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Hey, I'm software engineer at Microsoft, with 8+ years of experience. Here we are talking about F(M)AANG big tech interviews: leetcode, system design and corpo life.

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some motherfucker, broke it😒
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There is time during the year, when I'm getting Vlad Ten's vibe, where I need to do something, produce content, work etc, BUT, I have really huge urge to understand how something works.

I always was a guy who cares only about practical stuff. Then usually I'm starting go deeper with theoretical part and cover all the gaps. This is just how I work.

Last 3 days it was electricity. Cause I have no idea why, I didn't understand how it works, and with that I cannot go deep to learn CPUs.
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I will be posting some extremely magical stuff for me, cause yeah, in terms of physics knowledge I'm dumb as stump xD
SO. I was wandering, how our cities are getting the electricity, literally what should happen for me to have lights in my office, under the hood.

Did you fucking know that all electric stations do is just spinning magnets around wires (or vice versa)? That's it.

Turned out that magnet just disturb electrons in wire which is enough to do current. By the way, magnet stays magnet forever, so it is some sort of "inifinite" thing, except you need some work to spin them around.

Ofc in reality it is a bit more complicated, but the general principle is just wiggle magnet, near the wires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb3iN4m9Bik
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Don't worry, this shit is temporary, once I will encounter the place where science "does not know" how some shit works I will cool down and we gonna again proceed with our system design, Snowflake, relocation, etc :D
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I just want a bit of statistics around people who are interested/are in software engineering:
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Did you know that electricity that you use daily is just bouncing magnet near wires here and there?
Anonymous Poll
40%
yes
46%
no
14%
see answer
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Amazing problem. You know I love graph problems and this is exactly graph problem. Not very hard.

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-path-with-edge-reversals/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-01-27

#daily #medium
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Daily (172 day streak)

Hard shit. Just skip it, don't waste time. But if you want I will provide an explanation below

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-path-with-teleportations/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-01-28

#daily #hard
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Oo people, today is amazing leetcode dailt. Go for it
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I like these meeting rooms, they give me some sort of flashback
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Daily (173 day streak)

Amazing problem, for graphs, and I learned new algorithm today.

https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-to-convert-string-i/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-01-29

#daily #medium
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Daily (174 day streak)

Today daily is πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€. Probably the hardest I have ever seen and has the most mixing concepts/patterns.

The official solution in Editorial is 100+ lines, wtf. Skip it, don't do it.

#daily #hard
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Next days I will drop my old articles (published in habr) about interview at Microsoft (offer), and Aws (reject) in 2021

I was crazy and stupid enough to reveal the questions they were asking, and answers πŸ˜… MS folks saw that and then my manager in Microsoft told me to remove answers from article at least. I don’t do that anymore, but it was funny.

I mean they didnt sign NDA back then.
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Daily (175 day streak)

Feels amazing, especially after yesterday's crazy trie+dijkstra+dp problem, slight recall for binary search, but can be solved directly as well.

https://leetcode.com/problems/find-smallest-letter-greater-than-target/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-01-31

#daily #easy
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My friend has shared nice video about probabilities (Bayes Theorem)

Also me with lowest grade in probability & statistics in UNI:
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Sooooooooooo, as promised.

It was way back in 2021, it was the time I started doing Leetcode and the time dream FAANG company offer was only unreal dream

This one is about AWS interview experience. There are actually questions I was asked that time.

https://live.andreyka26.com/interview-experience-at-aws-in-2021

#bigtech
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Daily (177 day streak)

Today is bullshit problem. I propose you to solve similar hard question which is 1000% easier to understand and more useful to solve. The link to alternative hard task that we are going to solve in the comments.

For the daily - just copy paste from some publicly available solution

https://leetcode.com/problems/divide-an-array-into-subarrays-with-minimum-cost-ii/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-02-02

#daily #hard
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