How I cracked my Google interviews - Leetcode tips, 5 strategies for success (Part 2)
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- I spent 200 hours solving Leetcode problems until I learned these 5 strategies and cracked my coding interviews as a software engineer (without a CS background). I'll share how I made Notion notes, docs and spreadsheets when systematically prepping for my interviews. Watch this video to save yourself hundreds of hours grinding Leetcode. Don't worry if you don't understand the nitty-gritty Leetcode examples I used, I'm just trying to illustrate how I adopted the 5 high-level strategies and how they can potentially help those interested in tech, so we're all good. Part 1 ► • How I cracked Google -...
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0:52 1. Identify DSA patterns
1:06 1.1 Mindmap & Notion table
2:15 1.2 Code template
3:19 1.3 Track performance
4:08 2. Leetcode like a pro
5:55 3. Find time to prep with full-time job
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I love this video! Thank you so much for sharing your insights so that other people can benefit from it!
Thank you! Appreciate it 💕
as fellow coder, leetcode grinder and interviewee/r, I can confirm that if you do all that Gabrielle says to do in this video you will get a FAANG SWE job. Great video!
Great. Even the b-roll footage is nice for the pacing. Thanks for reminding me that I need to, ya know, actually organize my studying ;)
Everybody makes same type of strategy videos.
Some of the tips which you've mentioned are very unique and I've never heard of them.
Thankyou for sharing this strategy with us.
If possible please do share the Notion template with us.
That's a very helpful video! It's informative, detailed and insightful. I can see your hard work in preparing for the Google interview as well as this video. The five strategies suggested can sure save us a lot of time in the preparation work!
Thank you! Glad you found it helpful and insightful 😀 This might be my most detailed video so far, but if sharing my experience can save people time then it's worth the effort.
Heyy! Gabrielle, this was a really insightful video. I've realized what I was doing wrong and also you've given reallyyyyy great tips!! It would be nice if you could share your notion templates in the description box for references!
Really gives me a perspective about how good my preparation should be. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your prep journey. Just what I needed.
Thanks for your kind comment :) Glad it was helpful!
I really enjoyed the video and esp the preparation tip. I really like the notion tables! thank you
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video and liked the tips! :)
One of the best Interview preparation strategy .. Thanks!!
Thanks so much! 💖 glad you found that these are some of the best strategies!
This video is a gold mine ❤.
Thank you! Glad you found the strategies shared in this video valuable ☺️
Nice video! I really like the idea of making a notion table and learning code templates👍
Thank you :) ! Glad you liked the idea too, this method really helped me connect the dots among Leetcode problems
Love this video! Good sharing!
Thank you! Appreciate it 🤍
This video I needed thank you for sharing your experience 🎉
Thank you!! Glad you found it helpful :)
Thank you Gab for this video . if possible can u share Notion notes it will be helpful for us
Awesome. Gabrielle, your thoughts are very practical and effective way of preparing for Google. I do have similar strategies. Such creamy ideas comes only after doing thorough research while preparing. Google seekers should follow these guidelines.
Thank you so much! Glad you found these guidelines effective and yes, I did lots of research back then and learned through others and my own mistakes! 😄
Thanks a lot for sharing these valuable informatio. God bless you.
Thank you for your kind words :)
Great video ! you are going to blowing up on youtube
Thank you :) ! I hope so 🤞
Thank you gabrielle this is a great video can you please share the your notion page of the DSA Pattern Table I would be really greatful for you !
Hi, this is one of the best videos out there.
Could you please share the notion and, the Google doc and sheet? These are really helpful tools.
I truly appreciate your time and help.
Keep up the best work.
Great video Giga! How about you share the notoin table and the google sheet you made with us?😊
I like the way you prepared and strategized for cracking Google. Congratulations!!
Could you please share the Notion template here.
Thanks!
I like that line 'Your sister land's in google and now it's your turn'.
Thanks gabriel !
See you soon in google 🙈
Thanks! :) see you soon 🙌
Amazing insights..
Thank you so much for the interview. It is very useful!
Appreciate it, glad you found it useful! :)
@@GigaGab I just got passed the Google Hiring Assessment today. Fingers crossed to get through the interview!
@@TheBalletnat Congrats, so happy for you! Fingers-crossed
Hi Giga ... can u please make a video about the specific problems u did ..... and your timetable for solving leetcode problems...it will be so helpful .... please... i have many questions...i'm also preparing ... and doing leetcode along with web dev ... so please make a detailed video about all this
Thank you , Amazing strategies
Thank you! Glad you found the strategies helpful :)
really great video
Hey that's awesome!. Can you share link to your resources?? Coz your notes are looking so awesome 👌
Please read the comments and share your notion and google doc templates . Great video!!
Hello Gabrielle, thank you so much for this very informative video and congratulations to you !
question : would it be possible to share the google docs you showed in the video ? i think it might be helpful to a lot of us. Thanks again.
dam I really liked this video. I'm not sweaty enough to go trough any of this but at least it is legit advice, you know? no "make sure you have fun" or "I'm not even talented just hard working" guru shit. It's specific, doesn't try to tell you what to think but what to do. If anything, it is too confident to be public, but its refresh rate makes it up for it. I only wouldve liked it more if you said "I wrote down examples of what I did" instead of "then write down examples of what you did". Subtitles are awesome too just for us x2 non native watchers
It's also sexy for the youtube algorithm, just a good work. I'm not gonna do any of this ever but I appreciate your assertiveness
Hi can you please share the word doc ? If possible. Btw loved your whole video. Thank you :)
Good insights, any chance you can share the Notion template you used.
Hi Giga Gab, please share a link to the Notion page you'd described in the video. I understand that we'll still have to do the work for ourselves, but the reference page would help a whole lot of us to create a similar understanding of the DS / Algo and optimization patterns.
Excellent video. Would have been even better if you linked the notion file
hey can you please share that notion doc it will be really helpful for revising as i have my interview soon!
Loved the video!
if possible can you share Doc template link for reference?
You are amazing sister. Could you please share your docs of arranged questions . It looks super curated as well as structured.
Thank you for the strategies! Are you able to share the google docs? I'd really appreciate it if you could as I would like to review some of the concepts while diving into Leetcode.
good explanation, can you please share the notion list so i can get idea how you made it?
Appreciate you for great video. It would great be to see your learning notes. Would you mind to share it ?
No matter how you spin it, you gotta practice a lot and just get good
Thank you Gabrielle
You're welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Can you plz also share some insights about system design too?
I almost never comment on YT, but thank you very much. I was wondering if you could give us some insights on how to have a better resume?
Nice Video, Can we get access to the "DSA pattern" page & "Google Interview Prep" doc that you have created plz?
Please share the Notion DSA Pattern Table and DSA Code Template
Yessss
She made her own. You should also make your own.
@anirbandhara8835 by that logic, you shouldn't read other people's books, you should write your own.
Hey Gab, is it possible for you to share the notion template you created? Thanks.
Loved the video! Can you share the excel sheet you were showing.
Great video. Can you please share your notion template?
Loved the video! Could you possibly share the template doc and the DSA pattern table link? It would be incredibly helpful for my learning journey. Thank you in advance!
I am also interested
Can you pls share the word doc that you had created which discusses all the patterns and optimization techniques plss
Can you share the DSA Pattern table that you have created?
Could you please provide the code template document that you have created. Thank you😄
Can u share that all notes you mentioned
Btw Thank you so much for your valuable information
Can you please share your Google doc, and notion doc
great share
Thank you :) I'm happy to see your comment
Hey can you share the link of your DSA pattern table??.It would be very useful to us😊😊
0:42 your sister has joined google and now it’s your turn - OMG SO SWEET ❤❤ what a motivation
This is such a kind comment, thank you! 💕
is it possible to get a link of your notion page pweaseee
Can you please share your Notion DSA Pattern Table and Code template...
Hi, Would it possible for you to share your notion and google sheets that you mentioned in the video as a reference? Thanks
+1
Where can I find ur notion notes and tht doc ??... Can u share them pls...
Very helpful video could you plz share dsa code template?
hi gabrielle can you please share the notion one, so that we can also utilise it
Thanks Giga
You’re welcome! Thanks for commenting :)
Hi! I love this video!
How to prepare for the online coding test conducted before the interview?
can you share your google doc and notion table copy??
Can you plz share your Notion notes and spreadsheets of dsa it a hamble request
Hey!! Can i get your word doc which contains all the templates for the algorithms. It will be of so much use for my preparation. Can u please share it.
the notion link is not working, not redirecting to the sheet you created
please share the notion sheet. it will help to do mine.
Very nice
Thank you :) I'm happy to see your comment
Can you please share your leetcode patterns notion?
Btw how many LC did you solve and did you skip any topic like graph or heap ?
This is under helpful to many , I have been maintaining something similar in google sheets for dsa prep.
Looking for more content from you ❤
I solved around 300 LC in total including graph and heap. I'm happy to hear that you also maintain a Google sheet, it's really helpful to keep things organised. Thanks for commenting and supporting ❤️
can you share your notion template?
Please provide notion link
Hello Sister! I have a few queries, hope you'd answer these
1. How do get over the feeling of not being fully prepared ever?
2. This arise from the 1st point, how to stop getting into the tutorial and leetcode rabbit hole?
3. I really don't get the intuition and approach behind most of the questions which are in category of DP and Backtracking. No matter how much I practice or watch tutorial videos. It makes me feel empty, as in, I have this constant mental itch which says, what if interviewer ask you some questions from these topics? I get demotivated and lose interest in the whole process.
4. How to deal with new questions (unseen)? Are the questions at Google really unseen or are just a minor variation of the most of the problems which are there in the public domain?
Thanks!
Hi! Thanks for your questions, please see my reply below:
1. It’s hard to ever feel fully prepared, but I’d suggest taking baby steps and schedule a plan of which topics to practice on which days to have more sense of control.
2. I recommend time boxing the time spent on understanding leetcode solution. For example after 1 hour of understanding a solution, stop and do something else and get back to it on another day.
3. The idea of DP is recursion with caching. Are you familiar with recursion? I suggest starting with a DP easy question on a thing that you have heard of before (such as Pascal Triangle) and try to solve it in recursion, then optimize to DP. For example, Pascal Triangle:
leetcode.com/problems/pascals-triangle/description/
I found a list of categories of DP by other Leetcode users just now:
leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/1050391/Must-do-Dynamic-programming-Problems-Category-wise
DP template from other Leetcode users:
leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/662866/dp-for-beginners-problems-patterns-sample-solutions
Hope that helps!
can you please share your notion template
Hii
Can you share your docs and sheets and notion?
could u send us your google doc and notion plan
I can't think you as my sister though 😁🥰
Thank you for what you shared ( You sound like AI though 😉❤)
Thank you for commenting, it's my pleasure to share! Haha the AI part cracked me up, I swear I'm not secretly an AI 🙃
Any reason to get into software development? AI already replacing these jobs and companies laying off workers for many reasons
Could you please share your notes ? It’d really help help me😊
Does actually all those leetcode is applied to any situation in your job?
Hey gab beautiful video. I have a doubt, when reviewing/reading solutions from leetcode, do you check all the solutions possible or only a few ?? What is the strategy ?
Thank you! I usually look at the most liked Python solution, so I basically sort by popularity and coding language :) Usually the solution with a decent number of upvotes has a clear, detailed explanation and both the brute force and optimized code, so there’s a lot to learn from it. Unless the first one isn’t understandable, I hardly ever look at more than one solution. Hope that helps!
Within one solution post (or editorial, if available), I do read multiple approaches (especially the optimized approach). To make the most efficient use of our time to check the most popular solution post while learning a few approaches from it
@@GigaGab Thank you for the reply. Keep growing and reaching new heights sis ❤🔥
can u share your notion
Please share this notion sheet
im willing to pay for that notion table plz
Wow you are brilliant and gorgeous the whole package
Hi can you share the notes , please
please give your notion sheet
Hey can you share your leetcode profile!
Please provide the notion link
Pleaseeeeeee @Giga gab
Can you share your excel?
Noice one 👍.
Can you please share the templates you used to track things, you can just fill it with dummy data so your data is safe.
The text on that hat needs to be changed to "Cringeler" lmao
Imagine getting an interview at all
That hat was peak