Hi there! 👋
Long time no see - sorry, I was in the middle of moving. ✈️
But that’s not what this post about!

Over the past year, I've been regularly helping people prepare for Big Tech / FAANG interviews.
And now I feel ready to help even more. 🛁

If you're a Software Engineer (backend / full-stack / ML) aiming to break into Big Tech / FAANG or relocate to Europe - but feel stuck - know that you're not alone. 👋

I've gone through interviews with Google, Meta, Amazon, Stripe, and Bolt, and received offers from Uber, Microsoft, and Apple.

If you feel like you need this kind of support, fill out this short form and I'll send you more info: bit.ly/new98h

My friend who is in Big Tech for a long time, and got a lot of juicy offers from bunch of big names👆👆

So what I would say, this is not enough. The problem is how to deal with mental breakdown state, when your brain literally is not responding, it is loading, and it is taking you 10 seconds to parse simple boolean logic like "1 is less then or equal 2 and 1 is bigger or equal than 2".


So advice: when you prep, or solving leetcode, put time pressure on you, don't just sit aside for 2 hours trying to come up with something. No, 20 minutes, if you didn't do it - it is failed.

Happy weekend

so this weekend I will stream starcraft 2 for sure. I wanted to do that for last 2-3 months, but was too busy with the prep and leetcode. Will post here updates, when exactly we will do it.

Yeah, today 19:00-20:00 +- Prague time we gonna stream starcraft 2. Very probably stream will not be saved.

Coming to the office already. You can ask about literally anything on the stream, as probably not that many starcrafters are out there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attOfOeUMfI&ab_channel=andreyka26_se

https://www.twitch.tv/andreyka26_


Gogogo lets farm mmr

Diamond 3 is back here

okay, it was 1 time thing. Next time we gonna have again leetcode + system design streams. So don't worry

Daily. Description is shit, but translates to "Find out the longest length of subarrays with at most 2 different numbers". Nice and cool problem for Sliding Window pattern

https://leetcode.com/problems/fruit-into-baskets/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2025-08-04

Lately I joined the Leetcode / FAANG ukrainian chats. And fuck, they are beasts. They just shared their leetcode daily streaks. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

just for reference, here is mine

wish everyone peaceful week like this pic

Found this imba in the office. COME TO PAPA

Okay. Since we got a lot of people, what do u think about streaming before weekend, like tomorrow. We can talk, I can introduce myself, solve a bit leetcode, and system design tomorrow ?

I would appreciate tiktok and instagram subs in case u are there. I am posting there as well:

https://www.tiktok.com/@andreyka26__?_t=ZN-8ybjA0LfHJm&_r=1

https://www.instagram.com/andreyka26_se?igsh=YWdtNXl2OHk1NnJy&utm_source=qr

https://leetcode.com/problems/fruits-into-baskets-ii/description/?envType=daily-question&envId=2025-08-05

Spent around 30 mins to think about something better than O(N^2), and then realized, this is basically the best we can do here

#daily

fuck my life, something big might come, it might turn out that these 375 are not worthless, and actually they did their job😎

But now too early to say