Google’s DSA practice

I needed some help in coming up with a study plan to specifically train for Google's interview process. I currently have 4yoe, so I think the interviews will be for SDE2 role. There will be 3 DSA rounds, 1 Googleyness, and 1 Leadership round. I already have experience in DSA and have solved most of Neetcode 150 (except DP, Bit Manipulation, and some hard problems). If any of you have given Google (or any FAANG) interview before, I would love to get some guidance on how to prepare in 30 days. I already know most of the common algorithms like DFS, BFS, Sliding window, Binary search, etc so I won't have to start from scratch. Also, the recruiter mentioned that I will have only 45 mins to solve two questions: mostly 1 hard and 1 medium. So I basically have around 20 mins per problem, which I feel is very difficult to solve a Leetcode Hard problem unless you have seen it before. Did I misunderstand the recruiter? Are there any tips on how to get good at this?

I'm trying to prepare for FAANGMULA Applied Scientist interviews and Leetcode seems to have company specific questions.

Have upcoming dsa rounds at Google for staff software engineer position at Google. Any suggestions on the type or topic of questions to expect. Any prep guide or study material would also help a lot.

Planning to start prepration for switching to other companies for SDE2, have around 3 yrs of experience now totally. What should I focus on more? I am pretty okay in DSA, but still will start from scratch. Any resources or roadmap that can help for SDE2 roles in companies like Microsoft, Google, Walmart or Atlassian, etc. Current compensation is 20lpa, looking for around 35lpa in switch. Any resources or roadmap or your experience will be very helpful, thanks. P.S. - Will be switching next year after appraisal, just gonna start preparing now.

I have a interview coming for FAANG next week. I want to solve some premium problems listed on Leetcode, but don't want to spend unnecessary 30 usd. anyone who knows where can I find those questions?

Hey SDEs and techies out there, plz give me an info. I have been consistently practicing DSA for the past 4 months , I have solved around <200 problems. Now when can I consider myself an interview ready? I can understand that "mere count" doesn't matter, but as an employee/hiring manager/Recruiter how much of Leetcode (say 3000+/500+ problem) will attract you to check out the profile/give referral/get interested in? What else will you look out for in a candidate with 2YOE? Your insights will be valuable. Thanks a ton

Hi all, For getting into Google, Amazon.. DSA is a compulsion? Can we not give interviews based on our skillsets? Can anyone guide me to get into these firms ?

I’m a college grad from IIT in CSE. I haven’t done any competitive coding or any proper coding during my college days for that matter. I have lost confidence in myself for some reason. I had taken up a business job but left it in a few months because I thought I could do better. I want to do competitive coding but as soon as I open my laptop, anxiety kicks in. I need guidance on how to proceed and what recourses should I use. I don’t want to waste my degree as I feel I can do better than my previous job. Please help me on fighting my demons.

I graduated in 2023 and currently I am working as a back-end developer (node js) in iot based start-up. My CTC is 5.8 Lpa and it is a WFH job. I have some free time in a day and want to prepare for the product based company. I couldn't figure out what I should start with? Should I grind leetcode or codeforces? Apart from this, what additional things should I prepare for product based companies? Any resources I should go through? My target is to switch in the next 6 months with some decent pay.

What DSA topics one should focus more on for Google sde interviews?