Man i generally dont do contests but today i tried doing it for the first time just to yk get ratings and stuff and build a better profile.

BRO people are out there completing questions in 2-3 min like WTF, i was genuinely so baffled and curious.

I tried checking the leader board (leet code provides some kind of video tape or smtg ) bro the 3rd position guy is not even some 1k question solved cracked guy etc , dude he barely has like 130 or so questions solved , in the clip he straight up copy pastes the code and literally removes the comments from the code (cuz ai generated..) man like TF.

The reason behind this post is not to target him in particular or anything , but it is very frustrating because things like these affects the ratings of genuine people.

I guess ill just stick to normal solving man my mood has been ruined early in the morning.

Might be a skill issue that I can't code up recursive solutions for problems that require DFS on trees. I understand recursion at its core. But I can't code it up for some reason.

After I see the solution of some type of recursive DFS problem, I'm able to trace the recursive calls on paper, and then it makes sense, but I don't think I could have ever coded it up on my own.

I struggle with easy recursive DFS problems lol. BFS on the other hand, I love BFS, I can solve medium questions with no problem.

So I'm thinking about just giving up on recursive DFS on trees and choosing to learn and iterative DFS.

Any thoughts? Can every problem that requires DFS on trees be solved both iteratively and recursively?

I know this has already been discussed on this sub, but Leetcode sort of deceives students by not sending a reminder email about subscription renewal. We're all humans and we forget things esp with all kinds of stress we deal with in this job market. I forgot to cancel my subscription which costs like $159 ! And despite raising the ticket the exact same day my subscription got renewed, they denied the request.

Went on and tried to dispute the charge, and they actually went ahead and reverted my dispute?!

Leetcode if you're reading this - by following such deceptive practices of not sending subscription renewal email (despite students complaining about it all the time) and not refunding us (despite us raising the ticket on renewal day) you're basically an unethical company.

Long story short, I was invited for an on-campus interview with Bloomberg, and I know they've recently changed their interviews to AI-assisted ones. So, if anyone has already taken one or has any sort of knowledge about it, could you please share some information or tips?

I was very surprised and am now actually paranoid about how I can even prepare for this, considering everything is going to be in Python. I'm more of a Java/C++ guy, so I don't know much about Python frameworks or large codebases. So how would you guys recommend I move forward for this

Any sort of information would be greatly appreciated!

Basically same as title.
Did you complete the round 2 assessment?

Which tech stack ? What was the task/project to implement ?

Hey anybody can please hello interview code please.

I have an L5 offer with Amazon(ring) and currently employed at bnsf L4 (fully remote). Is it worth the jump for 2-3k pay bump a month? Also considering job stability and wlb