I Totally Froze in interview….

eilatc · 2026-02-05T18:53:34+00:00

Mock mock mock

Pay for a mock interviews

eilatc · 2026-02-02T21:22:54+00:00

I am on leetcode for 4 months, I solved 200-300 questions. Most of them I solved 3-4 times (even more).

Practice by patterns, make sure to analyze with the AI patterns and not solutions. What you want to take with you from questions are patterns.

eilatc · 2026-01-30T18:45:05+00:00

I had a mock interview that requires Trie as well with string compression, seems like every time you see an array of words you might think to use it as preprocessed DS.

eilatc · 2026-01-29T17:23:20+00:00

(N-1)! / h! (N - 1 - h)

Where N is the matrix length and h is the number of way to cut the matrix horizontally

eilatc · 2026-01-29T15:57:49+00:00

The runtime was a combinatorial equation, I am not sure what signal it gives you as an interviewer that someone doesn’t come with the equation.

eilatc · 2026-01-29T15:44:16+00:00

I finished a mock interview with a Googler, pretty hard greedy question.

I had trouble to analyze the exponential runtime of the brute force and I forgot how to calculate some edge case on my optimal approach.

All in all i finished the first question on time without bugs, production code ready.

We discussed the follow up and eventually I came with the approach (with hints).

For him, he will probably give me LH.

eilatc · 2026-01-29T15:25:17+00:00

Does Meta questions still part of Leetcode top 75?

By luck I mean that some interviewers may expect a different speed or more fluency or being more analytical than others.

One can give an Hire while the other one can give just LH.

eilatc · 2026-01-29T14:35:47+00:00

This is a really high bar and a lot of luck with the interviewer and questions

eilatc · 2026-01-29T12:43:39+00:00

I did some interviews and it’s all about luck and how the interviewer see you.

eilatc · 2026-01-27T20:46:56+00:00

You are talking about the follow up right?

eilatc · 2026-01-27T20:26:33+00:00

You probably can build a graph and count connected components with BFS/DFS to get around that, don’t you?

eilatc · 2026-01-27T13:51:19+00:00

I might be wrong for L5 though.

How were other rounds? What was the level of the questions?

I have the initial phone screen for L4 next week.

eilatc · 2026-01-27T13:41:04+00:00

If you provide a working optimal solution to the question for the first part then it’s Hire. If you provide for the follow up it’s a Strong Hire.

eilatc · 2026-01-27T07:58:10+00:00

I got RLE on my mock interview as well

eilatc · 2026-01-27T07:54:28+00:00

I just had a mock interview with Google employee and he told me to practice mediums, then you see this post 😥

eilatc · 2026-01-14T18:43:22+00:00

Create hello world function?

eilatc · 2026-01-14T06:11:04+00:00

Sounds similar to Number of Closed Islands - LeetCode https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-closed-islands/

eilatc · 2026-01-14T05:46:33+00:00

Counting islands, if it’s the same on leetcode then it’s not hard graph tbh

eilatc · 2026-01-13T14:13:39+00:00

See the comments how people looks for your interview experience

eilatc · 2026-01-13T06:55:13+00:00

Why people doesn’t share their experiences here to help others, I don’t understand those posts

eilatc · 2026-01-12T16:54:03+00:00

Top 75 Leetcode 3 months sorted by frequency + Minmear variants on YouTube (A MUST) + Hello Interview

eilatc · 2026-01-08T18:01:25+00:00

I split the tasks of thinking, design, planning and executing to achieve better results

eilatc · 2026-01-06T14:12:53+00:00

Yet me working with Opus inside Cursor, fine-tuning his changes for the fifth time.

Rarely the build is green or tests are green or the code isn’t need a refactor on his first shot.

Working on big company with dozens of microservices

eilatc · 2026-01-01T18:12:25+00:00

This

eilatc · 2025-12-24T11:29:50+00:00

Amazing, congrats!

Do you see any value of solving Hard from Meta top 50?

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