Neetcode v Leetcode blog post

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+title: "What is the difference between NeetCode and Leetcode?"
+pubDate: "2023-03-13"
+slug: "neetcode-vs-leetcode"
+description: "NeetCode and Leetcode are related but different. Let's compare the two!"
+hero: "/images/leetcode.png"
+tags: ["interviewing"]
+layout: "../../layouts/BlogPostLayout.astro"
+---
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+Newcomers to the tech interviewing circuit may be confused between a couple different services: NeetCode and Leetcode. Importantly, both of these services are used to help prepare for programming interviews.
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+In this post, we'll cover the difference between the two.
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+# Why do we need NeetCode or Leetcode?
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+We need these services because they help us prepare for programming interviews. These services have done an excellent job at capturing the essense of a particular type of question asked by tech companies.
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+# What is Leetcode?
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+[Leetcode.com](https://leetcode.com) is a website with _thousands_ of coding challenges. On the site, you go through a series of problems that range in difficulty from Easy to Medium to Hard.
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+On Leetcode, you can sign up for a free account. The free account has a lot of great features and lets you do the core functionality of drilling coding challenges. The following screen grab is an example of what a problem looks like on Leetcode:
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+![solving a leetcode problem](/images/leetcode-solve.jpg)
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+Leetcode also has some training sections that teach you data structures, algorithms, and problem solving techniques.
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+In addition to the free options, Leetcode offers a premium membership option. It gives you access to more questions and interesting features like sorting problems by the frequency they're asked at a particular company.
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+Leetcode questions have become one of the most popular types of questions to ask in coding interviews, especially for big tech and FAANG companies.
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+# What is NeetCode?
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+Remember how I said Leetcode has _thousands_ of problems? For most developers, including myself, that's way too many problems to practice when preparing for an interview.
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+Enter NeetCode! [NeetCode.io](https://neetcode.io) is a website created by a software engineer that aims at providing a _curated list_ of 150 problems from Leetcode to practice. These problems are organized into the following categories:
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+- Arrays & Hashmaps
+- Two Pointers
+- Sliding Windows
+- Stack
+- Binary Seach
+- Linked List
+- Trees
+- Tries
+- Heap / Priority Queue
+- Backtracking
+- Graphs
+- Advanced Graphs
+- 1-D Dynamic Programming
+- 2-D Dynamic Programming
+- Greedy
+- Intervals
+- Math & Geometry
+- Bit Manipulation
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+Not only does he provide a curated list, he also provides written solutions and excellent video tutorials explaining how to solve each problem.
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+NeetCode has seen so much success helping folks prepare for interviews that he recently created a paid tier for his website that has access to courses and additional content. While I haven't subscribed to this tier yet, I'm sure it's worth it given the quality of his free content.
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+# Using NeetCode and Leetcode together
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+Whenever someone is preparing for a tech interview, I often recommend they use Neetcode as a guide and solve problems directly in LeetCode. This way, you'll get all the benefits of the curated list and explanations on Neetcode while still getting good hands-on-keyboard practice on LeetCode.
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+# More tips and guidance
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+I wrote an entire [Interview Guide](https://interviewguide.dev) for someware engineering interviews, so please check it out!