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Did 217 Leetcode across 1 year - Am I ready for interviews?
Solutions Architect II at Amazon2 years ago
I want to know if I'm ready to start interviewing. Here's some additional context:
- I'm confident with easy and easy-medium questions, 50-50 with normal-mediums, and I'm having tough time with harder-mediums and hards.
- I can identify and apply most patterns but the topics I struggle with are heaps, bit manipulation (python sucks here), backtracking, and dynamic programming.
- I'm more confident with System Design than LeetCode due to professional experience. I also studied through 4 use-cases in Grokking the System Design for practice.
- I've done 217 Leetcode questions total in the span of 1 year. Of those, 100 new questions were done in the past 6 months. I also re-do questions using spaced repetition in a Notion table with ToDo,
- For recruiter phone-screens I kinda struggle to explain what I do in my role since I do a little bit of everything. I need to work on a concrete explanation.
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(2 comments)- 92 years agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
- You're ready for phone screens. Onsite could be a problem as you will often get Leetcode hards there.
- You can start doing phone screens now, and after you pass, schedule the onsite far out. During that gap, study Leetcode hards.
- It's good to "build the plane as you fly it" for interviews. The problem with interview prep, Leetcode especially, is that there's a "freshness" factor. If you did a bunch of Leetcode problems 1 year+ ago, you won't remember it for interviews now.
- You will never feel 100% prepared for interviews. Just get to a decent level and start doing it, learning along the way. Interview with less lucrative companies at the beginning to get into the groove.
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2 years agoFinancial CompanyGreat question and answer! I'm in the same boat as the OP, so appreciate the feedback :)
