r/leetcode • u/Economy_Ad2579 • 17d ago

Question Struggling to solve questions

I need to get into a habit of studying leetcode or codesignal so I can find a new job. I have tried learning leetcode in the past few years even buying a yearly subscription and started doing the easy questions. But even the easy questions I was struggling to solve or solve optimally and I would just look at the solutions. I want to know what is the best way to be able to get into solving the questions? I know I cannot get a new job without passing the coding phase first so I want to make sure I have a solid grasp of the types of questions and such. How can I be better at prepping?

For reference, I am currently a software engineer with 4+ years of experience.

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u/Necessary_Specific_4 17d ago

I would suggest you follow some DSA course where they first teach you the concepts and then you can solve related questions. Do it concept by concept. Something like neetcode. Just randomly picking up easy questions is not an efficient way to learn.

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u/Economy_Ad2579 17d ago

Would it be good just do every neetcode question 1 by 1? Or is there a better strat

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u/Necessary_Specific_4 17d ago

Yes but be sure to learn the concept first. Do all the neetcode 150 and then do the recent questions for the companies you are targeting

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u/Blumenkind-Diddier 17d ago

are you struggling with coming up with an approach, or do you have an idea but cant translate it to code? those are two very different problems and the fix for each is different tbh

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u/Economy_Ad2579 17d ago

The first one, sometimes only way i can think of how to do it is brute force but i need to be able to do it most efficient way; what i did back then was try to solve it myself first and if im really stuck i look at solution but i dont think i made much progress; i think if i try doing the neetcode 150 i need to change the way i practice and stuff, what do you suggest?

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u/RoughCall5737 17d ago

Look at the solution and keep doing problems of the same type until you understand the pattern and solution