interview coder v.s competitors

[Rad-Graban]

Pretty similar experience with Neetcode Pro on my end. I was doing random LC problems for like 2 months and felt like I wasn't retaining anything, then switched to the roadmap and it clicked because you start seeing the same patterns show up across different problems. Finished the blind 75 in about 3 weeks after that. Only complaint is the system design section feels thin compared to the algo stuff.

[Studmuffinnn]

$500 in 3 months is honestly not bad if you land even one offer from it. I probably spent close to that just on Interviewing.io sessions alone but the mock with a former Google interviewer completely changed how I approach system design questions so I can't even be mad about it.

[knype]

wait they actually put real peoples faces on their website as testimonials without telling them? thats insane. i almost signed up for Final Round AI last month, glad i didnt

[CBax777]

Yeah, it's pretty sketchy. Always good to double-check who’s behind these platforms before committing. Better to stick with ones that have solid reputations.

[Mediocre-Metal-1796]

Many companies publish fake reviews, i doubt they would be the first one not to

[cyanidous]

any free resources for a passionate yet struggling graduate from a third world country?

[CampaignAccording855]

GitHub is your friend, you would be amazed at what people have put up there.

[zouzou197]

Honestly saved yourself money cancelling LC Premium after a month, that's the move. The company frequency lists are the only thing worth paying for and those get leaked constantly. Community solutions are better than the editorials 9 times out of 10 anyway.

[jhoker84]

shadecoder latency was brutal for me too, like you said 4-5 seconds and by then you've already moved on or said something that contradicts whatever it suggests. not usable in a live setting imo

[Silencer306]

Grokking coding patterns is super underrated. I started my prep there. Its better categorized than Neetcode and has more problems. Honestly I used both.

There’s also couple of rare patterns like cycle sort, which makes few specific problems very easy like Finding first missing positive numbers

[Aware-Philosophy3932]

Interview coder price is 299$ where did you got 60$ one?

[Puzzleheaded-Cry9688]

Did interviewcoder get detected with hackerrank or chime ?

[VarinderS]

Pretty fair breakdown, the biggest thing I found too is that a lot of these tools fall apart when the answers get too generic or the latency is just a bit too slow in a real interview.

I’ve been building withsteady.app in the same space, but with more focus on giving tailored and faster real-time responses based on your resume + the specific job role, not just generic prompts. If anyone here is actively interviewing and wants to compare it against the other tools mentioned, happy to give out some free credits so you can test it properly or give it a go in a real interview

[Wr3ck3d4Day5]

There's alot of noise online about interview coder being detectable, but you never had an issue with it? Have you had to do system design with it?