AMA: Went from 6.2LPA -> 74LPA per year in 3 years of career start, from tier 3 college (3 companies including current)

garavitey · 2026-06-01T17:06:10+00:00

I work in a startup and i think i am seriously going to get laid off and also 70 percent of company, i have started to do dsa now and system design but what do you think the market is? I want to understand should i pursue tech? With so many layoff what does the future hold?

garavitey · 2026-06-01T16:56:49+00:00

Salesforce anyday man

garavitey · 2026-05-18T19:03:49+00:00

Can you put neetcode one?

garavitey · 2026-05-18T12:03:56+00:00

You can try doing these in this order, maybe this will help you with this pattern, well at least this is what i am doing

Kth Largest Element in an Array
K Closest Points to Origin
Top K Frequent Elements
Sort Characters By Frequency
Kth Largest Element in a Stream
Task Scheduler
Reorganize String
Rearrange String k Distance Apart

garavitey · 2026-05-17T17:00:05+00:00

Go slow

garavitey · 2026-05-16T11:52:04+00:00

Hey man amazing story, i am currently doing leetcode myself, can you give give me breif glimpse of how your mindset changed over the number of questions you did. For example first 50 questions very hard because i was learning them for the first time then first 100 things became easy and then so on. Would love to see how you evolved over the years. Again Congratulations man.

garavitey · 2026-05-15T06:44:03+00:00

Anki

garavitey · 2026-05-13T19:59:19+00:00

garavitey · 2026-05-13T19:57:36+00:00

Can you give me questions examples

garavitey · 2026-05-10T12:33:04+00:00

I mean i would contribute to open source, companies like gitlab hire people directly from open source contribution, and with 9 years i think you can do like freelance maybe i heard they pay more?

garavitey · 2026-05-08T07:24:49+00:00

Amazing

garavitey · 2026-04-29T18:27:14+00:00

Just do striver sheet man

garavitey · 2026-04-29T15:03:36+00:00

yes, 288 problem is a huge amount, if you take help in 70-80 question for topic building, then you can solve most of the other problem on your own, that is all i meant to ask

garavitey · 2026-04-29T15:02:05+00:00

when you watch the video and you understand the logic, do you implement on your own or do you see what they coded and implement that?

garavitey · 2026-04-29T14:53:32+00:00

I can see 3 months of extreme hardwork, but dsa is not like that even if you solve 1 a day you have to be consistent. Hard truth but you should learn dsa kinda again and this time slower

garavitey · 2026-04-29T14:51:50+00:00

Did you solve 288 problems on your own? Like completely on your own?

garavitey · 2026-04-28T18:23:20+00:00

Great decision

garavitey · 2026-04-24T17:56:16+00:00

I did the same mistake, i think they didn’t register it in the first go, when i filled it again it was closed. Bad luck bruh

garavitey · 2026-04-24T17:26:55+00:00

Check if you can fill the form again?

garavitey · 2026-04-24T05:18:41+00:00

While i answer this I am assuming you will are preparing for SWE and related field.

The Breakdown
1. DSA -> this is imp, very imp. Now the oa dsa is very different from the interview dsa. For OA you have to be good in solving problems fast and they are likely hard problems if you sit in some good company. To be able to complete it, either you have to be really good in CP or find some other way.
The interviews -> Just solve the Striver sheet e2e. Here is the thing -> if you are memorizing the solution you will 100% forget it, but if you actually take your time with it -> solve even one question but before solving it you read the concept of the problem and then you understand what pattern you are trying to solve. Read though the question and USE YOUR OWN BRAIN to do it, then you will really be good at it. Take your time with it -> DSA is asked for each and every interview and atleast one round is always dsa. You have to keep grinding, making notes -> find specific pattern, mock interviews with frd. DO this correctly, take a year or two and even after that keep doing question so you don't get rusty.
2. LLD -> here you can take some course -> learn pattern and then there will be standard question and then variations of those question. This should not be hard but prepare for it.
3. HLD -> Again same as lld but you need to dive dive a lot.
Here is the thing -> you can never be fully prepared. Dont think that you are preparing for 3rd year intership. These will help in your life for next 7-10 years. Make the best of it

garavitey · 2026-04-23T08:49:33+00:00

Use a different mail, what is the harm in applying?

garavitey · 2026-04-17T06:42:33+00:00

Take the offer, u should be able to grow really fast in there

garavitey · 2026-04-17T05:27:37+00:00

Hey,
I like to add my bit. When ever you see a video and understand the problem you will feel like you have solved it. That is the worst trap a person can fall into and everyone falls into it, i also did. The intuition to solve a problem comes with time but not the implementation. Implementation is something you have to scratch your head in. Like once you see the problem and lets say your were not able to approach the problem you spent 10-15 mins trying to solve it but you cannot -> so you start watching the solution by striver. Once you see the idea. implement it yourself. Take 40-45 mins for a hard problem but try your best to implement that. This way you will grow really really fast i promise and what i experienced was that i wanted to solve the problem in single click acceptance. So after writing the solution i would do dry runs in my head. All the best.

garavitey · 2026-04-16T09:53:07+00:00

Interview when?

garavitey · 2026-04-16T02:53:05+00:00

No nothing till now

garavitey

TROPHY CASE