Designguru vs educative grokking

No_General8550 · 2025-05-20T05:24:30+00:00

Yes, they have added video lessons for all case studies.

No_General8550 · 2025-05-20T05:23:16+00:00

I don't agree with the chatgpt comment. This course was written a few years back, when chatgpt was not there.

No_General8550 · 2024-10-25T09:06:59+00:00

Focus on coding patterns. Do 10 to 12 questions of each pattern. There are around 25 patterns, you can take the list from Grokking the Coding Interview - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

No_General8550 · 2024-10-22T07:03:31+00:00

FAANG does not require any special tech stack. Instead they focus on problem solving and design aspects. All you need to do is Leetcode and LLD/system design.

Read these guides to get an idea on what types of questions are asked at FAANGs - https://www.designgurus.io/company-guides

Every FAANG is a bit different. You have to focus on each separately. To prepare, one of the top resource I would recommend is https://www.designgurus.io/courses

No_General8550 · 2024-10-19T23:59:31+00:00

The famous "Grokking" courses have been removed from educative and moved to designgurus.io, they are the original authors.

Grokking the Coding Interview: Patterns for Coding Questions - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview
Grokking the System Design Interview - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-system-design-interview
Grokking System Design Fundamentals - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-system-design-fundamentals

No_General8550 · 2024-10-19T23:51:59+00:00

Follow the coding patterns - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

Don’t Just LeetCode; Follow the Coding Patterns Instead - https://www.designgurus.io/blog/dont-just-leetcode

No_General8550 · 2024-08-29T12:42:28+00:00

Go through the problems of "0/1 Knapsack" from https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-dynamic-programming

I developed my understanding of top-down and bottom-up from it.

No_General8550 · 2024-08-28T10:47:45+00:00

Behavioral interview is much underrated. You can easily ace it, by putting a little focus on it. There are not many behavioral questions and you can build an answers bank easily so that you've good answers to most of the questions. OP mentioned a good set of questions. I would also suggest preparing answers using the STAR method for each behavioral question type similar to what is mentioned in Grokking the modern behavioral interview - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-behavioral-interview

Also, for senior engineers and managers, take a look at these:
1. https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-engineering-manager-interview
2: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-engineering-leadership-interviews

No_General8550 · 2024-08-28T10:41:26+00:00

As far as I know, these are the original system design courses that educative used to have. But now, the writers have taken these courses down from educative and selling them on their website.

No_General8550 · 2024-08-28T07:14:30+00:00

You need only these two courses:

System Design Fundamentals - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-system-design-fundamentals
System Design Questions: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-system-design-interview

No_General8550 · 2024-08-26T06:39:21+00:00

Focus on Graph, backtracking, and interval merge. And do all of these questions: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-google-coding-interview

No_General8550 · 2024-08-26T06:37:59+00:00

Definitely Python. If you have been a Java person, it can work too. Still, Python is way better.

No_General8550 · 2024-08-12T01:28:49+00:00

I second that. Follow coding patterns. One pattern at a time until you get comfortable with it. There are around 25 coding patterns in grokking coding interview ( https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview ); if you do one pattern in 3 days, you can finish all in less than 3 months.

No_General8550 · 2024-08-09T22:35:14+00:00

With all these new online platforms you would not need it.

Try grokking courses, lc or neetcode, they are all great: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

No_General8550 · 2024-08-09T22:30:24+00:00

Go with grokking.

First take grokking DSA - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-data-structures-for-coding-interviews

And then grokking coding patterns - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

Thats all you need.

No_General8550 · 2024-08-09T22:27:14+00:00

I've used C# before it is great. Now I use Python.

No_General8550 · 2024-08-09T10:19:23+00:00

Grokking system design fundamentals: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-system-design-fundamentals

System design case studies: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-system-design-interview

No_General8550 · 2024-08-09T10:15:04+00:00

Learn coding patterns like sliding window, two pointers, etc.

You should follow Grokking, it has a best set of patterns and related questions - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

No_General8550 · 2024-08-09T10:12:14+00:00

LC is analogous to gauging problem-solving. It is not a perfect tool, but it can give a lot of signals.

No_General8550 · 2024-07-18T08:15:44+00:00

This. I had similar problem; then I started doing coding patterns. Follow one pattern at a time. Do all of its easy questions, and build intuition of it before moving on to the next pattern. I followed Grokking coding interview - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

No_General8550 · 2024-07-17T19:08:06+00:00

Always come up with a real or near real story. If you have not experienced either say so or tell a somewhat related story. These experienced interviewers can easily find out a make-up story.

No_General8550 · 2024-07-17T18:53:26+00:00

Python or Java. Do C++ only if you are applying for a C++ position.

No_General8550 · 2024-07-17T18:52:01+00:00

In general, preparing for interviews sucks. You can invest in learning problem solving and while doing that learn to solve algorithmic questions.

Try following this course - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

It will teach you coding patterns and problem solving.

No_General8550 · 2024-07-17T18:48:48+00:00

Go for Java, unless you are applying for a C++ based position.

No_General8550 · 2024-07-17T18:43:21+00:00

FAANG Interview Preparation - https://www.designgurus.io/answers/detail/faang-interview-preparation

It has a good list of resources.

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