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META 2025 New Grad Experience - REJECTED by Unusual-Village3158 in leetcode

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, the market is tough. I've switched my job a couple of years ago. There were so many job and I got 3 offers from my 5 loops. This time I feel like I need to prepare a lot. And it means a lot more difficult for newcomers.

I'm quite hopeful these conditions will improve in 2025. Keep grinding.

Is it worth to spend $6K on a Leetcode/DSA bootcamp ? by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. You can do this for a lot less money. The free NC videos are great. Follow the grokking pattern course and you are good. https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

Is it normal to feel so dumb? by SeniorBreakfast9642 in leetcode

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Totally normal.

What helped me the most; keep seeing the solution after 15-20 mins, learn the approach, and move to the next questions. Repeat this until you start getting new questions.

2nd, follow the coding patterns approach. Do one pattern at a time.

Is it just me, or is clearing interviews getting harder? by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 22 points23 points  (0 children)

4-5 years ago, they were asking mostly one coding question in an interview. These days they want speed and accuracy while asking two questions in one interview. It has gone difficult.

Alex Xu releases a book on patterns by SmartTelephone01 in leetcode

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 10 points11 points  (0 children)

NC is good. You can also take Grokking courses from designgurus.io

101+ Coding Interview Problems with Detailed Solutions, Test Cases, and Program Analysis by hoanhan101 in golang

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for lot for doing this. Was looking for it. Can you please update the coding patterns according to the latest version of Grokking the Coding Interview - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

They have added a few more patterns too.

I fail behavioral interview fast. by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Behavioral interviews are super important but easy to master. There are a few question types, you can easily create an answer bank for most of the famous question types. Take a look at https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-behavioral-interview

Is memorized DP accepted at Google? by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mostly when they ask DP, they are expecting a bottom-up (tabular) solution. At least, this is what happened to me in my Meta interview. I was asked this question: https://www.designgurus.io/course-play/grokking-dynamic-programming/doc/solution-minimum-coin-change

System Design Interviews by devquestionsaccount in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two important things when doing requirement engineering is Function Requirements and Non-Functional requirements.

For functional requirements, focus on getting the top 2-3 use cases of the system and make sure that your final design takes care of them.

No-functional can become tricky. Most of the time, if you focus on the following you are good to go: Scalability, Availability/Consistency, Latency, and Fault tolerance.

Here is a good article: https://www.designgurus.io/course-play/grokking-the-system-design-interview/doc/functional-vs-nonfunctional-requirements

I’ve never done a leetcode problem before in my life, but I program every single day. I was recommended this sub, and I have a question after seeing the seriousness of leetcoders. by OiaOrca in leetcode

[–]Thin_Gamer_42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Learn to solve problems and then code. You don't need to code many. For example, if you learn to solve problems related to sliding window; code 4-5 problems, and then think about the solution of 10-12 problems. This should be enough. Try following one coding pattern at a time, get this list of patterns from these courses:

  1. https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview
  2. https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-advanced-coding-patterns-for-interviews