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SDE interviews: the 6-week plan seniors used

Rohan Mehta · IIT Kharagpur '24 · SDE8 min readSign up

Most of us started too late on system basics and too early on hard DP. Here is the order that worked for our batch.

Weeks 1–2: arrays, strings, hashing and two pointers until medium problems take under 25 minutes.

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