Archives for March 2020

There’s a concept in psychology called the forgetting curve. It describes how, once you learn something, you gradually forget it if you don’t actively review. Learning to solve coding interview questions is no exception:

Even if I solve 200 algorithm questions on LeetCode and think that I understood solutions, after 2 months without solving any question, when I try to solve them again I can’t remember some of the solutions. What should I do to literally learn them? (answer)

I’m doing most of my writing on Quora this year. For more information, see A Project for 2020.

LeetCode classifies each of its problems as Easy, Medium, or Hard. This leads to discussions among users about how many of which types of problems to practice. Since even easy problems appear in interviews, it’s important to have a strategy for problems at all difficulty levels:

I can solve some of the medium problems that I attend to, in LeetCode and can never solve the hard ones. Do I have to study more to ace the Google interview until I can solve the hard ones or do I have a chance currently? (answer)

I’m doing most of my writing on Quora this year. For more information, see A Project for 2020.

Although it’s unwise to abuse the Submit button, sometimes a few submissions is what it takes to get the most out of a problem.

Is it okay to submit multiple times and look at the test cases that you’ve failed when practicing competitive programming? (answer)

I’m doing most of my writing on Quora this year. For more information, see A Project for 2020.

Companies won’t stop doing it, but that doesn’t mean candidates have to like it.

Why is it that many companies expect to find software engineers capable of solving real-world problems by throwing whiz-kid LeetCode style tests at them? (answer)

I’m doing most of my writing on Quora this year. For more information, see A Project for 2020.