Very High demand Excellent for remote

DSA Mastery (Interview Track) roadmap

The add-on every SWE/AI interview demands — patterns, not memorization.

DSA is the gatekeeper skill: FAANG, product startups, and remote-first companies all screen on it. It's also the highest-ROI 3 months a fresher can spend.

What it pays

India: Unlocks ₹15–40 LPA+ product roles

Remote worldwide: Unlocks $150k+ remote roles

Before you start

One programming language
Willingness to be bad at it for 4 weeks

The plan, phase by phase

Core patterns

Weeks 1–8

Skills

Arrays & hashingTwo pointersSliding windowStack & monotonic patternsBinary search variantsLinked lists

Learn it free

NeetCode 150 — Do in order. 2 problems/day beats 10 on Sunday

Build: A personal pattern journal: for each problem, the pattern name and the 'trigger' that reveals it.

Interview angle: Interviewers name the pattern in their head within 2 minutes — train yourself to do the same.

Advanced patterns

Weeks 9–16

Skills

Trees & triesGraphs (BFS/DFS, topo sort, union-find)Heaps & top-KDynamic programming (1D → 2D)Greedy vs DP intuitionMock interviews weekly

Learn it free

NeetCode DP playlist — DP clicks around problem 20 — push through
Pramp / peer mocks — Free peer mock interviews — talking while coding is a separate skill

Build: Weekly timed mock interviews; record and review your communication, not just correctness.

Interview angle: Hard problems are rare; clean mediums with excellent communication pass more interviews.

Remote-readiness checklist

Can solve mediums in 25 min while thinking aloud
Pattern journal with 100+ entries

Portfolio proof you need

150 problems across all patterns
Mock interview recordings showing clear communication

Roadmap done? Now get the job.

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