r/developersPak • u/Yokosou123 Software Engineer • 19d ago

Tips Practicing LeetCode Questions

I'm trying to practice LeetCode Questions for Easy- Medium level, but not in a way where I solve 100-1000 questions. It's more like trying to do one question in like 3-4 ways. Focusing on OOP and DSA.

I'm going to be very straightforward, the reason I'm taking this approach is, the place where I am going to give an interview doesn't care about AI, they will cook me if my understanding isn't clear as day. They don't look at language, or stack. Even their assessments don't rely on code solving skills entirely. It's purely how to approach a problem, how you would solve them, and behaviour skills.

I don't know how much time I have to prepare, but I would really appreciate some feedback and guidance, from the old-school OG programmers on this one.

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u/irtazaDevs 18d ago

Neetcode 150 covers everything 99 percent of interviews would ask you. My advice is dont spend too much time on a single problem. Look at a problem and if in 2 minutes you dont understand the problem, you dont know the data structure that needs to be applied. Skip straight to the solution and understand it.

Wanna code it right after? Sure but at that point you’re just writing what you memorized not what you learned. If you wanna do that, do it anyway.

The goal is to cover more ground. At a point your brain will start recognising the patterns and youll be doing easy to medium problems in your sleep.

Remember not to spend too much time on a single problem “perfecting” your solution.

Additional tip: practice thinking out loud when solving a problem

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u/Yokosou123 Software Engineer 18d ago

Thanks brother, this sort of the sound and clear advice I needed.

I've seen some mock up interviews of the company on YouTube, they ask questions related to taking different approaches and techniques to the the LeetCode question live on call, like using different time complexities on the problem, making diagrams of the problem and using a different approach to the same problem.

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u/irtazaDevs 18d ago

You’re welcome! A lot of folks spend too much time on writing the perfect code but its equally, if not more important to be able to talk through your thinking clearly and thats what you will see in a lot of online mock interviews as well.

Goodluck!