How to make DS/Algo Prep fun?

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What keeps you motivated to grind leetcode or random design question every day/week? Tried multiple times and given up 😔 YOE - 10

How to prepare for interviews while you're working on a full time job. Eg: DSA, System Design ,etc Pls share things which worked for you. Thanks.

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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 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.

I'm a backend engineer with 6+ YoE. I have never had interest in solving DSA problems. I started off as being very bad at it- I did understand the technical details behind various data structures and algorithms, but never had that passion about applying it to various leetcode problems. Over time, I have got better with DSA, but I still can't say I am at a great level- I still often struggle with Leetcode-medium problems. I am confident of being a decent engineer- with a nice mix of tech and soft skills and an interest in building things. I also have some aspiration of joining a Faang company (or other such top-level company); but I feel overwhelmed at how "good" it requires you to be in DSA. So, I wish to know- how good do I need to be at DSA before I can realistically apply at such companies, given my YoE. And, how may I possibly gauge how far away I still am from that "required level"?

I always try to practice as much as I can. I believe and understand that the concepts I am touching/ brushing up is what needs to be done instead of the number of problems I solved. But at the same time I always feel under prepared. I don't feel confident that I have covered much and is enough for the interviews. What should be the strategy to deal with it?

I am a 2023 batch passout BE CSE, i worked in Newfold Digital company for 7 months in support and now I have just joined tech Mahindra as Associate Software Engineer, I want to know how should i move forward to get a 12lpa package. I have worked on backed(java) Also considering current situation of AI, I would appreciate any comments other fields such as Deep learning or ML

I have an interview coming up with a fintech company in the internal tools/platform team that builds tools for SRE team. YOE: 3 years Have worked with Go, Kubernetes and mainly around infrastructure operations/programming. How should I go about preparing for the interview? Any over the top topics in your mind that I should definitely prepare and any good resources that you think would help, please comment them. Sending props and good karma :)