Cracking the coding interview practically in 125 days!

Writing a success story always feels good, but this one I am starting as I begin practicing. This blog is not just about saying "Hey, you have to practice hard," but rather it's like "Practice with me."

THE PLAN IS IN MOTION! As MS Dhoni mentions, success is merely a by-product, so the emphasis should be on the process. On this beautiful morning, with apples on the table, I am beginning this discipline today (27-02-2025).

Yes, I am starting with 25 days of Foundational Training. I am going to focus on data structure topics, ML systems & C++

Particularly in data structures - Tree (Binary trees, BST), Graphs (Algo, Topological sort, Connected Components), Two Pointers, Sorting (Quick, Merge, Heap), Priority Queues, Patterns (K-way merge, Top K elements), DP(Recursion, Backtracking, DP), LinkedList, stack & Queue.

ML System Design - LLama Architecture, VLM model finetuning, RAG architecture, MLIR tutorials

C++ - Advanced OOP techniques

Day 1:

Planning for 1.5 - hrs HEAP theory

1 Easy Array problem: Merge k Sorted Lists - LeetCode

1 medium Heap problem: Kth Largest Element in an Array - LeetCode

ML sys Design - LLama Explained - 30 mins - Understanding the Architecture Behind LLAMA Model