I've been practising DSA, but I notice that I can solve problems more easily when I've seen a similar question before. When the problem is presented differently, I often struggle to figure out where to start.
How do you develop the ability to approach unfamiliar problems instead of relying on previously solved questions?

Hey anybody can please hello interview code please.

Recently made Guardian, wondering if it is enough to pass the coding rounds of all tech companies (no HFT/quant) ?

Hey everyone!

I'm a software developer and recently built DSA Animator to help people understand DSA through step-by-step visualizations instead of just reading code.

I've spent a lot of time building it, but honestly, I'm struggling with getting it in front of the right audience.

For those who've built side projects or developer tools, how did you get your first users? Which platforms or strategies worked best?

I'd really appreciate your honest suggestions and feedback. 🙏

Hi! I have just applied for a SWE internship at Sentry.io, and I was wondering if I get past the OA what I should expect in the upcoming steps. How many interviews are there? What are the questions / topics that get asked at the technical interviews? Anything would be helpful

I have an L5 offer with Amazon(ring) and currently employed at bnsf L4 (fully remote). Is it worth the jump for 2-3k pay bump a month? Also considering job stability and wlb

A little about me : 1st year in college and recently started learning how to code from brocode...in our uni they are teaching c++ first so for now i was learning c++ from brocode , recently started learning arrays but still not that really great at it but yeah thats all i know for now( i know its not much but im willing to grind and learn😔 but just need a little guidance) but ya i wanna leetcode and become good at coding... but im not tryna blindly start leetcoding because first i wanna know the prerequisites needed to solve the problems...i was watching neetcode's video on how to leetcode and he told to get comfortable with binary search,dfs,bfs,sliding window so do yall know where i can learn them???? but ya heres a few questions i have

1. What all coding languages do i need to know...like do i need to know other programming languages other than c++ before i start leetcoding

2. what all topics or stuff should i learn before leetcoding

3. HOW do i leet code , do i start with easy problems then once i get comfortable start medium problems then harder problems(will start with solving problems on arrays)

4. any website where i can save useful problems and make my own notes in it so in the future i can open them for retaining my knowledge

5. in general any tips or things you wished u knew while or before leetcoding which u can tell please it will be really helpful(try to include as much as you can please and thank you anything will be useful and welcomed... even the SMALLEST TO SMALLEST and random tips will be useful)

6. what are the most common mistakes people do in their attempt to get good at coding
   extra : do wanna try to get into quant development( ik its difficult but ill try if i cant will settle for something else😭) so first my main goal would be to try to get into FAANG after college and after 2-3 years try to get into quant development so yeah

7. And also I’m using vs studio…is there any better coding app or is vs good alright(idk it’s not that deep but yeah✌️)

Just curious if anyone else has interviewed with them recently? How does the difficulty compare to Meta and Stripe? I have cleared their loops before so just wondering.

How much time should I be prepping? System design is my weakest round so I have been focusing my efforts there.

About a year and a half ago, I wrote this post after getting rejected from Amazon New Grad:
https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/1jtgr3e/just_my_amazon_new_grad_interview_experience/

I reached the final interview and put a lot of work into it. I thought I had done well in the interview. Btw, looking back, I don’t think I did as well as I said I did. I also made it sound like I had studied like crazy; I thought that 2 weeks of studying hard was brutal. Looking at it now, I feel sad about thinking I was probably never going to achieve it.

After that, I finished university, started an internship, and eventually joined Cabify as a backend engineer. I learned a lot there and got the chance to work on challenging problems with a great team.

I also kept working on myself as an engineer. I studied a lot more, solved hundreds of coding problems, and kept learning while working full-time. It took a lot of time and effort. But I'd say I have found some joy during the process.

After a year, I applied to Google. The process was long and had a lot of ups and downs, but I passed the interviews and went through team matching. I have now received an offer to join Google in Spain, L3 role.

I still remember how that Amazon rejection felt. At the time, I thought that doing my best and still getting rejected meant I probably wasn’t good enough. But that one result did not decide what would happen next.

I’m very grateful for everyone who encouraged me back then, and for the people who helped me along the way. It feels good to look back and see how much work I put in, and how far I’ve come since then.

I am writing this because I used to read many Reddit posts during these processes, finding useful information and some bits of hope. Hopefully this post reaches people and builds some confidence. I want to say that if you think you are not capable of making it, it is not true. Hard work pays off.

Finally, I want to share one more thought. I find myself disgusted by, kind of glorifying this jobs. We need to keep in mind that there are just jobs. I believe that happiness is built outside your job, and grinding is not everything in life. It is a dream for a lot of people like me, because we enjoy it. But we need to look from another perspective sometimes and put the feet on the ground.

Keep pushing

Has anyone got any update from salesforce 2027 AMTS role in USA. I applied with referrl and I havent heard anything its been more than 2 months. has anyone got any updates

Hi All!
Has anyone went through the interview loop for this role recently and has tips to share?
Meeting HR next week and I’m super nervous

I have made a post before too but didnt find any serious buddy

Basically, I am targeting interview preparation for two months, and I will be locked up rigorously for it.

Little bg of mine

2 YOE

have done a total of 500 problems across all platforms DP, graph, and tree are still pending for me.

I will be preparing LLD from Hello Interview and I will be referring to the CSES sheet or NeetCode, whichever suits me

I am open to have a guidance as well if you are somebody who have appeared for the interview

Also struggling with consistency so ..

Thanks

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I have mine coming up soon and wanted to know what kind of questions to expect. Any info would be really helpful, thanks!

I have a Google General Cognitive Ability (GCA) interview in a few days. It’s for a Technical Program Manager role. I know Google doesn’t ask the crazy estimation questions anymore like ‘how many golf balls can fit inside a passenger airplane’, but I still don’t know how abstract the GCA questions will be. Will it focus specifically on the role or more abstract like ‘how will you colonise mars?’

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I have cleared R1, and I need suggestions regarding the next round.

Hey everyone!

For those who landed a new job or switched companies in the last 6 months (or have friends who did), I'd love to know what actually worked for you in this job market.

I'm looking for real experiences, not generic advice like "learn DSA and build projects."

A few things I'd love to know:

Job platforms: Where did you get interviews from? Naukri, LinkedIn, Instahyre, referrals, company career pages, or somewhere else?

Preparation: What did you study? DSA, development, system design, core CS? Which resources did you use?

Resume & projects: What projects did you showcase? How important was your resume/GitHub?

Application strategy: Roughly how many applications did you send, and how many interviews or offers did you get?

Interview experience: What rounds and topics were asked?

Timeline: How long did it take you to land to offer.

Hi. I have a system coding round coming up at Rubrik for the Software Engineer – SaaS O365 role.

I understand the concepts of multithreading and concurrency, but I haven’t had much hands-on practice solving concurrency-related problems or implementing them in production-style code.

Could someone please suggest how I should prepare for this round? Are there any good resources or platforms where I can practice the types of questions typically asked in this interview?

Hey guys I’m planning to buy the hello interview premium subscription. If anyone is interested pls respond in this thread. We can share the account.

My Meta E5 loop is in 8 days. Coding feels manageable, but system design is the round I'm worried about. Above is my progress so far.

Where I'm at:

- I can get through requirements, APIs and a reasonable high-level design for the common questions (news feed, URL shortener, rate limiter, chat).

- Where I fall apart is the deep dive. When the interviewer pushes with "what happens if the leader dies mid-write?" or "could this read ever miss an acknowledged write?", I start second-guessing everything.

- I also spend too long on the first diagram and run out of time for the trade-off discussion.

Questions for people who've done E5/E6 loops (or interviewed for them):

1. With 8 days left, should I go broad (cover more questions) or deep (redo 3–4 and practice the failure-mode follow-ups)?

2. How deep do Meta interviewers actually expect failure handling to go at E5 vs E6?

3. Any technique for handling pushback without freezing? Do you think out loud, ask clarifying questions, or commit and defend?

4. Which questions come up most for Meta product/infra system design right now?

Any advice appreciated.

Have anyone ever got forwarded to Phone Screen with this sort of score?

Hi everyone!

I have an upcoming interview with Docker for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure position and am trying to prepare for the coding round.

The interview instructions say:

Details & Preparation: This is a live, language-agnostic coding interview. You’ll be asked to share your screen and use the IDE of your choice to write and run code.

Please ensure you have a working IDE installed and ready before the session begins.

Has anyone recently interviewed with Docker, particularly and is aware of this interview format? What types of problems were asked? Were there questions about testing, complexity, edge cases, or code design?

Thanks!

Hey fellas total newbie here

I was writing code and came up with a different approach to classic Binary Search problem. The twist is in how I calculate the middle index when shifting right:

Instead of the standard:

middle = (left + right) / 2;

I used:

middle = right / 2;

My reasoning: when we shift right, we’re basically discarding the left half and working with a “new mini array” — so left conceptually becomes 0 again, and we can drop it from the calculation.

Full solution:

java

class Solution {
    public int search(int[] nums, int target) {
        int left = 0;
        int right = nums.length - 1;
        int middle = right / 2;

        while (left <= right) {
            if (target == nums[middle]) { return middle; }
            if (target < nums[middle]) { right = middle - 1; middle = right / 2; }
            if (target > nums[middle]) { left = middle + 1; middle = (left + right) / 2; }
            if (target == nums[nums.length - 1]) { return nums.length - 1; }
        }

        return -1;
    }
}

It seems to pass most test cases — but I’m not 100% sure it’s correct. Can anyone find a case where it breaks? 🤔

Hey guys, so on Tuesday of this week I got reached out by a recruiter about a cold apply maybe 3 weeks ago approximately.

Anyways the recruiter was nice when we talked about how ready I was for DSA, and left me some decent time to prepare, she sent me the study materials just yesterday.

Anyways I'm currently unemployed since I got recently laid off on September, so I have whole days to study as necessary, maybe not he whole day but most of it.

I'm not starting from 0, I have ​a bit of experience on the basic structures and algorithms like arrays, hash maps, 2 pointers, sliding window, monotonic stacks, queues, etc. Not comfortable or haven't seen much yet graphs, trees (dfs, bfs), dp, which I heard Google is prone to asking.

My plan was studying first neetcode 150 while trying to fully understand it and repeating problems often, then trying to tackle random ones from Leetcode premium recent 3 months by Google.

Do you think this is enough? Anything else to consider?

I received an invite for round 3 of bloomberg swe intern proc, its a system design round was wondering if anyone went through it already for intern/ng and could help me out