How to actually grind Leetcode | Strategies to get you Leetcode + interview ready

ah leetcode. a familiar foe! we'll talk about what leetcode is, how to build up your confidence with leetcode, and most importantly, how to create a schedule to plan out your leetcode sessions. use the notion template above to help keep yourself accountable and write out your goals/motivations and sessions out!

thanks for watching!
cheers, laura 🍋

🍃 t i m e l i n e 🍃
0:00 introduction
0:44 what is leetcode
3:04 starting out with leetcode
6:35 setting up a schedule energy
13:40 practicing efficiently
15:55 general tips

🍃 c o n t a c t 🍃
📥 | laurajjiang [at] gmail [dot] com

🍃 r e s o u r c e s 🍃
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🍃 a b o u t 🍃
hey! i'm Laura, a full-time product manager and i studied computer science in college. i want to help demystify the post-grad transition, full-time work, and personal finance. i also want to help you land your next internship or full-time role! thank you so much for watching :)

🍃 m u s i c 🍃

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[Jambajakumba]

The fact that people take their time to give someone guidance on the struggles they went through and pave their path. And someone dislikes this😒.
Thank you for this video. I've honestly stumbled on this channel and I enjoyed it. Thank you again❤️.
I've recently started with LeetCode, I hope it gets me where I want to be.

[matt]

leetcode is one component of the interview - unless you're going to work at FAANG or some really high end job it's likely not going to be the most important part of the interview. That's going to be the behavioral questions and whether they see you as a good fit longer term.

[TheOscarJB]

the methodologies here are systematic and efficient, it deserves more views to help more people

[muddasirkhan]

One of the most helpful and empathic videos I’ve seen, thank you. +1 for the description.

[avinabneogy]

This is amazing .actually help me get back to preparing for internships for the next summer! Thanks <3

[kevinhuang]

that schedule gonna be really helpful thanks!! also loved the aesthetic

[fosnmwz]

thank you. dropped out 3 years ago and this helped me pick it back up

[ankitabasu]

Girl just recently unknowingly I started something similar strategy
But after listening to your version I guess I will improvise my reinforcement practice 😮and try that out
Damn

[mengchenli]

*Inhales

ME AND MY HOMIES HATE LEETCODE

[carloss]

that was just what i needed. thanks a lot, laura!

[tim]

Honestly I don’t agree with grinding leetcode to get interview ready. I have a buddy who just got a job making 6 figures as a software developer and he didn’t get asked a single leetcode question. For me, I am interviewing for C# and Java jobs, and I honestly think doing these problems are not very useful. I’ve been making API’s and business applications, and that experience is so much more useful. Granted I can solve a lot of leetcode questions from easy to medium but anything hard would probably take me over 2 hours or just not possible for me right now. I think that’s ok too I’m not going to grind any more than that. I’d rather be more well rounded in my GIT, familiarizing myself more with my IDE, SQL, and the various technologies I want to work in. I think going the approach of just solving leetcode problems is kind of defeating the purpose of programming, which is to build applications. Anyway not trying to take away from your video, but I am going to start my job search soon for being a Java or C# developer (hopefully C# lol). So I may seem like an idiot in 3-4 months when I am unemployed haha. But I’ll be fine because even when I get a problem in an interview I’ve never seen before because I don’t grind leetcode, I’ll be able to brute force it, explain my code, and explain the time complexity. I think even if you code something that is O(n) when O(log n) is possible, as long as you can explain your solution cleanly and show you can code, it doesn’t matter to an interviewer. If an interviewer really thinks I should know how to do a data structure or algorithm that is barely or never used in real world applications, I don’t want to work for that company. I don’t really want to work at a place like google or Amazon right now anyway. I’d rather build up experience in the industry and use that to build my career rather then grinding my ass off to work for a specific company.

Anyway not trying to take away from your video I don’t think it’s bad advice, but I do think there is too much leetcode hype on the internet when most people looking for good coders don’t care about how many leetcode problems you can solve: they care about how well you can code. How well you code and how many leetcode problems you can solve are not the same imo. Granted if u can crank out hard leetcode problems you’re probably pretty good haha but being able to solve all the easy ones the most efficient way possible isn’t an accurate depiction of how well you can code.

[bombrman]

using python is litterally buying you comfort with how fast you can solve things, ya you could argue the speed of it or whatever else, but i'd rather solve something in 5 lines over 15 lines

[dvilscry]

Thanks for the advice! This was a very good general advice on how to start and how to plan out a method of attack.

[DesireG]

This is good stuff, , really appreciated how concise and practical your tips were

[shrutivellanki]

Fantastic video and fantastic Notion template!! Thank you so much. Also you are extremely well spoken :)

[CrazyPaine]

Thank you so much for this video many other videos just droned on and on about things i didn't understand. Thank you for breaking it down and I'm also adding codewars to help with recalling and repetition.

[SamriBliss]

Thanks for taking the time to create the notion page :) and this video.

[niharikapatil]

Thank you Laura Jiang for make this video

[sashafalvey]

amazing video thank you so much for the advice :)

[smartsoothing]

Just a beginner (tempted) question - Does anyone knows how to get the LeetCode 50 days badge??..Is that by solving daily challenge problems for 50 days or solving any problems for 50 days??