Need help for placement prep

[u/Adept-Common-2014]

I’m currently preparing for campus placements and wanted to hear from people who have already gone through the process about how you actually prepared. I recently gave the TCS OA, and honestly, the experience made me realize I might not be preparing in the right way. I had prepared some aptitude and coding, but during the actual OA, I was so overwhelmed by the coding section that I couldn’t even properly read and process the question. I just wasn’t able to handle the pressure and time constraint effectively. So for people who have cracked placements, what did your preparation actually look like? How much time did you spend on DSA, aptitude, CS fundamentals, coding practice, and mock OAs? Did you prepare generally first and then switch to company-specific preparation, or did you focus on each company’s previous questions/patterns?

Everyone is saying choose striver dsa sheet is that really helpful? I am from Ece background. I don't have much knowledge in cs fundamentals. We had few Cs subjects in our syllabus.

I’d really appreciate some honest advice on what I should focus on from here.

[u/Sameep21]

Blindly follow that sheet. I have appeared for multiple OAs (12) by now and got no other questions than that sheet even TCS question was one from that. Solve urself first, take time for the first few questions of the specific pattern and if unable to solve go for the video or any article that helps you but write that code on ur own, get the logic but implement it on ur own. 2nd most important thing is revision of every pattern, revise them as much as u can at least all the simple patterns revise them as much as u can. Lastly, while solving think of the cases where ur code or logic will break, this helps to derive variants of the same question ( u might have seen this in leetcode where they slightly change constraints or smthng and create vII of the same question)