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Grokking the Coding Interview
Don’t Just LeetCode; Follow the Coding Patterns Instead
What if you don’t like to practice 100s of coding questions before the interview?

Coding Interviews are getting harder. To prepare for coding interviews, you will need weeks, if not months of preparation.
No one likes spending that much time preparing for the coding interviews. So is there a smarter solution?
First, let’s look at the problem.
Anyone preparing for coding interviews definitely knows LeetCode. It is probably the biggest online repository for coding interview questions. Let’s take a look at what problems people face when using LeetCode.
Problems with LeetCode
There are around 3k problems in LeetCode. The biggest challenge with LeetCode is its lack of organization; it has a huge set of coding problems, and you are not sure where to start or what to focus on.
One wonders, is there an adequate number of questions one should go through to consider themselves prepared for the coding interview?
I would love to see a streamlined process that guides me and teaches me enough algorithmic techniques to feel confident for the…