14 coding platforms to build your programming logic

Let me give you some interesting insights into the world of technology, which I consider, the tip of the iceberg of uncertainty.

With the advent of DeepSeek AI, which was built by Chinese AI engineers, OpenAI faced a huge setback. Nasdaq became red. The US economy faced losses of 1 trillion US dollars. The DeepSeek R1 model was made open source and was made available for everyone. Also, it's being said that it took lower costs to train the LLM since they were short of resources. Their basic approach involved the use of reinforcement learning. OpenAI then launched its newest reasoning model, the o3 mini, which can essentially "think" and "reason".

🔥THE BURNING QUESTION.....

Why would the recruiters ask coding questions during the recruitment process, if the models are intelligent enough to solve them??

🎁MY HONEST OPINION

Recruiters will ask to solve coding questions to get a glimpse of the innate and raw problem-solving skills of the candidate, the dedication that was previously put in during the preparations, consistency, and discipline. Essentially, coding questions serve as the metric of all the above-mentioned parameters.

With the emergence of ultra-powerful AI models, it's an absolute necessity to possess the skill of problem-solving and logic building. Even using AI tools properly and utilizing them to their maximum potential is not everyone's cup of tea.

Think of yourself, imagine you are a manager of a multi-million dollar enterprise. While recruiting a candidate, would you not check if that person had serious problem-solving skills? Would you not check if that person was disciplined? Would you not check if the human is consistent with putting effort and dedication or not? Surely you would. And what would be the easiest way to do that?

I think you have the answer.

Over the years, I have bookmarked some well-known problem-solving sites that will level up your thinking skills and exercise your brain muscles.

Competitive Programming

1. Codeforces
2. CodeChef
3. Hackerrank
4. HackerEarth
5. Atcoder
6. Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ)
7. Project Euler
8. CSES Problem set

To practice Data Structures and Algorithms

1. Leetcode
2. GeeksForGeeks
3. Striver Sheet
4. InterviewBit
5. Neetcode

Multiple-use site

1. Topcoder

This is it. So let's

GET. SET. CODE. 🤘💪✌