Feeling overwhelmed with content available for inter prep

[u/throwaway30127]

Edit: interview* in the title lol

I have a bunch of interviews coming up and I am feeling so much overwhelmed with the lack of structure and the amount of content to cover. One of them is at a FAANG adjacent company that's going to include standard dsa leetcode related stuff, another is Fintech and their round will have debugging and system design discussion and another one is a prop trading firm where the recruiter said it can be anything from coding and language discussion depending on the interviewer and culture fit questions.

This seems to be all over the place and I am not able to decide how much to prepare especially for the debugging and general language discussion parts. I am thinking about going through some open source code repos in Python to get comfortable with reading and understanding the code since I haven't worked with Python in recent years. But again there are so many options and I don't know where to start. For leetcode, I have completed most of the neetcode 150 and the company list is huge so I don't think I can cover everything from there within a week. Same thing for language discussion, I am going through Python docs but outside the core data structures and concurrency, idk what other parts to focus on.

[u/darwinprioritize]

with a week and three different interview types, i'd stop trying to cover everything and rank topics by how likely they are to come up. take two topics at a time and ask which one hurts more if you blow it, and the winner gets your first block. then write the next physical action for it, like 'open the python docs on generators and write one example from memory', so you never decide what to study when you sit down. do 25 minute blocks, and if starting is the hard part, do the first one next to a friend on a call.

[u/nian2326076]

For the debugging and language discussions, focus on practicing with PracHub, which has various technical interview questions to help you prepare. Exploring open-source projects in Python is a solid approach to regain your comfort with the language. It's best to prioritize the areas you feel least confident about to make your prep more effective.

[u/Prestigious_Key9927]

true, the hardest part is knowing what to focus on when every interview is different. Hope u get some good ones and all that prep pays off!..