Leetcode contest 99 study

Sept. 6, 2018

Introduction

It is the first time I spent over two hours to study Leetcode 99 contest. I spent time to go over the players with score 14, ranking after 400.

Players 

I like to find some players as role models. And then I decided to look into one of contests, and see who are those players.

Now it is 10:42 PM. I like to find very good role model to demonstrate good skills in reasoning and competitive skills in contests.

lixx2100

I did look at contest winner, here is the discussion I like to read. The user's profile is here, who works for Facebook. Reputation is 1581. The contest winning page is here.

Bowen Yu - ICPC coach, NYU ph.d.

http://bowenyu.me/interests.html

Microsoft
https://leetcode.com/leoncheng/

Cui Aoxiao
Youtube video about contest.

Google search: leetcode cuiaoxiang
Here is my favorite discussion about contest. Contest 87, here is the discuss.

Microsoft
Profile is here. High ranking in contest. Ranking no. 2 of contest 99. Here is the link. Here is the linkedin.

Anonymous

Hardworking Googler - solved over 800 algorithms. Here is the profile.

Actionable Items

Another young graduate student works very hard, solve over 800 algorithms on Leetcode.com. And also the player also plays contests. Then the player gets the job from Google. Here is the profile.

I did look up contest 99 top 500 players. Here is the link. I need to come out the idea of a few factors: positions, years of experience, solved algorithm, contest performance, submissions last year, and then comparison to the young graduate, new Googler.

Here is one player I studied, rank 410 of contest 99.

I spent time from 9:03 PM to 11:48 PM. I think that it will help me work hard on Leetcode and get more understanding about the community.