u/Any-Cardiologist1641

I joined the reddit just few weeks ago. And after 1 week i posted on reddit , and my thinking was posting in multiple communities in a single go give my post high reach.
But this idea backfired on me and my post was removed by reddit.
Lesson1: On that day i learned posting in multiple communities does not mean more reach, you should be more practical.

Then again after a week i posted another post on reddit and this i posted in 1 community only but i thought i should make the post more structured to make my point more clear to the reddit users so i took help of chatgpt . And that made things more worse than anything.
Although the points which i made in post was genuine.

Lesson2: I learned people do not care about structure/clean writing they care if you sound real or not.

Still learning honestly.

But publicly getting downvoted was probably a good lesson 😂

Today , I was reviewing one of Student's Interview preparation progress and noticed something very interesting.

The Student has attempted 29 MockTests.
Failed 19 out of them.

At first glance, it sounds very terrible

But when i looked deeper performance trends, the story looked completely different.

Early Tests progress was around 0-20%

Then Gradually:

• Multiple 70% scores started appearing
• focus and consistency improved alot
• medium level problem attempts increased
• One Skill area (Excel) became extremely strong

performance stamina became more stable over time

It made me realise:
Lot of students are working hard for placements.
but they actually have no system to understand whether they are improving or not.

Most students preparation is actually:

• Random DSA Questions
• Random SQL Questions
• Random Youtube Playlists

Students tracks how many questions they have solved but not:

• Consistency
• weak areas
• pressure handling
• topic retention
• interview readiness
• why they fail repeatedly in certain sections/areas

I honestly think this is why many students feel stuck even after months of preparation, because efforts are visible and progress is not.

Curious to know if others also feels the same:

• Do you guys track you progress in structured way
• Or is most interview prep still trial-an-error

For the last week, I have been spending a lot of time on reddit reading career posts from students, laid off engineers, freshers and people trying to switch jobs.

And honestly , after reading so many posts, one thing hit me:

Most people are not failing because they are not good at coding.

Some people had solved 100's of LeetCode questions.
Some had good projects.
Some even had 3-5 years of experience.

But still they felt stuck, underprepared, anxious or completely lost.

The common pattern I noticed was :
People are preparing a lot but they are preparing blindly.

They didn't know :

• where they are weak
• why they kept failing interviews
• whether their problem was DSA, communication, confidence , optimisation or simply burnout.

And comparison made it more worse.

Every day people see:

• Got FAANG offer
• 6L-10L package
• knight on leetCode

Meanwhile they are silently struggling with layoffs, inconsistency, family pressure, burnout and self doubt.

Honestly, I think interview preparation has become more psychological than technical now.

The people improving consistently are usually not the smartest ones.
They are the ones who prepare with structure, track their mistakes , and stay consistent without comparing themselves every day.

Curious to know if others here also feel the same.

For the last week, I have been spending a lot of time on reddit reading career posts from students, laid off engineers, freshers and people trying to switch jobs.

And honestly , after reading so many posts, one thing hit me:

Most people are not failing because they are not good at coding.

Some people had solved 100's of LeetCode questions.
Some had good projects.
Some even had 3-5 years of experience.

But still they felt stuck, underprepared, anxious or completely lost.

The common pattern I noticed was :
People are preparing a lot but they are preparing blindly.

They didn't know :

• where they are weak
• why they kept failing interviews
• whether their problem was DSA, communication, confidence , optimisation or simply burnout.

And comparison made it more worse.

Every day people see:

• Got FAANG offer
• 6L-10L package
• knight on leetCode

Meanwhile they are silently struggling with layoffs, inconsistency, family pressure, burnout and self doubt.

Honestly, I think interview preparation has become more psychological than technical now.

The people improving consistently are usually not the smartest ones.
They are the ones who prepare with structure, track their mistakes , and stay consistent without comparing themselves every day.

Curious to know if others here also feel the same.

For the last week, I have been spending a lot of time on reddit reading career posts from students, laid off engineers, freshers and people trying to switch jobs.

And honestly , after reading so many posts, one thing hit me:

Most people are not failing because they are not good at coding.

Some people had solved 100's of LeetCode questions.
Some had good projects.
Some even had 3-5 years of experience.

But still they felt stuck, underprepared, anxious or completely lost.

The common pattern I noticed was :
People are preparing a lot but they are preparing blindly.

They didn't know :

• where they are weak
• why they kept failing interviews
• whether their problem was DSA, communication, confidence , optimisation or simply burnout.

And comparison made it more worse.

Every day people see:

• Got FAANG offer
• 6L-10L package
• knight on leetCode

Meanwhile they are silently struggling with layoffs, inconsistency, family pressure, burnout and self doubt.

Honestly, I think interview preparation has become more psychological than technical now.

The people improving consistently are usually not the smartest ones.
They are the ones who prepare with structure, track their mistakes , and stay consistent without comparing themselves every day.

Curious to know if others here also feel the same.