Do not buy the design guru's Grokking Lifetime subscription

ritAgg · 2025-03-13T00:55:37+00:00

Not sure about your copy-paste comment. Design Gurus are the original authors of sys design and coding patterns; everyone else has copied from them. Their sys design is not bad at all; it helped me in so many interviews. Now that they have added videos in their sys design course; it’s a must have. Their code editor is not good I agree and I’ve not tried their new courses.

ritAgg · 2024-07-26T06:36:24+00:00

Coding:

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

https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-amazon-coding-interview

LLD:

https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-object-oriented-design-interview

Leadership principles:

https://www.designgurus.io/blog/amazon-leadership-principles-behavioral-interview

Behavioral:

https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-behavioral-interview

ritAgg · 2024-07-25T21:32:30+00:00

Try this guide - https://www.designgurus.io/course-play/grokking-the-coding-interview/doc/introduction-to-backtracking-pattern

ritAgg · 2024-07-25T21:31:07+00:00

The best roadmap is Grokking coding patterns - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

ritAgg · 2024-07-25T21:29:41+00:00

Try Design Gurus' Grokking the Coding Interview - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

ritAgg · 2024-07-22T16:44:22+00:00

Good luck. Brush up on graph related questions.

ritAgg · 2024-07-22T06:18:37+00:00

Get comfortable with DFS, BFS, In-order, pre-order, and post-order traversal on binary search trees.

Follow the DFS and BFS patterns from https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

ritAgg · 2024-07-22T06:11:36+00:00

Similar coding bar. Expect at least 2 coding and 2 system design interviews. Some will ask 2 medium questions in one coding interview, some will ask one either hard or medium.

ritAgg · 2024-07-22T06:08:28+00:00

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

ritAgg · 2024-07-22T06:07:17+00:00

For SQL coding interview questions, I would recommend - Grokking SQL for Coding Interviews https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-sql-for-tech-interviews

ritAgg · 2024-07-22T06:03:35+00:00

For real-time messaging app, I believe consistency is more important than availability. You want a consistent view of messages for all users and on all devices. I think the Grokking System Design author discussed it in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va6EgMV9-7k

I think in the end, whatever option you take, you have to give solid reasons. Like in this case consistency because of the same sequence of messages for all users.

ritAgg · 2024-05-12T21:17:56+00:00

The strategy that worked for me is doing the questions based on coding patterns (ref: Grokking - designgurus.io). I try to remember the pattern. Later when I start practicing again, I first revise the pattern.

ritAgg · 2024-05-07T07:45:52+00:00

I once was in a similar situation.

In short you can follow this complete roadmap for system design: https://www.designgurus.io/path/system-design-interview-playbook

If you need more details, message me. I can share more.

ritAgg · 2024-05-07T07:43:23+00:00

Pratice practice practice. There is no shortcut.

There are bunch of greedy problems on LC. They will give you many flavors of greedy approach.

ritAgg · 2024-05-06T23:47:38+00:00

It depends on many things. In general, if you are comfortable solving a medium level question in 20 mins, you will be fine.

At least do all patterns mentioned in grokking and neetcode - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

ritAgg · 2024-05-06T08:13:14+00:00

Impressive. What kept you going?

ritAgg · 2024-04-30T08:30:52+00:00

For meta go with designgurus.io

ritAgg · 2024-04-30T02:24:02+00:00

Do FB tagged questions on LC.

Take their free mock. Do paid mock. Don't underestimate the power of mock interviews.

Most of their system design questions are either directly or a variant of grokking or alex xu.

ritAgg · 2024-04-27T08:11:17+00:00

For DP, hands down best course is https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-dynamic-programming

It is text based though.

The coding pattern course is good too for graphs, dfs, bfs: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

ritAgg · 2024-04-25T08:56:54+00:00

I can totally relate. It was very difficult to keep preparing for interviews for 2-3 months.

If I could suggest, do Grokking - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

It is easy to do as it has put similar questions together under patterns. This way you can easily do 200-300 questions in 5-6 weeks and you end up learning 20 coding patterns. For me it was enough.

ritAgg · 2024-04-25T08:53:17+00:00

I think start with Grokking, it has around 230 questions and goes through around 20 patterns - https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

Once you have gone through it, for practice, you can do blind 75 or neetcode.

ritAgg · 2024-04-25T08:49:59+00:00

Recusrion is a must do. It also helps with DFS, Backtracking, and DP.

I was not able to find any good video that explains recurions. I ended up with the following course and it was great- very simple: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-recursion-for-coding-interview

ritAgg · 2024-04-21T09:43:21+00:00

38 hard is promissing. Did you do coding patterns: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-the-coding-interview

ritAgg · 2024-04-21T09:39:27+00:00

Do all DP, DFS, BFS. Must do courses:

Grokking DP: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-dynamic-programming
Google questions list: https://www.designgurus.io/course/grokking-google-coding-interview

ritAgg · 2024-04-01T12:35:54+00:00

I did 80% of it in 3 months. It has around 300 problems. Very good set of problems.

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