter a direct ques from LC. So, you need to master the patterns not the questions. There is no hard number for this. Netflix - I am not sure. Folks who gave interviews at Netflix, reply below. General prep: Doing around 150 easy intially gave me basic application of data structures. Then I went on to do 160 mediums and 40 hard. And the mediums gave me a good grasp of different patterns. I couldn't do most of the hards my self. Atleast I didn't try for more than 30mins on each prob as I had less time. So just saw the solutions and applied them in my way. However, I think even G doesn't ask a lot of hard questions these days. But you might get a hard ques as a follow up or in a bar raiser round. Having 1 bad round doesn't hurt if you have other strong rounds. So I wouldn't focus on hard yet. Start with easy topic wise until u get a grip on that topic. Do this for all major topics. Then move to mediums and then do problems over random topics sorted by company wise may be or frequency. Do these until you feel you are confident in atleast these topics dfs, bfs, recursion, backtracking and trees. I found these as the mostly asked topics. No DP. I never touched it as i hate it. I did some 20ish problems in DP to get some hang on it but mostly I use recursion with memoization as my solution for DP problems but this cant be applied for some problems. Luckily no one asked DP for me. But DO NOT have a missing topic in your armor. You might need it sometimes and that might be your devil on your D Day. So just get some hang on DP but I wouldn't waste much time on this.. Done with basic prep? Only then you can start with your referrals. You can get calls easily from FANG. Honesy, you dont even need referrals for these companies. I was reached out by Amazon,Msft and G recruiters when I turned on job search signal in LinkedIn. However, I didn't get any calls from Salesforce, LinkedIn,Expedia no matter how much I tried reaching out in LinkedIn so you might need a referral for these. Getting an interview call is not the actual problem here but cracking the interviews is the big thing and I wouldn't wanna blow up there and wait for 6 months to 1 year. Good luck and start prepping. I will have a detailed post of my overall experience.
Thanks so I assume you got an offer at a fang and your moving soon?
Yes, I am.
30 medium/hard is enough for amazon. Go and ask for a referral.
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I always prefer to complete the basics of algo. What ever CTCI has it. Once u cover all the major algo it all about joining the dots and more practicing. Apply for the jobs you don't want to join in the mean while
Mind naming chapters ? I got CTCI and EPI
I don't have the 6th edition with me but all the initial chapters before it leads into the problems. Not skipping any fundamentals in that process.