There is always a "nult" made for you. Diversity, luck, randomness, all are there, but do we have any options? It's their company, they have to pay, so it's their decision. All we can do is improve ourselves in all aspects๐.
" If you're type A bolt, go with type A nult, or sharpen yourself to fit type B nult "๐ฉ.
I've seen many people saying they are experts, CMs,.. but not able to clear the interview, and some random newbies get selected instead.
CP-DSA is one of the factors, not the only one.
There are some uncertainties in current time, but still. Consider other soft skills as well, sometime they may give preference to (high soft skills, low technical) instead of (low soft skills, high technical).
YOU ARE "COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENT" NOT ONLY "COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMER".
YOU ALSO HAVE TO LEARN OPERATING SYSTEM, COMPUTER NETWORKS, DATABASE MGMT, OOPS, SYSTEM DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, DEVELOPMENT, AND ALL.
@Nileeeesh I knew it was from the prev CF div-2 round. But this problem is too old, approximately 3-4 years old. At that time, the difficulty level was different from the current level. The problem was new at that time. But for now, it appears to be a very common DP problem(under 1600).
about cisco oa, tbh, I don't understand on which basis everyone says the difficulty was 2000. Two dp questions were very standard and repeated. Difficulty of problem also depends on the "normality". The remaining one was simple math with some accuracy. Isn't ?