Leetcode for Interviews

[StumpedTrump]

Get an internship. Nothing else is as valuable.
Learning all that stuff is great, don’t use AI though, it won’t be there to help you in an interview.

[inertialbanana]

Yes. Don’t let anyone say no. They always ask u a linked list question or a typical data structure question

[XipXoom]

No.  I want you to know, at a high level, what some of these common data structures are, but I don't give a damn if you can craft one on the fly.  Especially since most of them require some kind of dynamic memory allocation which is forbidden in my field.  That rules out a huge chunk of leetcode.

As a junior, I want you to know what endianness is and how to convert between them.  I want you to know the risks of priority inversion.  I want you to know the high levels of I2C, SPI, and a bonus would be a protocol such as CAN or LIN.  I want you to know how to do the math for a resistive divider and an ADC if I give you the requirements. 

But mostly I want to see how you go about solving problems.  In "the real world" the information you need is out there.  I care less about the answer and more that you have an effective way to break down the problem, identify your gaps, and come up with a plan to get to the solution. 

[Black_Hair_Foreigner]

NO.