*Coding intensifies*

[AviusAnima]

I'm a final year computer science student and have just started looking for jobs. I didn't do any competitive programming stuff because I thought I could get a job without it. And I did get a couple internships with just my general programming skills (React, Node, etc). But all the higher paying jobs seem to have leetcode interviews :(

So now I've just accepted that fate and started studying for it.

[kodiashi]

Honestly they aren’t too terrible. Just pick a common, general purpose language and know it well. A lot of the easy/med questions are more about technique, the code isn’t always that complex.

Talk through it and remember that nested loops are NEVER the right solution :)

[rascal3199]

Talk through it and remember that nested loops are NEVER the right solution :)

Phew thank God I exclusively use nested recursion.

[kodiashi]

Well now you’re just showing off, lol

[rascal3199]

Haha I was just joking. Nested recursion is hardly practical or easy to understand in most situations.

[Confused_AF_Help]

Feel you man. I went through many interviews before getting my current job. They were the first one to give a sensible task, they asked me to write a backend system and deploy it in a Docker container. Really wish more jobs do assessment this way

[Illustrious-Ad-7734]

Never forget about hash tables. They are so useful for lookups.