Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv...
by gofreddygo on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:55PM
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Thanks that's solid advice.
I imagine that strategy ( focus on weaker areas and be consistent) to work more reliably than making it a numbers game.
Appreciate your comments and hope you can see that training website through to a real product. Would benefit a lot of people like me.
I think if you hit a balance of problems that touch on arrays, strings, linked lists, trees, graphs, stacks, queues, heaps, and also some dynamic programming you'll be good to go. I found that companies really love to ask graph problems in disguise, and once you know how to recognize them and the basic DFS/BFS implementations you're golden. And if you get good at graph problems, trees and linked lists are simple, so I think it's a great area to put extra focus.
I found the dynamic programming problems particularly hard for my brain to grasp, and I had to spend a lot of time repeating the basic problems and slowly building up my skillset. A ton of practice, and I never even got asked a single DP question in all the interviews!