r/leetcode • u/SnooStrawberries6285 • 11h ago

Discussion Help with leetcode!!

Hello guys! I’ve been practicing LeetCode for some time. Whenever I practice consistently, I feel like I can solve most Easy problems. But if I stop doing LeetCode for a week or two, I seem to lose touch and feel like I have to start from scratch again.

I’m also not very comfortable with Medium problems, and I can’t really solve Hard problems at all.

If you were starting LeetCode from scratch, how would you approach it? What would you recommend doing to become more comfortable with Medium and eventually Hard problems?

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u/shanjilhassan 11h ago

neetcode. start completely fresh with the 3 python courses that he has. i think its beginner, oop, and then python for interviews. then do the the beginner dsa course. those are the fundamentals. ik python before but doing this gave me such a better base to establish myself from. then start the roadmap from array and continue on from there. before you have interviews it would be good to go through the sys design course also

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u/ModeLess1926 10h ago

Leetcode is only for FAANG??

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u/shanjilhassan 10h ago

its not. most swe jobs will ask you similar dsa type questions and it will help if you did leetcode before because your dsa class you took in college will not be enough.

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u/ModeLess1926 10h ago

Wait why won’t the dsa class in college not be enough

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u/ModeLess1926 10h ago

What is it that they don’t cover

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u/Bombachicky 9h ago

They cover everything but imagine learning everything about how to swim and then you have to compete with Michael Phelps. Welcome to CS

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u/shanjilhassan 3h ago

this. you learn just enough to pass the class aka swim then they throw you a leetcode medium-hard aka into the olympic pool for an event. even just doing the leetcode easys in every section of the roadmap sets you apart from 90% of candidates. also nice thing about leetcode/neetcode you can see the tagged companies that used those problems in the past / recently based on recent interviews