Julia's coding blog - Practice makes perfect

From January 2015, she started to practice leetcode questions; she trains herself to stay focus, develops "muscle" memory when she practices those questions one by one. 2015年初, Julia开始参与做Leetcode, 开通自己第一个博客. 刷Leet code的题目, 她看了很多的代码, 每个人那学一点, 也开通Github, 发表自己的代码, 尝试写自己的一些体会. She learns from her favorite sports – tennis, 10,000 serves practice builds up good memory for a great serve. Just keep going. Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

Sunday, March 24, 2019

How to read my Leetcode profile?

March 24, 2019

Introduction

It is my personal finance research. As a matter of fact, Amazon Vancouver finds candidates from China, Latin America since they search talents globally. I stayed in USA from 1996 to 2010, I stayed in Canada from 2010 to 2019. I also have to learn how to push myself by working with talents all over the world. Today I like to work on a short research how to read my Leetcode profile?

My Leetcode profile

Here is my leetcode profile on March 24, 2019.

I like to define the time line 5 spots:

May 2018 - Time line 1,
July 2018 - Time line 2
August 2018 - Time line 3
November 2018 - Time line 4
March 2019 - Time line 5

I like to write a few things for each time line, how I advance myself to next level, change target, analyze my own career and thinking process, Amazon leadership principle etc.

May 2018 - Time line 1

I finally decided to take risk and take one week vacation to SJTU 30 years reunion in Shanghai. I booked the flight and in the airport I got a message from LinkedIn.com from one Amazon recruiter.

Here is the blog. I had to book a phone screen after the vacation. I did book a phone screen in May and I passed the phone screen. I have two weeks to prepare an onsite in June in the city of Seattle. I hired a coach from Tsinghua university, a young graduate student met on pramp.com in January 2018. He solved over 500 algorithms, his ranking is around 5000.

I was told to work on easy level algorithms on leetcode.com. But I believe that I should learn how to solve hard level algorithms only. Coach told me a few times, work on easy level algorithms. I did not have time to work on easy level algorithms, two weeks preparation, full time job.

So the fact is that I only solved 120 algorithms from January 2015 to May 2018. And also I did not organize, write discussion panel or document the practice very well. So there is a lot of blank before May 2018.

June 2018 - Time line 2

After I went to Amazon onsite, I had a facebook phone screen set up before August 1. I continued to work on Leetcode easy level algorithms.

November 2018 - Time line 3

I have to wait another two years before I can apply Amazon. I decided to work on personal finance research. I like to do some research to solve real problems in my life. It is the first time I chose to work on personal finance research, it is painful experience since I reveal the real life of my personal finance.

March 2019 - Time line 4

I worked hundreds of hours on personal finance in holiday one week break last week of December 2018. I chose to continue to study personal finance. I only play Leetcode weekly contest.