I’ve just finished all my exams for my junior year and I have a week to relax before I begin my last summer internship. This is my last internship because in the fall, I’ll begin applying for full time software engineering positions.
I started this repository to keep track of all the practice problems I’ve done during my prior interview prep. Now with the most important interviews coming up, I have to kick this up a notch. My goals for this summer is to:
- Practice algorithms for an hour a day, at least 6 days a week.
- Create a community around this to hold each other accountable.
The first goal is pretty simple, but hard to follow through. The idea is to make it a mock interview so I should strive for 2 complete problems in that hour. My friend and I will commit all our daily problems to the repository. We started yesterday with problems 8.1 and 8.2 from the EPI book.
The second goal is bit more difficult. I’ll keep track of the progress by using GitHub stars as a measure. Some ways of contributing are pull requests with new problems, solutions, or just test cases. Another way is to use the issue tracking to post problems that you would like me to solve. So far, I’ve made one issue regarding a graph problem that interests me.
I’ve read plenty of success stories on r/cscareerquestions where people commit a bit of time daily over a span of months and were able to go from nothing to a job at Google or Facebook. I’d like to make this into my own success story and invite anyone to join me!
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