tech-interview-handbook VS leetcode-patterns

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In the past I’ve relied heavily on https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/ for this step. They have great insights on technical and behavioral questions that can come up in interviews. Improving your understanding of leetcode or hackerrank problems will also be crucial. Be sure not to neglect the basic, ‘why do you wanna work here? what’s your biggest weakness?’ answers. Really knocking these out of the park can make people really remember you.

Technical Interview JS This is self-explanatory and helps a lot of developers to crack interviews in JS as frontend/backend developer positions.

We are currently following the tech interview handbook , currently on arrays and practicing sliding window technique.

Today, after updating my personal website, I shifted focus to a crucial aspect of tech interviews: data structures and algorithms. Starting with arrays, I've committed to tackling one topic per day, solving 3ish related LeetCode problems to reinforce my understanding. 📚 (This website is super useful - sorting leetcodes by patterns)

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Quality over quantity! I solved hundreds of them while preparing for big tech interviews and I can say with confidence after certain number of questions we have diminishing returns. A good base of questions with patterns clearly explained is all you really need. As of now there are many lists online Blind 75 (https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-of-Top-75-LeetCode-Questions-to-Save-Your-Time-OaM1orEU), Prashad's leetcode patterns (https://seanprashad.com/leetcode-patterns/), curated list of problems from Elements of Programming.

Grinding leetcode is inefficient. What you should be doing is familiarizing yourself with the common patterns you might expect to see in an interview. Look at the blind 75 and https://seanprashad.com/leetcode-patterns/.

Initially, you don’t need to solve any of the problems from scratch. Look up the problem on YouTube and someone will walk you through it. This will build your intuition of when to reach for a heap or for a DP array or when to do BFS, etc. If you don’t know these, then watch another video explaining the concepts. These videos are often 10-15 minutes a day so with a 30 minute time commitment you potentially can get through 3 a day, getting you through the complete blind 75 (more than enough) in less than a month or 1 of each of SP’s 22 patterns in a couple of weeks.

The great thing is you don’t need dedicated time for this approach, you can often start a video while tackling laundry or doing some dishes.

Then, start putting these into practice but spend no more than 10-15 minutes on the problem. If you can’t solve it, go watch the video again. There are so many times where you can have the right approach but make a stupid mistake that will cause you to flounder and you can pick up a better way of doing it. Eventually you will be solving these in 10-15 minutes and the time commitment will have remained at a minimum.

After this, find a new job that is only 40 hours a week and voila you’ve just opened up 10-20 hours for personal projects.

I used this list of patterns for my preparation, but you can use another; it's just an example of what it usually looks like. 😊

Sean Prashad has a good list that maps the type of problem to a particular pattern.

Sean Prashad: 212+54 problems

LC refers to Leetcode problems (LC = LeetCode). While the Leetcode website itself is not the only place to practice, "Leetcode problems" refers to the general concept of programming interview problems involving data structures and algorithms.

I am also new at leetcode. But from the advices I gathered and from my own experience, I will suggest to first learn all data structures. Once you understand, then start with the easy ones and gradually learn the patterns. Sean Prashad as a good list of the pattern you can find via this link: https://seanprashad.com/leetcode-patterns/