I Solved 1583 Leetcode Questions Here's What I Learned
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I feel it's a shame that people now think, I need to get better at programming, and they don't write some cool programs to become better but they will do leetcode problems for countless hours.
The biggest problem with pen and paper or whiteboards is that I need to actually remember the legacy skill of handwriting.
I would like to see prime doing a leetcode contest. it will be interesting to see how he approaches problems.
Wow, start with easy problems and then increase difficulty. This is really next level advice. Life changing
I stopped leetcode and started focusing 100% on building projects. Leetcode is good but I think starting out building things is completely diff
I use leetcode for de-dusting my skills on a language. If I haven't used a given language for over 3-4 years, a dozen problems on all difficulties is more than enough to refresh for interviews.
One really nice thing about leetcode problems is that you can jump into one and finish it with very little warmup. On the flipside, if I'm working on a project, I need more time to get into a flow state in order to be productive. I can just crank out leetcodes because they are self-contained problems.
Most of coding don't really need any complicated algorithm problems.. In my experience, it was way, way more important to know OS, networking, compiler, PL well. And people who knows these well can always pickup required algorithm and data structure knowledge when needed.
I think in companies, it is more about understanding frameworks, storage solutions, networking. the maximum what I had was if I understand the complexity O-Notation of a given problem.
There is a reason why he is very much into Leetcode, coz in India interview process is fucked up like anything, College Gard has to go through 4-6 rounds on interview in order to get internship at good product based company, hence he was compelled to do that much of programming, I don't blame him, on top that the job market is way more competitive in India.
Solving leetcode or algoexpert problems is fun and challenging and will make you a better PROGRAMMER for sure, but does nothing for your DEVELOPER career imho. Being a good, professional developer is so much more than being able to sort a list or create a linked list or whatever. It's design patterns, using frameworks, working in a team, using GIT or some other source control system, etc. etc.
As a junior/mid I'm on stackoverflow all the time. It usually points me in a good direction towards solving the problem I have at that moment... but I've never experienced situation where I was able to copy/paste some portion of the code that would just work. I suppose it's funny as a meme but I don't find it as a realistic situation.
im with the same employer for years, however i at least go to an interview 1-2 a year. its also good to get in touch with reality sometimes :)
I will say it's not easy solving algos .. with experience and taking the time to learn the underlying concepts of the different algos you'll see. Solving algos becomes second nature because it intuitively makes sense to you what you're trying to do.
As a senior, I can guarantee you even you understand DSA fundamentals very well, you would easily fail at LeetCode questions, you just have to come back to LeetCode again and again. The problem is LeetCode skills don't stick.
I use stackoverflow not just as a quick reference but because it helps check if there's a new way of doing something.
After 20 years, I can count how many times I've had to write a red-black tree in real life on 0 hands. If you have to implement this stuff yourself then you're doing something wrong.
"Apply to companies you don't care about." may not always be a good approach because not all companies have the same interview process. I have never in my life had a whiteboard interview so no matter how many interviews in smaller companies I did, I would never get anything near passing the big tech interview.
Random indian guy: i solved 9999 leet code questions but i gonna shitcode in production. enjoy
Prime explaining his notes brought back my interest in discrete maths lmao thanks