Graduating from Leetcode

What is LeetCode.com?

It’s a website where people–mostly software engineers–practice their coding skills. It’s pretty similar to sites like HackerRank & Topcoder which will rank your code written for a particular problem against the ones submitted by other users

People who use them

Leetcode gets primarily used for two use cases:

• Solve interesting data structure problems
• Prepare and practice for coding interviews 🤔

Purpose of this post

I never had a clear understanding when it comes to data structures and algorithms, so being a software engineer for the last 12 years, I thought it’s not a bad idea to at least start now. So as of Dec 2019, I became a premium member in Leetcode and committed myself to get as much value out of 150$ that I spent on the membership fees. Leetcode is like an ocean; it has closer to 2000+ questions, which keeps growing day by day.

In fact, this was my exact reaction when I open the website for the first time after looking at the number of questions and categories it had