Jump to level 2

okay i got a little scared off of applying to jobs and like totally talked myself down

but y’know i can’t avoid it forever & if i actually want a reasonable salary i shouldn’t just coast onto a random postdoc / research-y position

also plenty of other people don’t really have the luxury of chillaxing and wallowing in self-pity so y’know chin up or something, and i’m sure i’ll actually just feel much better actually doing something about something

anyway ok so i’m still mixed feelings about paying to study for technical interviews even if in theory it should be worth the money / a worthwhile investment vs. eating like 5 pizzas or something

just feels weird when there’s plenty of resources online, and i know that i have a low success rate of sticking with online things anyway

anyway, so if i use leetcode.com (arbitrarily) and go to problems, they have study plans, unfortunately these are a little gated, so i’ll instead copy them & go to them individually (since there is a full list, and a decent chunk of them are just listed in the freely accessible problems section)

This study plan is for those who want to prepare for technical interviews but are uncertain which problems they should focus on. The problems have been carefully curated so that levels 1 and 2 will guide beginner and intermediate users through problems that cover the data structures and algorithms necessary to succeed in interviews with most mid-tier companies. While level 3 provides material to help users whose targets are top-tier companies.

https://leetcode.com/study-plan/leetcode-75

Maybe a bit sketch, but since this doesn’t have the actual content of the questions…. So in order that’s

Level 1 – 15 days (15 days)

Problem ID	Topic
1480	Prefix Sum
724
205	String
392
21	Linked List
206
876
142
121	Greedy
409
589	Tree
102
704	Binary Search
278
98	Binary Search Tree
235
733	Graph/BFS/DFS
200
509	Dynamic Programming
70
746
62
438	Sliding Window / Two Pointer
424
1	Hashmap
299
844	Stack
394
1046	Heap
692

https://leetcode.com/problemset/all/

https://leetcode.com/problemset/all/?search=

Level 2 (25 days)

Problem ID	Topic	Date Start/Done
202	Implementation/Simulation	done
54		read
1706		skip
14	String	done
43		skip, wat
19	LinkedList	done
234		done 4.26
328	LinkedList	done 4.27
148		done 4.28 (need redo)
2131	Greedy	done 5.11 (need redo)
621		done 5.14 (need redo)
226	Tree
110
543	Tree
437
74	BinarySearch
33
108	BinarySearchTree
230
173
994	Graph/BFS/DFS
417
210	Graph/BFS/DFS
815
198	DynamicProgramming
322
416	DynamicProgramming
152
3	SlidingWindow/TwoPointer
16
76
100	Tree
101
199
232	Design
155
208
57	Interval
56
735	Stack
227
547	UnionFind
947
39	BruteForce/Backtracking
46

ugh honestly i lost interest so fast, i can only retain interest in reversing strings for so long, i’d much rather be like … doing fun cool projects … T____T but if it’s for the $$$ well it’s not the worst thing to have to do for the $$$ i guess

update 21 April 2023:

Okay, their site design is a little obnoxious sadly (but they are giving me resources for free sooo beggars/choosers)

I was having issue typing in the class “pt-0.5” but fortunately Firefox has a “copy CSS selector” which showed me I can use backslashes to escape the “.” in the class name.

using the stylus extension for firefox (it’s a recommended plugin so I felt somewhat better about installing this plugin) we can select the classes and set them to “display:none” in order to hide them.

div.css-h5fkc8 {
    display: none; /* list of study plans */
}
div.-mr-2 {
    display: none; /* links to weekly contests */
}
div.mt-4.pt-0\.5:nth-child(3){ /* list of companies */
    display: none;
}