Ask HN: How does one have the mindset to study for coding interviews?

Post by mraza007 » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 4:38 PM UTC

lowiqengineer wrote: post #50

mraza007 wrote: post #49

Honestly I would suggest stop looking at LinkedIn or CSCQ subreddit most people are just sharing there wins not losses and theres nothing wrong with that what is not okay is that it makes some people depressed that because we start comparing ourselves and that leads to depression. Honestly just focus on your goal keep motivating yourself

Yeah, I stopped going on CSCQ years ago because I knew it was just making me more depressed. Still, I know a lot of successful people personally who privately believe I'm a failure for working at the FANG i work at so the net effect is the same unfortunately.

Post by ud0 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:52 AM UTC

duggable wrote: post #52

ud0 wrote: post #28

I recently got into one of FAANG & the following are the steps I took to get there: - Create a study curriculum. - Each topic in the study curriculum should contain both reading & practice material. - The reading material tells you about the data structure or algorithm and practice lets your reinforce what you just read. - Spread this over a long period of time say 6 months. - Practice everyday, I cannot emphasise th…

What did your study curriculum look like?

Post by Ardia » Fri, Jul 03, 2020, 11:22 AM UTC

lowiqengineer wrote: post #38

_alex_ wrote: post #16

You need to spend some time on mental health. if you need help, get help. either stay at your current job or take a new job that you can get now. in either case you need to figure out how to deal with stress and how to value yourself. if you really are going to self harm when you struggle on a freaking leetcode problem, how do you think it’s going to be if you actually get the job you’re aiming for and it’s hard ever…

weirdly i'm usually fine on the job, I don't feel the same way at all. I'm generally at ease even. It's tough, it's like I feel attacked by the fact that I can't solve these in 5 minutes like the other folks I see on Linkedin.