DSA seekh loge ... Free mein paisa milega without doing any work

Paisa abhi bhi bohot h, Mujhe quality work chahiye for exponential growth. 
  
 Paisa end goal nahi h, I am willing to work at lesser salary at good companies

Software Engineer

Program Manager

I feel you man. Check early stage startups. Wellfound and YC are two good places to search for them. Have a good GitHub readme profile. all the best.

Thanks buddy! Wellfound is quite dry ryt now. I think this industry lacks this mindset that code contribution to a good opensource project > solving dsa

Founder

Hi I am a backend developer with around 4 years of experience.   I have strong development skills in building scalable & distributed systems. I have opensource contributions in reputed projects (ne...

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Hi I am a backend developer with around 4 years of experience. 

I have strong development skills in building scalable & distributed systems. I have opensource contributions in reputed projects (netflix, apache, casbin etc.). Most importantly I can take ownership of any work I get and have the capability of finishing it.

What I am not good at it is DSA. Why? Because I don’t feel like investing time there is gonna give me satisfaction. (I feel comfortable solving dsa while walking & and doing something else, not under pressure of clock in front of a guy evaluating me, my brain doesn’t work like that)

I have given up applying to companies where they ask DSA. I am LOOKING OUT for companies asking relevant questions. Or give me take-home assignment and grill me for hours, won’t mind that.

Do share if you know any. Thanks.

Any good product company hiring backend devs without DSA?

Any good product company hiring backend devs without DSA?- Grapevine

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

I am a JAVA backend dev, currently in TCS with 5.5 yrs of exp. I want to switch to a Product now. My dev skills are good. I have worked in few projects. With this many years of exp, the expectations are too high now, System Design, Kafka, Jenkins, Docker and DSA on top of that. I don't know how to start, once I start preparing DSA I feel like I am missing on reading system design and other stuff. Also, I don't feel confident about my DSA skills. Are there any devs here who were very bad in DSA but are very confident now. Please share your experiences in comments. Since I already have so many years of exp, this is my last chance to switch to a good product company. Please guide.

DSA Hell

Software Developer

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Any company hiring without a DSA interview? Maybe a take home assignment or something like that? 
I do know some DSA from college time but am out of practice and have been working as a full stack dev for 3 years.

Anyone hiring?

I've been interviewing for few months and every company requires leet code style questions. My DSA skills are rusty as I haven't continued preparation along side my job for last 2.5 years.

Any product based companies which doesn't ask DSA questions for sde2 back end role?

I am a backend engineer with a 9 year exp. In my fourth company now. Started with 5 lpa, now at 31 Lpa. 
Mostly have worked in normal companies only. I am from one of the NITs. 
I am not good at DSA. Everytime I have to switch a job, my resume gets shortlisted  and I get call via naukri. 
The things is in these last 4 job searches I have been rejected 100 times. I have been rejected by almost all the companies, 
Service now 5-6 times, oracle 5-6 times, Walmart 2 times, goldman 3 times, jpmorgan 2 times, Amazon 4-5 times, arcesium 3-4 times, msft 2 times. 
Apart from these, I have been rejected by adp, celigo, phenom, barclays, flipkart etc. 

Every time, I want to change a job, I'll get rejected by all the big companies and then will get selected at some normal company with a hike and will join them. 
I am at my fourth company now, and again I am searching for a job. Have already been rejected by GS, service now, phenom, epam, ice, demandbase in last 2 months. 
Every time it is the same DSA. 

I try studying, will do decent amount of leetcode prior to interviews. Last two months I am doing leetcode from strivers sheet. 
But same question I'll do here, and in interview will fail. Example I have done sorted array rotation, shares sell and buy, rain water trapping, and was asked the same question in interview and couldn't solve. 

I also want to earn more and get into some big company and stay there for some times, what shall I do? 

My concerns are, I am getting lesser calls this time compared to the last few years, I can't be switching job every two years. 
Want to join a big company and earn more.

How to get better at DSA?

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

I was in manual testing for 2 years. Left my job. Joined scaler. Cleared some mock interviews (except DSA). I am in desperate need of a job in developer role(full or backend). I need to clear DSA and ReactJS mock interview in order to be eligible for placements at scaler. I don’t see any other option now. And talking about DSA I don’t feel confident enough. Sometimes I go blank when there is a question. I don’t know to prepare DSA smartly and fast. Kindly suggest what should I do. 
(I’m not that bad at DSA. It’s just I’m not confident enough). 
So.. I’m open to all kind of possibilities and suggestions.

HELP !!!

I am an engineer working in Deloitte. Overall Exp 6.5yrs. My tech stack include Python, Data Science & AI-ML and GCP. I wanted to give it a try for product based company. I am not sure from where should I start? 

Just a little bit of guidance will really going to mean a lot to me. I come from a civil engineer background and I have reached Deloitte through lot of struggles. But I think I can reach further with some help.

Need a dronacharya in this kalyug 🙂

Thanks in advance.

Need a sincere suggestion from folks working in product based companies

Data engineer

Hey guys, just need your advice I have been 5 years of experience at startups and have open source contributions too and now I want to switch to some good product based companies including FAANG with some good WLB.

I am well versed with topics but I am not very sincere with doing DSA and leetcode regularly. I haven’t practiced daily and now I am looking to do it, but I lack motivation and get frustrated easily.

I am thinking to do a DSA course on weekends, will that be good? Any advice is recommended.

PS: The switch is for WLB

Advice Needed For DSA Course

I know the title might seem weird. But here’s my dilemma 
Working as an SDE with 3 YOE in an product based company remotely. Have some developer + PM experience in a small startup before
I never took DSA seriously and just learnt the basics a long time ago. I was appreciated at the startup about how I did PM work even though I wasn’t one officially. Shipped a couple of MVPs on my own as a side gig(had around 100-200 users) 

 I miss some big tech experience definitely. So should I grind DSA and look for big SDE switch even though I don’t like it much or move to product ( the pay might be affected) or do an MBA and then do product (for strong credentials/chances)? I feel maybe I am scared to do DSA/System design since I don’t find total interest in it. 

If DSA, any suggestion on a very good course, paid/free doesn’t matter.

My final goal - build great products and learn everything about what it takes to build them.
Thanks

Study DSA in depth to build world class products or become a PM?

I'm from tier 2-3 collage , got an internship in Chennai. P.s. i m from north india so huge culture gap and Language barrier. 
I was selected for the job role of data science engineer . but they have put me in SDE.
I have a good dsa skills, with enough experience in development in web and Multiple projects in AI/ML . They haven't considered my profile before assigning me to a team, no sh*t i want to switch this company asap. and in some other city like bangalore.. or Gurgaon. But as far as I can see.. there are no responses from the company i m applying to which is understandable. It is kind of implied that i have to spend at least a year before getting another job. 

Is there anyone who can suggest some ways to get me any Interview?

First Job Fears

Which companies hire without DSA in their interview process?

Hiring without DSA ?

I am working as a front-end developer in a startup for 2+ years and i want to switch to a different company.

The problem is I have only worked on the frontend in my current job though my designation is SDE in my offer letter. I don't have much knowledge about backend either.While applying for jobs the JD says i should have work experience in backend tech so in this case should I apply to those jobs or not.There are very few job openings for frontend and everyone is asking for full stack.

Will my interviewer asks questions for backend also though I have not worked on it? Or should I only focus on DSA.I have a good knowledge on frontend.

Should I just focus on frontend and DSA for my interviews? I am planning to Target FAANGM and good product start-ups

Experience - 2+

Tc - 9.5(8.5 + 1 bonus)

Are frontend devs not eligible to apply for SDE roles?

So I have 2+ years of experience in tech field as a full stack developer for 1 year and as a back end developer for another year.

Now I am at a where I need to switch.
But I am not very good at DSA, I find it non interesting and a bit difficult.

Can you suggest me ways to grow myself so that I can feel confident enough to switch?
Also can I switch without DSA ? 
Jahan dekho wahan sirf DSA hi DSA and it’s frightening 😰

Need guidance

Hey 

I joined infosys in oct - 2022 and now it’s been 1.8 months. My tech stack is MEAN stack but I was on bench through the year, recently got into a project but for only 4 months. I developed and learned by my own and gained a better knowledge on angular.
Now the situation my company has made for me that I need to switch asap, within a month or two.

Can anyone suggest me how to prep specifically so that I get offers from other company.

My DSA skills are gone and feel like I need to learn again from basics.
I have knowledge about angular.

Can anyone suggest me how much DSA I should learn and focus right now to clear interviews.
I’m planning to get a grasp over python and start doing DSA questions in that plus polishing my angular skills too. 
I have basic knowledge of node.js MongoDb too.

Will I’ll be able to switch within this time frame?

Please can anyone guide me through it so that I can plan smartly and can switch.

Your help will be really appreciated.

How to prep for switch?

I'm not able to solve DSA Problems (Med - Hard). I have my placements in 6 months and while I have good Development Skills but my DSA Skills are lacking. Every time I try to solve a question I get stuck and copy the code from the discussion section. I want to get out of this hell!! 😭🙏

Finding DSA quite Tough

I just think we should skip DSA rounds for existing FAANG employees.

I understand the importance of DSA rounds and is pretty much required for SDE 1 roles as their major work is to code. But for higher levels, it starts becoming less and less relevant and pointless.

In most companies DSA is to understand the basics of the candidate, can they write code, explain the problem and thought process. Now most FAANG interviewers look for the same thing. Now once I have cleared one that means I have proved myself to be someone who meets the bar, doing it again is just like "Well, have you continued grinding leetcode after getting the job". You can check design competencies, problem solving in design, mentoring etc. but why ask DSA and go through that gruelling interview process.

Your thoughts?

Skip DSA rounds

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.

DSA vs CP

Backend Engineer

I am currently working as a front end engineer (ReactJS) in an Indian Service based company. I have a pretty solid front end knowledge. My end goal is to be a full stack developer. So I was about to start backend engineering. But also I want to switch to a nice product based company (end goal is ofcourse MAANG type company). 
Currently I have 1+ years of experience.
It's not like I don't enjoy DSA, I enjoyed Development over DSA. My DSA skill is very basic for now (I know arrays, hashmap, two pointers thats all)
So My question is when to start DSA?
Because If I start DSA now then I need to at least give 1 year to DSA. But then I will not be able to do Backend.
Most people also say not to do dev and dsa in parallel.
So suggest something to me.
Should I do Backend first then do DSA or
Should I do DSA then do dev
Or should I do both at the same time??

I know I need to invest 3 to 4 hours daily if I need to be a full stack engineer with strong DSA skill. I am ready to be in discipline.

Right time to start DSA

"Don't judge anyone by years of experience. Judge them by their skills."

Okay, but recruiters will judge them by gender as well. Aur aapne to dono bhi (i don't consider LGTV) mention kiye hai.

And what is this new trend of ~gaslighting?

How good is this written?

I'm a 2021 graduate. I left my first job at a small startup in Bangalore in January because they refused to pay my salary and my hike for 3 months (promotion was done but just on paper, they were paying the old salary). 

I'm not good at DSA at all even though I handled multiple projects related to security and development tools using Go and have a good understanding about the language. But I'm not good at DSA at all, I don't have a leetcode account or solved any DSA problems yet. 

If I want to get a job I have to start DSA from scratch which will take a minimum of 4-6 months. Which makes me unemployed for 1 year. 

I'm scared whether this is a red flag in the recruiters point of view. And create a situation where recruiters intentionally try to hire me for less salary.

What should I do? Should I leave my current domain and switch to other technical jobs that may not require DSA during interviews or spend time to learn enough DSA to clear interviews? 

If there's any way to get some guidance from senior engineers or people who had similar issues like this in the past, please let me know.

Any good product company hiring backend devs without DSA?

Discover More

IT Company Discussion on

by Kalan Carmden

TCS

DSA Hell

Software Engineers on

by Dezi Carmden

Stealth

Anyone hiring?

Software Engineers on

by Karilyn Lee

Bookmyshow

Any product based companies which doesn't ask DSA questions for sde2 back end role?

Software Engineers on

by Kendall Hyrum

Stealth

How to get better at DSA?

Confessions on

by Dezi Gabriel

Unemployed

HELP !!!

FAANG on

by Aaron Carmden

Deloitte

Need a sincere suggestion from folks working in product based companies

Software Engineers on

by Jordon Lee

Stealth

Advice Needed For DSA Course

Misc on

by Blair Gabriel

Corporate slave

Study DSA in depth to build world class products or become a PM?

Software Engineers on

by Kalan Denver

Verizon wireless

First Job Fears

Software Engineers on

by Coy Lee

Stealth

Hiring without DSA ?

Software Engineers on

by Dezi Nadeen

Startup

Are frontend devs not eligible to apply for SDE roles?

Software Engineers on

by Kendall Everett

Barclays

Need guidance

IT Company Discussion on

by Anise Carmden

Infosys

How to prep for switch?

Software Engineers on

by Kendall Lee

Stealth

Finding DSA quite Tough

FAANG on

by Kendall Carmden

Amazon

Skip DSA rounds

Software Engineers on

by Jordon Taye

Stealth

DSA vs CP

FAANG on

by Jordon Carmden

Wipro

Right time to start DSA

Misc on

by Anise Lee

Stealth

How good is this written?

Software Engineers on

by Jordon Denver

Unemployed

Scared of having a career gap