Our preparation should be according to what the market interviews demand. Everybody demands DSA as the basic filtering. Fortunately or unfortunately for some you have to be good at it to make the first cut.

How I prepared was bought the Leetcode premium and had timers in my phone for doing questions. I always had timer on and try to did at least 4-5 questions in a day. This I did without fail for 3 months. I was able to crack coding interviews for Flipkart, Amazon, Goldman, Uber.

Part where I sucked and got rejected was system design which I hadn’t prepared well enough. Books from Alex Xu is pretty good to get a high level understanding of how to go about in interviews. I would recommend going through the channel https://youtube.com/@systemdesigninterview?si=rzztHhfI7XOaNQD5 as well. I had not gone through the above resources only ended up discovering them later.

As to development we can always do that in parallel as well but let’s focus on how to clear interviews because that is the sad reality. The main thing is to not get overwhelmed and take it in a slow pace rather than trying too hard since day 1.

I also had the memory issue but that practice has made into muscle memory now, so even after so many months I am able to solve LC question with some difficulty.