How to Use LeetCode Effectively

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Study the topics in this order:
Recursion - Two Pointers - Binary Search - Binary Trees - Backtracking - DFS - BFS - Sliding Window - Linked List - Graph - Sorting

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Timeline
0:00 Intro
0:55 Step 1 - Get Premium Subscription
1:39 Step 2 - Start with LeetCode 100 Liked Questions
2:35 Step 3 - Focus on Topic by Topic
4:32 Step 4 - Practice with a Plan
6:20 Step 5 - Solve Company-Specific Questions
7:20 Summary & Closing

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Filmed with iPhone SE 2
Music by Yeri

PIRATE KING
Software Engineer + Career Mentor in Tech

[tejasphirke]

This is the most effective video I have ever seen!!
Step1: get the premium subscription
Step2: start with the top 100 questions
Step3: focus on questions topic by topic
Step4: practice with a plan
Step5: Solve company specific questions
PS: don't look my comment unless you have watched the entire video. I have written just a summary the whole video is explained very well

[divyathomas]

Points from the video:

Plan:
- First start with the 100 most liked questions. First 50 should be only easy or medium-level questions
- Next choose a topic, order the questions from highest to lowest acceptance rate. Solve at least 20 questions or until the patterns "click" before moving on to another topic. Sample list to start off: Binary search, Two pointers, Binary Tree, Backtracking, DFS, BFS, Graphs, Dynamic Programming

How to practice:
-Start with easy and medium. Go for hard once you know you are ready
- Don't spend more than 30 mins on an easy and not more than an hour on a medium. Then if you can't solve on, look at the solution and move on

- Learn from the solution. Understand the pattern and techniques. Look at discussion board/ videos to optimize solution and understand better
- Revisit questions especially once you couldn't solve
- Solve company-specific questions (premium subscription comes useful here)

[dreamershope]

Soo glad this was recommended by the algorithm!! Just a thing I noticed, I don't know if you're reading a script or looking yourself but try making direct eye contact to the lenses while speaking! makes a huge difference, makes you appear more confident, and also helps in maintaining audience retention!! Thanks for these tips and hope you grow a lot😀👍

[hnwlightsugar]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I just solve like 200 questions and most of them were ez, but however I can't do most of them and have to check the solutions, but a few days before I'm starting to find out a way to make the pattern to solve similar questions, like two pointers for array, sliding windows for reducing runtime...etc

[niharikapatil]

This is the best plan in the whole of YouTube, Leetcode blog, medium and the whole of internet 😍

[randompeb]

Just started my preparations. This was really helpful :)

[CraigMine]

Is it normal that im not able to solve almost any problem without looking for hints or the solution? LOL

[prashikganer]

Hey, your way of explaining us this is so humble and perfect. I would surely follow your steps! Thanks Mr. Pirate :)

[elle]

Ngl I trust u with my life tech wise bc of your coding while laying down video. Seriously. I shall listen.

[beingcheercool]

I will complete this all and update here ❤️ Thank you brother for suggestion

My Goal Is to Complete 180 Strivers DSA Sheet 🔥

[stanleychukwu]

thanks for this video man, i have been looking for a clear guide on how to tackle leetcode, i've not had a tech interview for over 5years now!! overall, your channel has great contents! i've subscribed and will be loojing forward to much greater contents in the future!!

[RC-qihs]

Thanks man, i only focused on ml upto now. I will now prepare for both data science and se roles

[Josh-gecr]

im busily applying for jobs now, but If I want to go for FANG i'm definitely gonna do this. just been grinding random leetcode questions and I now have a much more better timeline. thank you!!!!

[prttyy]

Immediately followed. Easily the most helpful video on the internet on how to break this down.

[saralee]

this is such an awesome video. love the approach that you laid out!

[TokugawaSounds]

I really appreciate this. I assumed it was best to just get started wherever but this is a better plan.

[mahmedfarid]

rare for me to like a video, you kept it short and honest
thank you

[joaodemacedo]

Hi Pirate!
In a few weeks, I will finish my dissertation so, I am starting to prepare myself for the interviews. One question, how much time, per day, did you spend in leetcode while you were preparing for the interviews?

Another thing, what do you think about doing a video on how you prepared for the interviews?

I just started watching your videos yesterday, and I am loving it!
Thank you so much and best regards from Portugal!

[bluevulpe]

Really great advice for beginner who has to climb a big mountain of hell of algorithms and data structure, thank you! but wondering whether your recommended course would be good for who is between jobs for beginner have to prepare javascript algorithms test🤔

[nelsonthekinger]

The 30 minute tip was one of those that took me a lot of time to get!