Last school quarter coming to a close, I want to get a step ahead of everyone else and start applying for new grad or any SDE position. Having interviewed before, I feel pretty good about the behavioral round. I have a good intro, a good reason why I chose the company and a good set of “tell me a time when…”, at least more so now with an internship under my belt, that I can use STAR format to answer. The next few rounds I would say are a challenge. I am fairly comfortable iterating through a list, parsing a dictionary and finding min and max. I have a great understanding of post, inorder, pre tree traversal. I can implement BFS and DFS for graph theory problems. But at the end of the whenever I know that there is another person/or more in front of me, looking and secretly judging my logic or implementation, there always is a little bit of brain freezing happening in on my end. I am having a bunch of virtual coding rounds but the feeling of being rushed to implement something, that is most likely never gonna be used in real life scenario, will never go away. I am hoping that from the practice problems that I do during my own time, I can be lucky enough to receive those so that I can pretend to analyze the problem and deep down knowing how to solve it from the get go.
