🎯 Key Resources

I have spent 4+ yrs as an SDE across two different top PBCs, and here’s what I’ve learned the hard way 👇 | Ayushi Sharma

📚 Core Learning Resources

• [ ] [ ] Books:
  • Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle McDowell
  • System Design Interview by Alex Xu
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications# 🎯 FAANGM & Remote Software Engineering Interview Roadmap (Adnan) – 180 Days Daily Plan with NeetCode 150 Links (Complete)

✅ Phase 1: DSA Mastery (Days 1–90)

Goal: Build a rock-solid foundation in Data Structures and Algorithms

📅 Days 1–7: Arrays & Hashing

• [ ] Day 1: Array basics – LC 1 Two Sum, LC 217 Contains Duplicate
  • 📚 Resources: NeetCode Arrays Tutorial, GeeksforGeeks Arrays
• [ ] Day 2: Hash maps – LC 242 Valid Anagram, LC 49 Group Anagrams
  • 📚 Resources: NeetCode HashMap Tutorial, Python Dict Documentation
• [ ] Day 3: Array manipulation – LC 238 Product of Array Except Self, LC 36 Valid Sudoku
  • 📚 Resources: Array Manipulation Techniques, Prefix Sum Tutorial
• [ ] Day 4: Prefix sums – LC 560 Subarray Sum Equals K, LC 128 Longest Consecutive Sequence
  • 📚 Resources: Prefix Sum Complete Guide, NeetCode Prefix Sum
• [ ] Day 5: Two pointers intro – LC 167 Two Sum II, LC 125 Valid Palindrome
  • 📚 Resources: Two Pointers Technique, NeetCode Two Pointers
• [ ] Day 6: Array practice marathon (5 problems from NeetCode 150)
  • 📚 Resources: LeetCode Arrays Tag, NeetCode 150 Roadmap
• [ ] Day 7: Weekly review + mock interview
  • 📚 Resources: Pramp Mock Interviews, InterviewBit Mock

📅 Days 8–14: Linked Lists

• [ ] Day 8: Linked list basics – LC 206 Reverse Linked List, LC 21 Merge Two Sorted Lists
  • 📚 Resources: NeetCode Linked List Tutorial, Visualizing Linked Lists, GeeksforGeeks Linked List
• [ ] Day 9: Fast/slow pointers – LC 141 Linked List Cycle, LC 876 Middle of the Linked List
  • 📚 Resources: Floyd's Cycle Detection Algorithm, NeetCode Two Pointers LL
• [ ] Day 10: Linked list manipulation – LC 143 Reorder List, LC 19 Remove Nth Node From End
  • 📚 Resources: Linked List Manipulation Patterns, NeetCode Reorder List
• [ ] Day 11: Merge operations – LC 23 Merge k Sorted Lists, LC 148 Sort List
  • 📚 Resources: Merge Sort on Linked List, Divide and Conquer Approach