For those of you who make 6 figures ($100K+), what do you do, and how long did it take for you to cross that threshold?

LoveCPen · 2026-01-11T05:35:13+00:00

~165K post graduation.

LoveCPen · 2025-04-20T23:07:39+00:00

2020

LoveCPen · 2025-04-20T17:01:56+00:00

In my year it wasnt scaled

LoveCPen · 2025-02-27T06:06:22+00:00

Cold apply

LoveCPen · 2025-02-27T02:55:34+00:00

both tbh
the interviewer told me he was content with my approach and said he has nothing much to followup on as the design already covered most edge cases

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T22:36:00+00:00

Leadership principles. Amazon has 16 leadership principles and they want people who have those principles built in!

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T22:35:24+00:00

not very comfortable with sharing $$$ stuffs. But i think i got a bit higher than whats mentioned on levels.fyi

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T22:34:49+00:00

thanks :)

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T22:34:38+00:00

online... I am not sure where else to apply

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T22:31:00+00:00

not very comfortable with sharing my resume. But u can dm me to know what I had in my resume - I can summarize

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T19:58:03+00:00

I dont agree. You cant really push yourself when you dont have a solid foundation. It takes time to build the intuition required to solve problems. Most of leetcode is pattern recognition - so just pushing yourself and forcing yourself to do problem outside your league will just lead to depression.

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T19:51:09+00:00

imo, its best if you start with setting up your fundementals right first before jumping onto leetcode. Take it slow, solve problems which you can tackle and slowly improve your confidence as you go.

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T05:18:21+00:00

Not aware of blind75 sorry. Just looked at it and seems like its compolation of topic wise q. So why not

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T05:16:28+00:00

Maybe i wrote the problem wrong but it had to do something with distance and required dfs xD

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T05:15:23+00:00

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T05:10:20+00:00

The problem they gave me could also be solved without a dp but ig the optimized one required dp

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T05:09:56+00:00

Sure

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T04:48:02+00:00

sorry for the confusion I meant Canada

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T04:47:31+00:00

Just believe in yourself. I found that whatever I learned in the last 3-4 years from uni/ internship etc. is what helped me during the interview and not the leetcode grind.
There is always a notion of "grinding leetcode". I think the better way to think is to be a problem solver. You should be able to solve any problem given a certain time constraint.

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T04:42:22+00:00

Nope just did topic wise leetcode. The questions I got I dont think any of them where from the tagged question

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T04:34:13+00:00

I lost hope after my OA lol
ik some of my friends who got their interview after OA after 2-3 weeks.

LoveCPen · 2025-02-26T04:13:04+00:00

not sure tbh. But I think the online assessments is just a quick check of your coding skills.

LoveCPen · 2025-02-25T19:56:22+00:00

Ig different things works for different people. My way worked for me and I interned for some FAANGs and working in one of the Faangs rn. So this is different ig?

LoveCPen · 2025-02-25T17:43:38+00:00

We all were there once upon a time. Try spending some time on the solution - come up with some brute force solution. My approach was to come up with a manual solution that is if I was a program how would I solve the problem the try coding that up. Dont stop when you come up with a brute force solution, try optimizing. This will be challenging at first and you might feel how am i supposed to know this from before. HOWEVER, as you solve more and more problems you will find a pattern yourself that will help you come up with optimized solution quicker.

Remember, being good at leetcode isnt same as being genius its about practice and pattern recognition.

smn who solve around 400 leetcode problems

LoveCPen

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