In conversation with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hariom-panchal-857a20172/">Hariom</a>, a student of Renaissance by Programming Pathshala who has recently joined Mystifly as their SDE. He joined Renaissance back in his college days itself and after studying with the course consistently, he has finally been able to make his shift to Mystifly as their SDE. Read this blog to know more about his Interview Experience with Mystifly and his preparation journey with Renaissance.
 
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Hi Hariom, How have you been?
 
Hey, I have been great, Thanks :)
 
Great, so Hariom let’s begin with your Introduction?
 
Sure, Hi everyone my name is Hariom and I belong to Haryana. I have completed my Btech in computer science from Lovely Professional University in 2022. I had been working with some other organisation previously and last month only I have gotten my Offer letter from Mystifly to join them as their SDE and I am very excited to join them from January 2023.&nbsp;
 
Amazing Hariom, Congratulations for joining Mystifly as their SDE!&nbsp;
Can you throw some light upon your Interview process with Mystifly? Including how you applied etc.
 
Yes, so I had joined for a 6 month course at Renaissance and just around when my course was about to get over at Programming Pathshala, I reached out to Anoop bhaiya for a referral to which he helped me with the same. In between this process I had even given one Mock Interview at Programming Pathshala itself to which afterwards I was referred to Mystifly, based upon my performance.
 
During my Interview rounds at Mystifly, I had 2 rounds of interviews which consisted of DSA related questions and the difficulty level of these questions was somewhere around easy to medium and even hard. I gave both of my rounds within time constraints and for the second round, I was also asked questions related to DBMS, Networking, Operating System and Low Level Design. These questions varied around the Easy to Medium level of DSA questions.&nbsp;
It took almost 2 weeks for me to complete my Interview process at Mystifly.&nbsp;
 
Okay, and how was the question level?&nbsp;
 
In the first round, the first question was easy to medium. And the second question was actually from the Renaissance Dashboard which was the graph question.&nbsp;
Because I studied that question at Renaissance so I found it medium to hard, but to someone if not prepared with the course, they will definitely find it hard.
 
So true. Hariom! Coming to your college journey, how did you start with your coding journey from college days itself?
 
So 2018 was my first year and as usual, I was very busy with a very wide variety of subjects. So I couldn't focus on coding solely. In the beginning, I started to learn the language of DSA and C++. I first did C++ basics and after that, I started doing some mathematics questions on DSA, on the codechef and on the leetcode. I then started learning some basic concepts in the second semester of my second year.&nbsp;
 
In the second year, Programming Pathshala came to my college &nbsp;and conducted a workshop of 15 days. So when I sat in Vivek bhaiya’s class, I got to know a lot of things that I didn't know about DSA. And the way he taught, I started to learn a lot. Soon, I came to know that there is a dedicated course on DSA and Interview Preparations by Programming Pathshala and joined the same. 

Great Hariom, and as you have been a student of Programming Pathshala for a long time. So, how was it for you? Could you enhance your Problem solving skills with us?
 
It was really nice. Earlier, I was only doing mathematics questions and never had any problem with it. But when I got to know about what is important while clearing the interviews, Vivek Bhaiya told us that these things don't matter and only the DSA and problem solving and the patterns in the problem matter. So at the same time, I was able to prepare well.&nbsp;
 
With the Renaissance referral, it was my first interview and the other one was a mock interview.&nbsp;
 
With respect to my campus placements, I had given three or four interviews earlier. In which one of them I could crack and join.
I found the content of Renaissance to be really great. Apart from that, the live classes, the doubt sessions, and in the comment section within each problem makes the course stand out on its own. Here, you can ask your doubts and it can be resolved within like an hour or two at max. 

So Hariom, as you are a working professional from before itself so there must have been times of lacking with Time Management, feeling tired or demotivated with your preparations. How did you cope with such times?
 
Yeah, these issues did come up and I also felt demotivated at times. I used to feel stuck when I couldn’t solve a problem and I would give one whole day to that problem, if still not able to solve then I would go to my mentors like Vivek or Bharat bhaiya and ask them my doubts personally. Feeling demotivated is pretty natural I would say. But in long journey, you have to see things clearly. Know that the journey is not hard and we just have to be focused on the road.&nbsp;
 
I would just say that there are never any shortcuts to success. You can never achieve greater things by going the shorter way. We have to be consistent with our efforts. Make notes and study whenever possible, I believe writing and doing things can take you a long way. I will highly encourage everyone to make notes and make proper notes so that you don't have to watch the video again. Make the notes so clear and precise that even while revising the notes you understand each and every bit.&nbsp;
 
What I used to do was if I am working for the whole week then I don't get time to watch videos and I would take pictures of my notes and keep it in my phone, I had section wise notes for sorting, searching etc and all this I have made in sections and I have made pages of all the notes.&nbsp;
So even on the days when I was not learning anything new, I would revise the things that I have already done. So that helps a lot.&nbsp;
 
Yes. I completely agree with you. It always happens that you know when you have your notes handy with you you can revise it rather than going back to the video and watching it all over again.
 
Another advice that I would like to give everyone preparing is that I have seen so many students struggling between resources and getting confused for what to prepare from where and after studying with Renaissance myself, I can recommend you this course with surety to be able to build your Problem solving skills like you won’t be able to from any other resource. Just stick to this course and practise questions that are given to you as a part of this course and you’ll be able to crack any Top-Tech company’s Interview. 

I feel extremely delighted that you feel this way Hariom, Thank you so much for being here. It has been lovely having a word with you and thank you so much for giving me your time.&nbsp;
I wish you all the best as you join Mystifly from January 2023. 

You can also watch his Interview Expeience LIVE on our YouTube now: <a href="https://youtu.be/qjw3q4NSs84" title="https://youtu.be/qjw3q4NSs84">https://youtu.be/qjw3q4NSs84</a>
 
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My Journey to becoming SDE with Mystifly

In conversation with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bishesh-singh-b60055195/" title="&lt;strong class=&quot;jf ih&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, Times, serif;&quot;&gt;Bishesh Singh&lt;/strong&gt;">Bishesh Singh</a>, a student of <a href="https://renaissance.programmingpathshala.com/crack-coding-interviews" title="Programming Pathshala">Programming Pathshala</a> who has bagged a seat with Amazon as their SDE Intern. He is a student of LPU (Lovely Professional University) Punjab and has been a student of Renaissance for over 6–8 months. Read this blog to know more about his Interview Experience with Amazon as well as his preparation journey with our Hand-crafted course “Renaissance”.
 
#100Stories is a series of transformational stories of courage and indomitable will to excel, picked from the lives of tech students, particularly in India. Initiative by <a href="http://www.programmingpathshala.com/" title="&lt;strong class=&quot;jf ih&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, Times, serif;&quot;&gt;Programming Pathshala&lt;/strong&gt;">Programming Pathshala</a>.
 
 
Hi Bishesh, how have you been?
 
-: I’m fine, what about you?
 
Good, Thanks! Can you please introduce yourself, let everyone know you?
 
-: Sure, Hi everyone, My name is Bishesh Singh and I’m from Bihar. Currently, I’m in my second last semester of Computer Science Engineering from Lovely Professional University, Punjab. I’ve recently gotten my offer letter from Amazon and will be joining them from January 2023. My parents are very proud of me and I remember back when I received my offer from Amazon, I could hardly believe myself so I kept calling my Placement Cell to confirm about my candidature haha.
 
Great Bishesh, and how has been your journey to reaching Amazon directly from your college?
 
-: Honestly, Programming Pathshala has helped me a lot to reach where I am today. I learned a lot of tricks and it improved my problem solving skills very much. In every concept, there are two videos.
 
The first one is the approach and the second one is the code part. So first you watch the first one and try to do it on your own. If you can’t do that, then try to see the second video and try to solve it after that. Even if you have solved it by watching the first one, then again it’s very good. But still you should watch the second one because there will be some optimisation in this code. About my experience, that was superb and very challenging. The course, Renaissance is very well structured from starting to very ending.
 
Amazing Bishesh, how was your interview experience with Amazon? How did you apply for your placement? Any tips for resumes here?
 
-: Amazon came to my college in August and everything was done in that one day itself. In the coding round, they asked me two questions and both of these questions were from medium to hard level. The first question was a bit easy for me but the second one took some time to solve. In the interview round, I was very nervous as it was my first technical interview. So I was not sure of what they might just ask.
When I joined the meeting, the first question was for my Introduction. After the introduction, they asked me about my projects and there was one question from DBMS as well.
 
After this they asked me 2 coding related questions, First one looked very easy but after some time, they reduced the time and space complexity and it became very, very difficult. I was still able to solve that question very easily due to my practice with Renaissance. The second question was exactly from the questions given in Renaissance and it was just a little bit modified.
 
So to look at the entire interview experience, what would you call it? Was it easy for you, difficult or medium level?
 
-: Medium, it was definitely Medium level of questions for me.
 
How were your preparations here with Renaissance? Did you need to brush up on your skills? You said that there were a few questions directly related to the Renaissance, could you throw some light on the same?
 
-: So in the month of March this year, my university provided us with three courses. All of these 3 courses were from very famous platforms and Programming Pathshala’s Renaissance was one of these 3. As I was weak in coding so I wanted to opt for either one of these 3 courses at least and turned to one of my seniors for advice. He advised me to go with Programming Pathshala and it has been one of my best decisions so far.It really helped me hone my coding skills.
 
That’s nice. So Vishesh, were there any times where you might have felt demotivated or might have felt that college’s work was overlapping your preparations. How did you manage your time and how did you cope up with your motivation issues if you ever had any?
 
-: There have been times where I could not study properly due to my college assignments or duties that I had to deliver. I had to manage time accordingly but as I was sure of my future goals, I made sure that I do some part of preparation everyday and finally we have made it to Amazon so that’s great!
 
It has been a lovely session, Bishesh. Thank you so much for being here. But before you leave, any piece of advice, for your fellow SDE’s?
 
-: I’d like to advise that they should do hard work and be persistent in coding. Attempt at least one question everyday so that you don’t lose consistency because if you lose consistency in your Preparations then you will face the consequences and might start feeling demotivated towards your goals.
 
Thank you so much for being here Bishesh, I wish you all the best as you join Amazon very soon and take care.
 
Watch Bishesh’s Interview experience with Amazon LIVE on our YouTube now: <a href="https://youtu.be/m6ag8d9ZXZs" title="https://youtu.be/m6ag8d9ZXZs">https://youtu.be/m6ag8d9ZXZs</a>
 
You can also start your journey with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/programming-pathshala/mycompany/?viewAsMember=true" title="Programming Pathshala">Programming Pathshala</a> now. Logon to <a href="http://www.programmingpathshala.com/" title="www.programmingpathshala.com">www.programmingpathshala.com</a> and take a free trial.
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This is how I became an SDE Intern with Amazon 

In conversation with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish-karn-11453b143/" title="&lt;strong class=&quot;jf ih&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, Times, serif;&quot;&gt;Ashish Karn&lt;/strong&gt;">Ashish Karn</a>, a student of <a href="https://renaissance.programmingpathshala.com/crack-coding-interviews" title="Programming Pathshala">Programming Pathshala</a> who has been working with Cognizant, a service based company and has finally made his transition to Oracle, a product based company. Read this blog to know more about his Interview Experience with Oracle and his Interview preparation journey with Renaissance: One-Stop solution to solve all your coding related worries!
 
#100Stories is a series of transformational stories of courage and indomitable will to excel, picked from the lives of tech students, particularly in India. Initiative by <a href="http://www.programmingpathshala.com/" title="&lt;strong class=&quot;jf ih&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-family: source-serif-pro, Georgia, Cambria, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, Times, serif;&quot;&gt;Programming Pathshala&lt;/strong&gt;">Programming Pathshala</a>.
 
 
Hi Ashish, Glad to have you here! Can you please Introduce yourself?
 
Sure, Hi everyone, My name is Ashish Karn and I am from Patna, Bihar. I completed my Engineering in the year 2020 in Computer Science field. I have been working with Cognizant where I got placed through my Campus placements and have finally made my switch to Oracle as an Application Developer 2, which has always been my major aim to achieve.
I have been associated with Programming Pathshala for 2 years now and my experience has been Top-notch with Renaissance.
 
That’s great Ashish, so you have been a part of Programming Pathshala for 2 years now. Can you throw some light on your experience with us in this time-span?
 
I believe there are few students who come with some basic understanding of programming and coding from their college itself. Back when I joined Programming Pathshala, I was probably the weakest student in my batch. I was looking for guidance to learn DSA and one of my friends suggested this course to me.
It has been a journey full of Ups and Downs but it has been an amazing journey and also one such to remember.
 
Safe to say that you have built yourself from scratch here, Ashish.
 
Indeed, whatever I am today, I owe it to Programming Pathshala. It’s all due to my preparation with Renaissance that I have finally been able to make my shift from a Service based to a Product based company. I remember once Vivek bhaiya asked me to start with Peer Group Discussion and by then I didn’t even know what he meant by that. That’s how naive I was.
 
Incredible Ashish, coming to your journey to reaching Oracle, how has it been for you? Right from your college life itself to becoming the Application Developer 2 today.
 
So I belong to a Tier-3 college and I did not have many goal oriented people around me, like the ones who would also be striving hard to become an engineer. Most of my peers back then were care-free and didn’t care much about the placements. In my college, the usual thing was to learn any programming language, know some basics of Data Structure and you will get a job, in fact this is exactly what happened as well. We did not even have great alumni who we could look up-to and take inspiration from. I remember getting to know about DS Algo by my 4th year.
I got placed at Cognizant through my college placements and as we all know that it is a Service based company, my experience has been somewhat fine. I had to struggle to make time from work and study simultaneously, being in a service based company, I also had to build my foundation for a Product based company from scratch.
 
Exactly, coming to your work-life Balance, as you were a working professional, so how did you cope up with the Time Management and achieved your transition to a Product based company.
 
It has definitely been a journey full of challenges, I sometimes had too many projects in my hand that I would not be able to concentrate on my studies for 10–15 days straight and after that I would feel overwhelmed with everything that would pile up in those days. I soon began to realise this issue and started working upon it. I made sure to do at least 1 problem everyday or watch 1 lecture at-least.
Even if it is very hectic for me at times, I made sure to not pile up things on my end and keep solving problems or watching videos, consistently.
 
Sounds Amazing Ashish, and how has been your Interview Experience with Oracle for the role of Application Developer 2?
 
I got a call from the Recruiter from one of my job platform profiles and he asked about my experience etc. After that, my profile got shortlisted and I was further evaluated based upon my DS Algo skills with 3 more rounds of Interview. The Interview lasted for about 5 hours on the same day and the difficulty level of questions was somewhat around medium level Leetcode questions.
 
And how has been your experience with our course Renaissance?
 
Honestly, my experience with this course has been great. We all know that there are a lot of resources available online, you search for 1 question and will fall into a valley of questions pertaining to similar research as yours, but sometimes, more than those resources you need to have a place which you can call home, a place where people are concerned about your growth. As I said, there are no less resources available in online today’s date, but all that matters is the guidance you receive when you are enrolled in one such course.
 
My equation with all the 3 Co-founders has been amazing. To me, Vivek bhaiya is like the God of teaching, Bharat bhaiya is like a big brother and Anoop bhaiya as a motivator. Mentors at Renaissance make sure that each student understands the course, they teach you in a pattern in which they will give you a problem and before giving its solution, they will ask you to solve it on your own with minimum hints. To your surprise, you will notice that you would be able to solve that question on your own with continuous efforts with the course. Here at Programming Pathshala, focus is given upon building your Problem-solving skills and making you an incredible Software/Application developer. I remember one day I was sitting idle and suddenly Anoop bhaiya’s text would pop up asking about my progress with the course and if everything was going smoothly or not. Such times would give me motivation and make me want to work harder than simply sitting idle.
 
As you mentioned that you struggled with keeping up with your motivation at times as you weren’t that great at coding initially, so how did you cope up with such times?
 
I started to make efforts consistently. I made sure to solve at least one problem or watch at least one video everyday before I call it off for that day and this has helped me immensely with my demotivating times. Texts from Anoop bhaiya at the time of self doubt also gave a boost to my preparation with Renaissance by Programming Pathshala.
 
Thank-you for being here Ashish, it has been a pleasure to hear about your Interview Experience with Oracle and your Journey with Renaissance. Before you leave, any word of advice for our budding SDE’s?
 
I would just advise everyone to maintain consistency and keep working on their goals regularly. Make sure to not pile up on things and keep solving at least one problem, or watch one video everyday!
 
Thankyou for that advice Ashish, take care :)
 
Watch Ashish’s Journey to Oracle LIVE on our YouTube NOW: <a href="https://youtu.be/w4mWZXRPU7U" title="https://youtu.be/w4mWZXRPU7U">https://youtu.be/w4mWZXRPU7U</a>
 
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