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DJSmooth

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Studied for about 2 months, I know basic discrete math concepts but i can't do proofs for algo analysis, and i did 50 LC questions and probably 10-20 questions in CTCI and EPI

50 questions on LC is child's play. If you check Leetcode discussions and Team Blind you atleast need to be in the 300-500 range.
 

OSUBaneBrowns

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I got a Java Sun Cert and basically hyped up any lil bit of development I was exposed to. I was a manual tester , like typing in the URL and clicking buttons tester, I hyped up the few excel macros and automated testing scripts i wrote and that was good enough to get me in the door as a dev support person

Now days it probably makes sense to do tutorial projects put them on github and hype them up
I’m trying to go into the data analytics space. What would be a good project to show potential employers?
 

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I’m trying to go into the data analytics space. What would be a good project to show potential employers?
I'm not sure what projects would be good to work on, but since I work in the space, I can kind of break down some of the different pieces.

With data being such a big category now, it can be broken down into data science (machine learning sits here, i'm pretty sure?), data engineering (movement of data/data pipelines), data warehousing (storing all useful data, raw and cooked, but moreso cooked), and dashboarding/reporting.

Snowflake has emerged as a major player in the cloud data warehousing space, so you may want to get familiar with that. They provide like $400 worth of free credits with their demo, so you can get familiar with the tech. You'll still need to learn data warehousing concepts, but what this should help with, moreso, is just getting familiar with running sql to support a dashboard or reporting application.

Do you have any questions in particular about getting into the space?
 

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Upgrading to premium on Leetcode worth it? Seems like all the success stories come from paying users.
 
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