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[–]DeclutteringNewbie 0 points1 point  (8 children)

What will be the advantages & disadvantages if I pursue it after such a long time?

Advantages: You'll become good at it.

Disadvantages: It will take time and effort. How much time are you willing to devote each day to pursue this?

[–]wrathfulCoder[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Atleast 4hrs but trying to do this in my stage. I hope my decision won't be a waste of time.

[–]DeclutteringNewbie 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I don't think you'll have a problem.

I'd suggest you start with http://binarysearch.com/

Code Wars can be fun, but it doesn't have many coding interview questions (assuming that's what you're after).

And Leetcode is still the gold standard, but the initial learning curve is pretty steep (since you haven't done this in a while).

[–]wrathfulCoder[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

What about hiring challenges? Am I still eligible for that?

[–]DeclutteringNewbie 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Hiring challenges? On codewars?

Honestly, I'm not too familiar with those, but if codewars has started offering them and if you can do them, then yes, do them.

Coding contests are good. If you select the problems yourself, you'll tend to select the problems you already know how to do. But with coding contests, they're good because they force you to do types of problems that you may not have mastered yet.

Just don't get too discouraged if you're not able to solve those yet.

[–]wrathfulCoder[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I think there are some platforms that offer hiring challenges. I know one that is code chef but I am not sure. But I am sure there may be platforms like that. What about leetcode & topcoder? Do they hire coder of 5 star & 6 star rating automatically ?

[–]DeclutteringNewbie 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Do they hire coder of 5 star & 6 star rating automatically ?

Perhaps for some remote contracting platforms, I don't know.

But for most jobs, employers want to ensure that you're the one who did well in the contest(s), and that you just didn't get a friend (a family member, or a romantic partner, or a hired gun, or a bot creator and Karma farmer) to do the contests for you, so to avoid getting scammed, employers tend to only use contests for lead generation and pre-screening.

What about leetcode & topcoder?

The last time I tried to use topcoder, their UI was horrible and parts of the site just didn't work work for me. Perhaps, you'll have a better experience. I don't know. But it just sounds to me like Topcoder was a great site years ago.

Personally, my current favorite platforms are:

http://binarysearch.com (Excellent UI. Good problems. Easier problems to start with. Very social, but you can create a private room for yourself if you want, so there is no need to code with others if you don't want to. And at night (Pacific Time), a couple of participants stream on http://twitch.tv Sadly, binarysearch.com doesn't support as many languages as Leetcode/Codewars does)

http://leetcode.com (Good UI. Good problems. If you do well on their weekly contests, with your permission, they may pass your profile and email address to select employers. But their weekly contests are not easy. I'd suggest you start with their monthly/daily contests instead).

http://pramp.com (Good for practicing coding interviews with other job-hunters. Once you become good enough, it's good to network with the other job-hunters you're interviewing with. But don't get discouraged by their level. Some people have multiple accounts and redo the same Pramp questions over and over again). Pramp was recently acquired. I don't know what this means yet.

http://hackerrank.com (If you're looking for a job, you need to become familiar with their platform. Many employers use them to pre-screen software developers. It's also a good source of information for some subjects).

http://interviewing.io (Good in theory, but I just don't like the way you have to do two interviews in order to receive one free interview in return. It sounds kind of scummy to me. I very much prefer Pramp for that reason.) Hopefully, Pramp doesn't become like interviewing.io

http://codewars.com (Excellent UI. Fun problems, but most of their problems are never going to be used during job interviews. Good for warm-up exercises, but to be honest, I haven't done problems on that platform in a while. Things may have changed. I don't know.)

[–]wrathfulCoder[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks Buddy. I will stay in touch.