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I used to think consistency in coding meant having perfect routines and motivation every single day. But the last 50+ days taught me something completely different.

Some days I solved problems with full focus. Some days I barely had the energy to open my laptop.

Between college, family functions, travel, and sick days, the goal became very simple: **Solve just one problem.**

Not for streaks. Not for productivity. Just to keep the habit alive.

Slowly, I stopped seeing DSA problems as random questions and started recognizing the patterns underneath them. That’s when problem solving actually became interesting to me.

I recently reached the 50 Days Badge on LeetCode! I'm still learning and still improving, but realizing that "consistency doesn't mean perfection" completely changed my mindset.

For anyone else juggling college or life while trying to learn—just focus on doing that one small thing every day. It adds up.

I’ve been learning Data Structures & Algorithms seriously for around 1.5 years now and have solved 800+ problems while preparing for MAANG-level interviews.
Now I’m planning to revise all the important topics again from scratch

Instead of revising alone, I thought it would be more productive to teach people who are genuinely interested and consistent.

I'm currently studying DSA one concept at a time and there hasn't been a topic that's confusing me as much as Greedy. I know the basic approach of greedy, pick the optimal decision at the present, but it's soooo confusing especially problems like Jump Game or Gas Station.

Does anyone have any advice on how to tackle Greedy problems and how to recognize?

Hey everyone

Can anyone with LeetCode Premium please share the interview questions that have been asked at Twilio so far?

Thanks

Hey guys are any of you getting an internal server error while accessing questions? I could login, see the question list but once I click on it , there's an 'oops. internal server error '. 'please try again later'.

Update: It's working again guys

I tried to find some relevant topics and questions on leetcode for my quant/sde intern prep but can not find a good sheet. Can someone help ??

Hello everyone,

My account (concl) was just hit with a contest ban on Weekly Contest 501. I've been on LeetCode for over 4 years with a 2400+ peak rating, and I'm a competitive programmer who competed at the 2026 ICPC North American Championship (NAC).

I opened a support request explaining the situation transparently, but it was just closed/denied with a generic automated template with no reason given.

So what happened was for problem 4, I needed to implement all pairs shortest paths, and to save time, I used publicly available code from GeeksForGeeks (their material is pretty bad, honestly shouldn't have used it in the first place). For reference, my submission can be found here, and the code I used can be found here. I will note that I was a bit stupid in that I did not have to use this algorithm as I hallucinated thinking that running Dijkstra's on every vertex would be too slow.

I'm not sure exactly what got me banned from WC 501, but it seems like I may have been flagged for plagiarism for having similar code as other contestants since there could be multiple people that used this public template.

I didn't collaborate with anyone, use Discord cheating groups, or use LLMs or any other clanker assistance. I definitely have the technical capability to write this code, I just used a public template for a standard utility sub-component, which is explicitly allowed on other CP platforms like Codeforces. I'm currently at rank 26603 (you can find it here) if anyone wants to check my code replay.

Does anyone know how to escalate past an automated support agent to get an actual LeetCode admin to look at my case?

Thanks for any help or visibility.

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming 4-round Amazon interview for SDE 1 in the US and wanted to ask if anyone who has already gone through the process could share their experience.

Thank you!

For people with 1–1.5 YOE, are you guys getting callbacks?

I’m keeping my ATS score >85, tailoring my resume for JDs, and applying consistently, but barely getting responses. Does it mostly come down to luck?

Starting to feel burnt out and worried I’ll lose motivation if this keeps going for too long.

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Curious to know if anyone passed their Google FDE (preferably L3/L4) interview recently and got an offer. What was the feedback like and what do you think was the deciding factor in their judgement.

Had my Google 2026 SWE New Grad onsite Round 2 interview about 3 weeks ago. I followed up last week and the recruiter said they’re still reviewing interview feedback and going through “final reviews and approvals,” and that nothing else is needed from my side for now.

I’m a bit confused because I haven’t had any visa check, team match, or other updates yet. From what I’ve seen, “final approvals” usually happens after team match, so I’m not sure how to interpret this.

Questions:

1. What does “final reviews and approvals” usually mean at this stage?
2. Is this generally a good sign, bad sign, or neutral?
3. The recruiter mentioned “appreciate your continued patience while we wrap up this process”. Does this imply I should expect a decision soon?

Would appreciate any insights from people who’ve been through Google new grad recruiting recently.

I haven’t been able to practice leetcode for the last 3 days since I can’t login. The page is stuck loading forever.
Anyone has any tips on this?

Some days, like today, I just do not want to do LeetCode. How do you force yourself to stay consistent when you have zero motivation? I really want to build the habit and do it regularly, but some days my brain completely checks out.

Would love advice from the people who’ve managed to stay disciplined with it.... what actually helped you keep going?

The ratings haven't updated yet.

On a random day, I was crying,I could solve only easy problems , but then divine ascension happens and medium problems becomes very easy ,you take 20 minutes to solve it . Hard topics become easy .This is crazy .this just happens randomly .is it just me or something like that happens to you too?

I see a lot of advice related to the Karat round for Palantir, but it looks like its being done on a hackerrank codepad... what sort of problems should I brush up on?

Im just doing easy and medium question, my code is extremely long going through loops within in loops, but every time i look at solution online, it's way better optimized and much smaller than mine, I feel like im brute forcing for the solution rather than providing a much more valuable code

Can someone recommend me any course that's free, which familiarizes me more with coding structures

Hey everyone, looking for some perspective on navigating an Amazon to Google move.

I’m currently an SDE2 at Amazon in Canada. I recently passed my Google interviews and am in the team-matching phase, but they downleveled me to L3.
Here is my dilemma:

The Downlevel: Amazon SDE2 usually maps closer to Google L4. Taking L3 means a title reset and having to grind for promo again.

Compensation: I’m expecting the L3 offer to just match my current pay—I doubt they will go higher.

The Culture Nuance: This is where I'm torn. My current manager is actually great and my specific team isn't a pressure cooker at all. However, the macro-level Amazon culture is grating on me. The strict 6-month evaluation cycles, the looming threat of PIPs/layoffs, and the current top-down push to artificially shoehorn "AI" into our deliverables just to survive evals is exhausting. Google seems like a much safer, more stable environment long-term.

Has anyone given up a good micro-environment at Amazon for the macro-stability of Google, even with a title hit? Was the WLB and peace of mind worth the career reset, or did you regret leaving a good manager?
Any advice is appreciated!