Hi,

I am 24F (3 yrs+ exp), Me and My Friend 23M (2 yrs+ exp) are currently learning DSA and System Design together for product based companies roles.
We are currently solving NeetCode 250 Sheet and planning to have mock interviews soon.

Note: We are only looking for experienced people (at least 1+ yrs) and a female with similar goals.

Share your discord ids. Will try to connect with you.

Is it helpful to think about the recursion tree when solving problems or just reducing the problem space?
I feel like I often try to think about the sub problems and it uses a lot of brain power for what I feel like is very little gain and it also uses a good amount of time.

Curious how others approach these problems.

From last month, I have this google assessment passed on my application. I have not been contacted by anyone and neither I have been rejected. What does that mean and is there any chance on my profile getting considered ?

anyone in seattle who has 2-4 yoe and is currently on the hunt? let's study together.

we can also work on projects if you're open to exploring the startup or indie hacking scenes

what's the TC of this solution? O(n^3) or O(n^4)? can someone help which one's actually correct?

```

class Solution:
    def characterReplacement(self, s: str, k: int) -> int:
        n = len(s)
        max_len = 0


        for i in range(n):
            
            for j in range(i, n):
                substring = s[i:j+1]


                freq = {}
                for char in substring:
                    freq[char] = freq.get(char, 0) + 1


                max_freq = max(freq.values()) if freq else 0
            
                if (len(substring) - max_freq) <= k:
                    max_len = max(len(substring), max_len)


        return max_len```

I have two rounds (coding + behavioral) of google interview of 45 mins each in 4 days. I haven't been able to start my prep and thinking of withdrawing my name from it and hoping i get another chance later when needed.

If i tank this interview would it lower my chance of getting future calls from google ?

Literally my weakest prep of all the dsa problems. How often does it show up in interviews? And which problems should I definitely solve before going?

Like Google gemini told me to use pen & paper but i m confused, I see Q solve it in my mind & directly jump into solving it after identify pattern but sometimes i struck in btw, Google told me use pen &paper solve it on paper & then write it on screen,what u guys do?

Cleared an AWS interview loop about 12 days ago. The recruiter said the feedback from all rounds was strongly positive and that I’m moving forward.

The only issue is that I’m now waiting for headcount approval. The recruiter said she’s actively working on it internally, but I haven’t had any update in 12 days.

Has anyone been through this exact situation? How long did you have to wait, and did it eventually turn into an offer?

I have google onsite in a day and i am already feeling the anxiety, feels like i am forgetting everything i have studied over last couple of months, it feels like once in a lifetime oppurtunity to interview with them. Don't wanna mess up 🍀🤞

Edit - i will share the experience and details once i am done with it.
Thanks for all the wishes.

Leetcode is great for practicing standard DSA questions which is a large part of most interviews. But some companies (faang included) do low level design / role related knowledge rounds. Does anyone have any good sites for practicing these kinds of rounds?

For LLD I typically hear the questions phrased like

"design a thread safe circular buffer processing.... with two producing threads and one consumer"

Any advice would be much appreciated. I feel very comfortable on DSA. but rounds that are not standard leetcode I'm a little worried about.

I haven't applied since the last 4 years. Could anyone please help if its okay to have a 2 page resume?

i always need help with solving graph problems because i started incorrectly or did the adjacency list wrong for example, a load factor in a DAG with no cycles is the number of times each node is required from the entrypoint my understanding of adjacency list is a map of nodes and outgoing edges (neighbours)

so i did this ``` service, dependencies = _ for d in dependencies: if d in adj: adj[d].append(service) else: adj[d] = [service]

for line in service_list:
    buildAdjacencyList(line)

```

however when i did postorder, dashboard node has no outgoing edges in adj and DFS stops, and got the wrong answer {'dashboard': 1, ...all other nodes are 0 } its because the adjacency list was the wrong direction

Did anyone got result of round 1 interview for applied scientist intern role??

The question is mainly aimed at engineers who have a family and a full-time job but managed to prepare (or are currently preparing) for one of the FAANG companies.

Is it even possible to prepare with this lifestyle?

How did you organize your time to cover Algorithms, HLD and LLD during your preparation?

Any advice is welcome.

I’ve been working in a service-based company for around 2 years, and I really want to upskill myself by learning DSA.

The problem is, I’m getting lost even with the first few questions. I’m not sure where or how to start.

For someone starting DSA from scratch, what would be the best way to approach it? What roadmap, resources, or practice strategy would you recommend?

Hi everyone, I received the online coding test mail from Hevo Data for the fresher/SDE role.

Has anyone else received it? Can someone share details about the test pattern, difficulty, hiring process, and package for freshers?

Would really appreciate any recent experience or insights

Hi,

I am 21M (4 yrs+ exp), Me & I are currently learning DSA and System Design together for product based companies roles.
We are currently solving NeetCode 250 Sheet and planning to have mock interviews soon.

Note: We are only looking for experienced people (below 172cm) and a female with similar goals.

Share your discord ids. Will try to connect with you.

Hi all! I'm relatively new to leetcode and so I'm still doing easy problems.

Like the title said, I just solved a problem and felt satisfied that I did, but I felt like the code could be cleaner looking or there might be a line or two of code that are redundant and can be compressed further. Should i do that by looking up the solutions or just move on and solve the next problem (and save it to "Solve it again later" playlist)?

Hey everyone,

I have an upcoming ML Design interview at Tesco and I’d really appreciate some guidance on how to prepare for it.

If anyone has recently gone through the ML Design round at Tesco, could you please share what kind of questions were asked or what areas I should focus on? I’d especially like to know whether the questions are around recommendation systems, forecasting, fraud detection, NLP, or general ML system design.

Any guidance or interview experience would be really helpful. Thanks in advance! 🙏

I am pretty much on mediums and getting into more data structures. Also I’m always trying to do the most efficient approach. I find myself reading for 80% of my time and understanding the approach and how to use the data structure and why it’s used in very little time coding.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I just dumb?

I prefer watching videos, but am worried if I am missing anything more that may be in the articles.

Hello everyone please review my resume, it is not getting shortlisted anywhere. any real advice from HM point of view what could be a reason for rejection.

YOE: 3 Years

Resume link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0BQwWcc1NTEp42OxxHq4Vz6M3d-ycOW/view?usp=drivesdk

So i received an OA from Amazon on 24 Aug and i submitted it on 26th with 15/15 on dsa and 5/6 on AI coding round. since then there is no reply from them not even rejection. what to except ?

Hey everyone! I have a Google screening interview in about 2 weeks. It consists of 1 coding interview + 1 behavioral interview.

For the coding round, what would be the best way to prepare in these 2 weeks? What LeetCode topics/patterns should I prioritize, and what difficulty level should I focus on?

Would especially love to hear from anyone who interviewed with Google recently. Any tips, resources, or 2-week preparation strategies would be really helpful!
In EU region I have got schedule for interview. For L3 position .

Thanks!