I never encountered any single question on CodeChef, Codeforces, AtCoder, Spoj, or any other competitive coding platform.

At the end of my graduation year, I was having some family problems (health and financial) and decided to get a job in some big MNCs with a higher salary to help my family. But from the beginning of my childhood, I was always below average.

During those days, I was very much depressed and didn't know what to do, I was unable to calculate prime numbers, traverse a tree and even not able to find nth Fibonacci number, and even worse, writing a code in any programming language to find the sum of first N natural numbers, takes more than 15 minutes to think and code.

Every friend suggested me to go and start solving questions on Codeforces, CodeChef, AtCoder, etc. and said soon you will achieve your target, but my only question from them was "How much time will it take ?", "How many questions I had to solve ?", "In what manner (or sequence), I had to solve ?". Their reply was, "We are solving questions from last 2 years, but still doesn't have any confidence, whether we can crack DSA round for any big MNC"?

Suddenly, campus placements got started. The first MNC came in my college, and I was not shortlisted because my online assessment wasn't cleared. However, I was very curious about the DSA interview round questions. So, I heard the coding questions that were asked during the interview outside a cafeteria were talked about "Questions were very hard.", "That was a hard or medium problem on Leetcode.", "Interviewer asked the same question, that was available on Leetcode.", the only thing that strike to my mind was, What is LEETCODE?

After googling, I found different articles about Leetcode "How Leetcode helped me to achieve my dream company?" , "How to use Leetcode effectively?" ,etc., and from there onwards on 3rd November 2020, my journey begins to solve questions everyday on Leetcode.

Now, I am currently holding 4 offers for Software Engineer role.

On December 2020, I found about "Monthly Leetcode Challenge" and what fascinated me a lot was Leetcode T-shirt, and now on 25th October 2021, I finally achieved my target and ordered my T-Shirt.

This is my journey. Thank you so much for giving your time.

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Update Aug, 2022
I got an offer for SDE-1 @ Amazon, Bangalore. Thanks for all the support to this post.