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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by vincentmarle on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:58PM (#29180674)
As a fellow college dropout who had the same insecurities and actually went back to college in his thirties (part-time) to study exactly this... all that knowledge still doesn't prepare you for time-boxed stressful leet code interviews.

The people you are competing with study leet code for 3 months and get really good at solving coding puzzles within 45 minutes. Study the basic data structures (nothing fancy needed beyond binary trees) and solve leet code an hour a day for 3 months. That's all you need to do.

Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by unanswered on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:01AM (#29189396)
> The people you are competing with study leet code for 3 months

You can keep competing with the B and C players if you want but don't give that advice to others.

Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by vincentmarle on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:47PM (#29192257)
What would you recommend A players should do?
Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by unanswered on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:18PM (#29194937)
A players have a deep understanding of the topics so that very little or no memorization of solutions and techniques is necessary. (Practice, in this case, is a form of memorization.)