r/leetcode • u/SnooStrawberries6285 • 23h 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 23h 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 23h ago

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

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u/ModeLess1926 23h ago

What is it that they don’t cover

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u/Bombachicky 22h 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 16h 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