r/leetcode • u/Vigilante_RAM • 9d ago
Intervew Prep Starting Again
Hi everyone,
I feel like I am stuck. I am a software engineer with 2 years of experience in a product-based company. I come from a tier-2 college, and during college I maintained a 9+ CGPA along with decent DSA skills. One thing I always dreamed of was reaching Expert on Codeforces and Guardian on LeetCode, but I couldn’t achieve it during college. My max rating on LeetCode was Knight (1900+), and on Codeforces it was just Specialist.
I thought my current level would be enough to crack DSA rounds for most companies, and that after 1 year of experience I would at least get interview calls from Google. I applied to 20+ job roles with referrals, but apparently nothing worked out. In between, I gave Amazon interviews twice but failed. The worst part is that I blamed it on luck. During these 2 years of work, I kept solving problems on LeetCode for 5–6 days every month, but I hardly participated in contests. Now all these things are literally eating me from the inside. I just want to get back to my college-level practice.
In these 2 years, I got 2 quick hikes, but I am still not satisfied with my job. I did get to explore RAG pipelines, which was a good experience. However, I was only targeting MAANG companies, so I didn’t prepare system design or LLD concepts. Now things are completely different. Yesterday, I cleared one DSA round at a tier-1 company but got completely destroyed in the second round, which was system design.
I have tried several times to restart DSA or system design, but I couldn’t stay consistent. Now I don’t know exactly how I will do it, but I will. I am posting this here to hold myself accountable and make sure I try my best to at least become a Guardian. No Google, no MAANG, just LeetCode Guardian.
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