Crack FAANG - Pratham Kohli

Step 1: Clarity and Networking

📌  Create an excel with the list of all companies you want to apply to and work for

📌 Add links of career pages of these companies in excel to keep track of openings

📌 Start sending out invites to people from these companies on LinkedIn

📌 Send at least 10 requests per day to people from one company including developers, recruiters and Hiring Managers.

📌 This will help in getting referrals later

Step 2: 0 to 100 in DSA

📌 Focus on brushing up your DSA skills

📌 Start with Basic Data structures:

• Arrays, Stack, Queue, Linked List, Heap
• Trees, Graphs

📌 Then Focus on Algorithms:

• Recursion, Backtracking
• Greedy Algorithm
• Dynamic Programming
• Two Pointer

📌 Tip:

• Start Timing yourself and try to solve a Medium question in 20 minutes

📌 Resources

• Blind 75
• Neetcode.io
• InterviewBit

Step 3: Focus on System Design - LLD

Low Level Design

📌 First focus on understanding different Design Patterns like:

• Singleton
• Factory
• Observer

📌 Understand S.O.L.I.D. principles

📌 Understand UML Diagrams like

• Use case diagram
• Class Diagram
• Sequence Diagram

📌 Now prepare on how to break down a system in Interview from scratch

• How to identify Requirements
• How to identify entities
• How to identify use cases
• How to identify boundary if system

📌 Resources:

• Souymajit Bhattacharya’s LLD playlist
• Shreyansh LLD playlist
• Head First Design Patterns

Step 4 : Focus on System Design - HLD

High Level Design

📌 Focus on Basic Terminologies like:

• CAP Theorem, Load balancing,
• Scaling (Horizontal, Vertical)
• Logging, Consistent Hashing
• Sharding

📌 Focus on Building blocks of Systems:

• Message queues like Kafka
• Databases and it’s types : SQL,No-SQL
• Publisher and Subscriber Models

📌 Next Practice Back of the envelope calculations

📌 Learn how to design a system end to end

📌 Resources:

• System Design Interview by Alex Xu’s Vol 1, Vol 2
• Youtube Playlist by Exponent

Step 5 : Start Applying

📌 Start applying through all mediums that you can

• Apply directly on careers website
• Apply via Referrals ( through the network that we built in the 1st step)
• Keep a track of career pages in the same excel where you list down all companies initially (in the 1st step)

📌 This process can take time for the recruiter to get back to you, but don’t lose hope and keep applying!

Step 6 Mock Interviews and Revision

It is time to give Mock Interviews to get the real feel of the interview

📌 Resources for Free Mock Interviews:

• Pramp
• Interviewing.io

📌 Revision:

• It is easy to forget all the work that you did
• Try to solve at least 1 DSA question everyday (Leetcode daily question)
• Revise all questions you were unable to do on a weekly basis
• Try to solve 1 LLD and 1 HLD question by yourself everyday!

Ques: Want all the resources and roadmaps at one place ?

Then checkout this 100+ page guide I created with a proper roadmap and all the resources that you will need!

Note: This guide is Only for Working Professionals Looking to SWITCH, NOT for Students!

Link: https://topmate.io/prathamkohli/883051

Note : A lot more exciting content is scheduled to come on Instagram.

We will dive deep into each resource for DSA, LLD, HLD, Resume Preparation and a lot more to make you job ready by the end of 2024!

Do stay tuned on Instagram at : @prathamkohliyt