12 Patterns That Got Me Into Google ,Amazon , Netflix .. --Series 1

### Most Common DSA Patterns (as asked in FAANG interviews)

| Time | Session |
| ---- | ------- |
| 6:30 PM | Welcome + Icebreaker + What to Expect Tonight

– Introduction to FAANG mindset

– Audience poll (Kahoot/Slido)

– Surprise gifts & shoutouts |
| 6:45 PM | DSA Preparation Myths Busted

– How Google and Netflix REALLY interview

– Patterns > Problems: Why brute-force learners fail |
| 7:00 PM | Top 12 DSA Patterns Overview (Live Explainer) |
| 7:15 PM | Pattern 1: Sliding Window Deep Dive (Live Code) |
| 7:30 PM | Pattern 2: Two Pointers (With Visual Visuals) |
| 7:45 PM | Pattern 3: DP Made Simple – From Problem to Code |
| 8:00 PM | Live Google-style Mock Interview (1-on-1 + Feedback) |
| 8:30 PM | Resume & LinkedIn Tips to Crack FAANG |
| 8:50 PM | How to Practice + 90-Day FAANG Pattern Planner |
| 9:00 PM | Q&A + Group Access + Resource Drop (PDF + GitHub) |

These companies repeat patterns, not problems.
Here are the 12 golden patterns most frequently asked (Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft):

| # | Pattern Name | Topics Covered | Sample Questions (FAANG-style) |
| --- | ------------ | -------------- | ------------------------------ |
| 1 | Sliding Window | Arrays, Strings | Max sum subarray, Longest substring without repeating chars |
| 2 | Two Pointers | Arrays, LinkedLists, Strings | Container With Most Water, Palindrome check |
| 3 | Fast and Slow Pointers | Linked Lists | Cycle Detection, Middle of Linked List |
| 4 | Merge Intervals | Arrays of intervals | Merge Intervals, Insert Interval |
| 5 | Cyclic Sort | Arrays, Sorting | Missing Number, Find Duplicate |
| 6 | Top K Elements | Heap, QuickSelect | K Closest Points, Kth Largest Element |
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7 | Backtracking | DFS, Recursion | N-Queens, Word Search, Sudoku Solver |
| 8 | Binary Search | Arrays, Infinite Search Space | Search Rotated Array, Peak Element |
| 9 | Breadth-First Search (BFS) | Trees, Graphs | Level Order Traversal, Shortest Path |
| 10 | Depth-First Search (DFS) | Graphs, Trees | Connected Components, Island Count |
| 11 | Dynamic Programming | Recursion + Memo | Knapsack, Longest Subsequence, Edit Distance |
| 12 | Greedy | Sorting + Decision | Activity Selection, Huffman Coding

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