Hi everyone,

I’m a Software Developer with 2.5 years of experience(Service-based), targeting a switch to a good product-based company (non-FAANG) with a 12+ LPA package.

Wanted some honest feedback on my prep and what I should focus on next.

My Preparation So Far

DSA: (Descent 450 questions)

• Arrays, Strings
• Hashing, Sliding Window, Two Pointer
• Linked List, Stack
• Trees & BST
• Graphs
• Heap
• Greedy
• Dynamic Programming
• Backtracking

Backend / Core:

• Java (Core + Multithreading)
• Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security
• REST APIs
• JPA / Hibernate
• SQL
• System Design Patterns and basics
• Microservices basics and Kafka

My Questions

• What should I focus on next: DSA (hard), System Design, or Backend depth?
• Am I on the right track for 12+ LPA roles?
• Which companies should I target realistically?