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

Oo people, today is amazing leetcode dailt. Go for it

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

Daily (174 day streak)

Today daily is 💀💀💀. 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

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 😅 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.

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

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

Also me with lowest grade in probability & statistics in UNI:

Daily (176 day streak)

Today we have again easy problem. So go and collect the coin

https://leetcode.com/problems/divide-an-array-into-subarrays-with-minimum-cost-i/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-02-01


#daily #easy

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

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

Does anyone else find talking to Cursor for 2 hours more exhausting and less enjoyable than spending 2 hours building their own understanding from documentation and sandboxing?

I mean, maybe it is only me, but it feels extremely bad, when you don't build mental model of what is done while progressing. It is a bit like you are blind, and are not doing much (like being a PM: you were in the meets, managing stuff, but actually you didn't build anything).

Okay, respect Malwarebytes. At Microsoft I would wait for few months probably xD

Within an hour I got a reply about complaint that they marked my website as riskware.

Daily (178 day streak)

I wouldn't say it is easy easy. It just just easy, but needs a bit of effort.

https://leetcode.com/problems/trionic-array-i/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2026-02-03

#daily #easy

Decided:
1. Microsoft
2. Ticketmaster + video

Just 1 month passed since I left, wtf Microsoft, why do you make me poor?

Fuck. I don't like "tomorrow" already

Instead, as it is just translation of article that I wrote in 2021 - here we are, as promised:

https://live.andreyka26.com/how-i-got-offer-from-microsoft-in-2021

#bigtech

May I ask to leave random comment? I want to test github comments integration (introduced half a year ago, but no one ever left comments, maybe it is working only for me idk)

You can leave clown emoji - I will delete them any way :-)