I'm a 4th year student from a pvt college. Did 3 internships, one in a decacorn, one in a unicorn. Have an offer from Amazon for SDE 1 when i graduate, and one from the company I'm working at right now. Reached so far only with development skills, projects, hackathon wins and OSS contributions.
My leetcoding and competitive coding skills are downright garbage. I have absolutely no motivation to become a leetcode monkey and get more offers, but given the current market scenario, seems hard to get good offers without mugging up 800 leetcode questions.
Folks in software engineering who made it with leetcode, how did you do it, and what did you do to kill that builder urge and mug up leetcode. I can't do this anymore.
Why are you bothered about leetcode when you already have multiple offers? This leetcode thingy is a new stuff in market (few yrs I mean). 4 yrs back nobody even heard of it. Or may be few did, but it was not really that known. Even now, people don’t necessarily have to mug it up to crack product based companies’ interviews. That said, I haven’t cracked any FAANG level companies, so can’t be sure, but to me it looks a bit hyped up thing.
To answer your first question, just to be on the safe side + negotiate. Agree with your point. Thanks for the input kind sir.
Welcome. Better will be to create some app and upload the code on github. Create multiple apps, or even some small specific purpose programs. It will be learning experience too, and you will get some github to show off too. Besides, you can also collaborate with others on github. You can even fix issues in others’ codes. If you don’t get the idea of what to create, you can just search the popular repos/projects there by your language and then you can try to create the same by your own code without copying that other one.
I spent 2 years of my college life doing competitive programming and Leetcode but ended up joining a startup once I realised the growth potential in a start-up vs in a FAANG type company. I'd suggest you do Leetcode only till the point you know basic DSA and spend remaining time building big projects.
Do you want to get offer from all of companies in India? That you can't do even after solving 6000 problems
Not really, but having 1 or 2 more will help negotiate + this recession thing is really pissing me off so yes gotta be a bit safe.
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