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An honest review of Grokking the Coding Interview’s pattern method
On 6 September 2026 I opened educative.io’s course page and its pricing page for Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns three separate times, looking for…
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Does Cracking the Coding Interview still hold up in 2026?
In January 2025, Gayle Laakmann McDowell, the same person who wrote Cracking the Coding Interview back in 2011, co-wrote a full successor instead of…
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The campus aptitude round, and how to actually prepare for it
On 6 September 2026 I opened faceprep’s pattern pages for the Deloitte and CoCubes campus aptitude tests as part of aptitude test preparation research,…
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None of these three will tell you the price until you talk to someone
On 6 September 2026 I opened the public pages for Scaler, Coding Ninjas, and Interview Kickstart looking for one thing: a number. A monthly…
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Three DSA platforms, three different jobs to do
On 6 September 2026 I tried to open LeetCode’s own subscribe page to check its Premium price and got a flat 403. GeeksforGeeks let…
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Platform by Platform: What Each Coding Proctor Actually Flags
Check what HackerRank and CodeSignal proctoring actually detects in 2026, which AI tools survive each stack, and where the integrity flags come from.
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AlgoExpert sells reps. Hello Interview sells the rounds where you talk.
Hello Interview vs AlgoExpert, both priced live on 20 Aug 2026: one drills 200 algorithm reps, the other drills design and behavioral. Compare them.
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Two courses called Grokking System Design. Which one should you buy?
Design Gurus vs Educative for the Grokking system design course: lesson counts, mock interviews and prices checked on 20 August 2026. Compare both.
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Two assessment platforms, two different things to practise
CodeSignal vs HackerRank, compared for candidates with prices checked on 20 Aug 2026. See what each assessment tests and what to practise first.
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Which system design course do you actually finish?
Compare ByteByteGo vs Educative on price, depth and format, with rupee pricing pulled live on 20 August 2026, and pick the one you'll actually…