Background: 2 YOE as Java Backend Developer in India
Current Status: Working full time as SSE
Location: Noida
Graduation: Integrated course in Mechanical Engineering

Note: Things will not happen overnight or in a month. Keep making mistakes but avoid repeating them. Make coding a habit. Learn new things and keep updating your resume.

Offers:

• Infoedge(Naukri dot com) as SSE
• Xiaomi as SE
• Carwale as as SDE-I
• Saras Analytics as SE-I
• Phenom people as SDE-I
• HashedIN as SE-II

Pay range - 10 LPA to 20 LPA

Leetcode stats:

• EASY - 124
• MEDIUM - 113
• HARD - 4
• Contest Rating - 120,011

Rejection - 15+

Duration - 85 days (equal to my notice period)

Things I did

• After every interview i analysed what i said
• I wrote down every new question i get asked
• Tried to solve atleast one question daily
• Regularly updated my resume and my profile in different job sites
• I always asked for a feedback from the interviewer
• I applied to atleast 10 jobs posted across different sites
• I was always ontime for every interview
• I did not include anything useless in my CV (I haven't done any major projects so it was just one page)

Things that were not in my favor

• No meaningful/relevant project
• No development experience
• Being a mechanical engineer in the IT field
• One entire year wasted due to covid
• I was working in service based company where I wasn't learning anything
• Had literally no idea about the DS/Algo, time and space complexity before June of last year.

Thanks to discussion section of Leetcode and CTCI I was able to take my first step in coding.

I hated my last job so much that it helped me in getting over all my personal and emotional road blocks.

Happy Leetcoding!