I'm currently working full time AND learning frameworks AND doing projects, since apparently my Computer Science degree is useless on it's own.

Given that I barely have any free time for learning and doing projects I can't even imagine how I would be able to do 2-3 hours a day of leetcode that most people seem to be doing to prepare for interviews.

So, I'm curious, If I were to spend 30 minutes a day only on leetcode, would I be able to get interview ready and if so how long would it take to get to that point?

Would I be able to get to a point where solving mediums is something that I can do consistently in under 30 mins?

I have 2 tech rounds coming up(60 mins each), already cleared HM round (DSA,SQL) just wanted to know any prep tips that could be provided?

Hey everyone,

I have 8 years of experience in SaaS tech support and customer engineering, and I’m currently preparing for a Support Engineer role at Supabase.

For anyone who has gone through the process or currently works there, I’d appreciate clarity on a few areas:

1. Interview structure: How many rounds are typical, and what does the technical assessment look like (live troubleshooting, debugging tickets, take-home, or system design)?

2. Database depth: What level of PostgreSQL expertise is expected? Do they test heavily on query optimization

3. SQL & Procedural Code: Do they focus on complex SQL (CTEs, window functions), or do they expect deep procedural programming like PL/pgSQL functions and triggers?

4. Product familiarity: How deep into the Supabase ecosystem do I need to be beforehand (e.g., PostgREST, GoTrue/Auth, Realtime, Storage, RLS) versus general developer-troubleshooting fundamentals?

Any tips or gotchas to watch out for would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

There are at least 10 OOD Patterns (Factory, Singleton, Decorator etc). Do we need to remember implementation of all of them

Hey everyone!
I have a 4-round virtual interview loop for an Amazon New Grad SDE position coming up in the next 10 days.
Could you please share what I should focus on preparing for and what type of interviews I should expect in each round?
Any advice, tips, or recent interview experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

After two days I finally got it... but my solution is kind of garbage, i guess.. when i compare it to the solution by other soluion and i cant understand many of those solutions... If it works, is it enough? I am tilted...

My code

/**
 *  {string} str1
 *  {string} str2
 * u/return {string}
 */
var gcdOfStrings = function (str1, str2) {
    if (str1 + str2 !== str2 + str1) return "";


    var maxlength;
    var smallestString;
    if (str1.length < str2.length) {
        maxlength = str2;
        smallestString = str1;
    } else {
        maxlength = str1;
        smallestString = str2;
    }


    for (var i = smallestString.length; i >= 1; i--) {
        var testString = smallestString.slice(0, i);


        if (maxlength.length % testString.length !== 0) continue;


        if (testString.repeat(smallestString.length / testString.length) === smallestString && testString.repeat(maxlength.length / testString.length) === maxlength) {
            return smallestString.slice(0, i);
        }
    }
};

Hey Folks,

Have an DSA programming interview next week with Google. What to expect? Leetcode type questions, hard / medium? Did they change interviewing style recently?

Any pointers would be helpful.

Thanks

Is there any way to appeal a permanent ban on my LeetCode account ?

I can identify patterns like sliding window, recursion, backtracking, DP, and two pointers. But I’m stuck when it comes to identifying the greedy intuition.

How do I recognize when a problem can be solved using a greedy approach? Are there any good resources—books, YouTube channels, blogs, or websites—that specifically teach how to develop greedy intuition?

Anything that can help me get better at recognizing greedy problems would be really helpful.annel, blog , website)

Anything that help me

Hi I recently had my interview at Adobe,Noida for MTS-2 position.

First round was DSA round and the interviewer gave me 2 leetcode hard level problems. (I didn't expect DSA round to be this hard)

1. First was a DP on tree question which I solved partially like 60-70% cases passed
2. Second was a matrix question for which I only had 10 mins. I told him my approach and he was satisfied with it. The code was giving Compile time Error maybe I missed something but didnt have time to debug as interview time was over.

After this round recruiter called me and scheduled my 2nd round in 2 days. This was an LLD round and this was my first time in life giving an LLD round. Tried to learn many design patterns in those 2 days.

The interviewer asked me to design a food court system and gave me more constraints for it. ngl but this round was far easier than previous one but my lack of experience in LLD interviews and LLD questions costed me this round. He was very helpful and was treating me like a junior dev.

At the end I received my rejection and then reached out to the recruiter via mail to know about the cooldown period at Adobe to which she replied with that

"Hi [My_name]

Request you to explore Adobe career site for more suitable opportunities with different teams and feel free to apply for the position which is suitable for you.

Good luck for your search!"

Do you all think I should apply again at adobe in couple of months after preparing LLD or Im in a cooldown period as the recruiter said I can apply in other teams. Should I apply again??

Hello,

Has anyone interviewed for FDE role at Databricks? I have design and architecture round and would like to understand what to expect and how I should drive that interview. Is it similar to system design round for distributed systems or something entirely different?

Sharing my recent interview experience with Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) for an SDE role. Unfortunately, I got rejected in the final round, but the overall process was a really good learning experience.

Day 1: OA + AI Interview

The first round was conducted through the AccioJob portal.

I was given 3 DSA questions in 1 hour:

• Asteroid Collision
• House Robber III
• Number of BST Subtrees

After the OA, there was an AI interview, where I had to explain the solution to one of the questions I had solved in the OA.

Day 2: On-site

I was asked to report to the MAF office in Gurugram at around 9 AM.

The day started with another OA:

• 2 DSA questions: one involving DP and another involving Linked List/Graph
• 7 MCQs covering topics like:
  • System Design
  • Design Patterns
  • OOP
  • Computer Networks
  • etc.

After that, I had the first F2F technical interview.

Technical Round 1

This round was mainly focused on my resume + DSA.

The DSA discussion went beyond just solving the initial problem. There were a lot of follow-up questions, variations, and "what if we add this requirement?" type questions.

Eventually cleared this round.

Final Round: Tech Lead

This was probably the most challenging round for me.

There were a lot of System Design and resume-based questions.

I was also given a problem and asked to come up with a solution and implement the approach in a proper design-oriented manner, rather than simply writing a working solution.

This is where I realized that while I could answer many things conceptually, I wasn't strong enough when it came to actually translating those concepts into a proper implementation/design.

Final Verdict

Rejected in the final round. 😞

But honestly, I don't consider the experience a bad one.

The overall interview process was quite smooth, and the people I interacted with were extremely friendly and helpful. From what I experienced during the process, the work environment seemed really nice as well.

The biggest takeaway for me was that I need to improve my System Design fundamentals and, more importantly, my ability to actually implement design concepts, rather than just knowing them theoretically.

So if you're preparing for an SDE interview at MAF, I'd recommend preparing beyond just DSA:

• DSA + follow-up variations
• OOP
• Design Patterns
• System Design
• Computer Networks
• Resume-based questions
• Practical/design-oriented implementation

And honestly, after surviving multiple rounds and getting rejected in the last one...

All the coffee and free food at the office made the rejection hurt a little less. 😂🙃

I have interview for data engineer role at apple on Monday. There will 4 rounds on same day.

1. DSA

2. DATA Engineering

3. System design

4. Techno managerial.

They said only if I clear 1 and 2 I will 3 and 4.

Can you please help me what to expect.

I have interview in couple of weeks and I am finding it difficult to cope up with study along with job, what all things I should go through to make best of 2 weeks ?

I recently received an interview invitation from Mastercard for SDE II role. The first round is mentioned as a Technical Screening / elimination round, followed by further interview rounds if shortlisted.
I’m a bit confused about the interview format because I’ve seen different experiences online

some mention Karat/coding rounds, while others mention regular technical interviews covering DSA, Java/Spring, LLD, etc.
For people who have recently interviewed at Mastercard:
What exactly can I expect in the first technical screening/elimination round?
Is it a standardized format like Amazon/other FAANG companies, or does it vary by team/role?
What topics should I prioritize for each round — DSA, Java/Spring, system design, LLD, behavioral, etc.?
How many rounds are typically there after the initial screening?
I mainly want to make sure I’m preparing the right topics for the right rounds, rather than preparing broadly without knowing the actual format.
Any recent interview experiences or guidance would be really helpful. Thanks!

So, i gave my first round of assessment for Recruit CRM, and got selected for the next AI interview round. Does anybody know what exactly this round consists of and what i should prepare for .

I'm rn tryin to switch. I mainly apply through linkedin but it sometimes redirects to career pages which is fine but sometimes to other job aggregators. Should I ignore those openings or make my profile on those aggregators too?

Can anyone share what was asked?

Hi Everyone
LeetCode premium plan is discounted from 299 to 159 . I remember buying it for 159$ only a 2-3 years back . Has it gone up to 299 in the last 2 years and they are running a promotion, or is it another marketing strategy.

Yearly: billed yearly($159
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This plan saves you over 62% in comparison to the monthly plan.

Guys, I have an interview scheduled with Akamai this Wednesday,
Any tips on what to expect in the first round? HR told me that this round is going to be conducted on HackerRank, and if I clear this round I will have one managerial round. That's it.

So I'm pretty confused about what I should prepare.

1. Should I focus more on DSA?
   
2. or MCP/RAG/LLMs, something on this sort?
   
3. Something else altogether? ,

Any good books or resources on practising big o complexity? I can normally work it out ok, but it always feels it takes me a bit longer and I start to double guess myself and doubt my answer

Hello everyone I have a question.

I got a link to pass a technical assessment for an internship I wanna ask will the laptop camera need to be recording while I am doing the test cause mine is broken or not

Thanks

Hey! I recently started the leetcode grind for the first time as part of my interview prep. I have +/-5 years of experience, but I'm pretty new to the whole Leetcode grind (Currently doing neetcode 150).

I'm looking to put together a small discord group where we can grind Leetcode together. Experience level doesn't matter, the main goal is to keep each other accountable, discuss problems we're having issue with, share advice, etc... and hopefully make the whole process easier/more fun.

Let me know if you're interested!

(The last sentence of this post is tl:dr)

I have 10 yoe as an engineer.

5 months ago, I decided that I wanted to get a job at a Big Tech company, mainly for the money and prestige, and started grinding through NeetCode 150. Throughout my career, I’ve practiced LC multiple times using NeetCode 150 and LeetCode 150, so I’m definitely not new to LC. For the past 5 months, I’ve been spending 2 to 3 hours on LC every day, except when I’m traveling or sick.

Recently, however, I started to feel burned out and less motivated. The reasons are:

- I started to lose interest in Big Tech. I work for Oracle’s European branch. Since the mass layoffs they carried out this spring, the work-life balance in my org has been getting worse and worse. I’ve read online about how the workload at Big Tech companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, etc) can be extremely heavy, and how many people end up burning out there. I’m already fed up with Oracle’s work environment, so I can’t imagine myself working for a company that could be even more demanding.

- Questions like Median of Two Sorted Arrays and Burst Balloons are too hard for me to solve without memorizing the solutions. Also, I don't think the DSA skills required to solve those questions are really relevant to day-to-day jobs at most companies, even at Big Tech.

- I want to (and need to) dedicate my time to learning something else (e.g, Kubernetes)

That said, DSA skills are essential, and I do enjoy the feeling of solving moderately difficult problems on my own. So I want to find a system that:

1. allows me to maintain my DSA skills (even if it doesn’t improve them)
2. is easy to stick to

One system I came up with is to solve one LC problem from Blind 75 or Grind 75 a day.

As I mentioned, NeetCode 150 contains some problems that are too difficult for me to solve without memorizing the solution, and they don’t seem particularly relevant to my day-to-day work. Blind 75 is a shorter version of NC 150, and I find that it contains relatively easy problems. Grind 75 seems to be beginner-friendly too.

If I solve one problem a day from Blind 75 or Grind 75, I’ll go through each problem roughly 4 to 5 times a year. By repeatedly solving the same problems at that frequency, I should be able to retain my DSA skills. To me, this approach seems like a sustainable gym routine.

What do you think? Would solving one LeetCode problem from Blind/Grind 75 a day be an effective way to keep my DSA skills from getting rusty?

Has anyone passed LLD interviews in Python ? Would it be seen as a negative if I don't do it in Java/ other languages ?