Final-year students
Placement season is close and your resume still has no project on it.
Finish with three pieces of work you can demo in an interview.
Interview Prep
Interview DSA Crash Course
Solve the interview problems that are actually asked of freshers — out loud, under time, on paper — in four weeks.
- 4 weeksEstimated time
- 4Modules
- 15Lessons
- 3Projects
- YesCertificate
- FreePrice
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Who this course is for
Three people take this course. The work is the same; the reason is different.
Fresh graduates
You have the degree, but the job ads ask for proof of skill.
Build a portfolio before the next hiring round, not after it.
Career switchers
You are experienced elsewhere, new to this field, and starting from zero.
Learn the vocabulary and ship one published project that proves the switch.
Proof, not notes
What you will build
Every module ends in something finished. These are the pieces you leave with.
A pattern notebook: every problem
you solve, its pattern and its complexity in one line
Skills used Interview Prep
Portfolio project
Four recorded practice interviews narrated
out loud
Skills used Interview Prep
Portfolio project
A full mock interview from
the Career Portal's AI mock-interview tool, with its feedback written down
Skills used Interview Prep
Portfolio project
The brief
Your final project
A full mock interview from
the Career Portal's AI mock-interview tool, with its feedback written down
- Write down, in one sentence, what the finished thing does and who it is for.
- Build it with the tools this course taught. A borrowed project cannot be explained in an interview.
- Run it from a clean start on another machine, and fix whatever breaks.
- Publish it, and put the link at the top of your resume's project section.
What changes
What you will be able to do
Not definitions to recite — tasks you can open a laptop and complete.
Roles this supports Fresher software engineer at a product company · Trainee / graduate engineer at a services company · Second-round technical interviews you have already qualified for
- State the time and space cost of your own solution in the interview without being asked twice
- Recognise the ~12 patterns behind the vast majority of fresher interview questions
- Write working code on paper or a plain editor, with no autocomplete and no run button
- Talk through your approach before typing, which is what the interviewer is grading
- Handle a question you have never seen by reducing it to a pattern you know
- Recover from a blank moment without going silent for two minutes
The syllabus
Course curriculum
4 modules · 15 lessons. Open a module to see its outcome and lesson titles.
Module 1 Complexity and how to think out loud The vocabulary of the interview. A correct answer you cannot explain is a rejection.
- 01 Big-O without the fear Free preview
- 02 The pattern-first method
- 03 Explaining before writing
- 04 Numbers you should know cold
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 2 Arrays, strings and hashing The highest-frequency patterns in fresher interviews, and the easiest to practise.
- 05 Two pointers
- 06 Hash maps and sets
- 07 Sliding window
Deliverable 3 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 3 Recursion, trees and the questions you cannot prepare for The shapes that appear in a second technical round, plus the recovery skills nobody teaches.
- 08 Recursion and the call stack
- 09 Binary trees, traversals and search
- 10 When you go blank
- 11 A 4-week practice plan, condensed
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 4 Graphs, greedy and interview polish The two patterns left, and the debrief that makes practice actually stick.
- 12 Graphs: BFS and DFS
- 13 Greedy and intervals
- 14 Binary search on the answer
- 15 The mock interview and the debrief
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Lesson explanations, worked examples and practice tasks are in the learning player, not on this page — so you can read the syllabus without scrolling through the whole course.
How the course works
Every lesson follows the same four steps. No passive video playlists.
- 1
Learn the concept
A short explanation in plain English, with the one idea the lesson depends on.
- 2
See a worked example
The same task done end to end, with the reasoning behind each step.
- 3
Complete the practice task
You write it yourself. The task is the lesson; the reading is only the setup.
- 4
Build and publish a project
Each module ends in work you can open, explain and attach to an application.
Way2Fresher Academy
Courses written for the fresher hiring market — not translated from a bootcamp built for another country.
- Plain English Every explanation is written to be read once, slowly, by someone new to the field.
- Project-first A practice task in every lesson and a project at the end of every module.
- No paywall The full syllabus, all lessons and the certificate are free. Nothing is held back for a paid tier.
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7,200Learners
3Portfolio projects
15Lessons
The work is the proof
A fresher interview cannot assess a certificate. It can assess a project you can open, explain and change on the spot — which is why every course here ends in one.
- A finished project brief with an evaluation checklist
- A shareable repository, dashboard or case study
- A certificate that records the work, once every lesson is done
Frequently asked questions
The answers that decide whether this is the right six weeks.
How many problems should I solve before interviewing?
Around 60–80 real ones, each narrated out loud, covers the patterns fresher interviews actually use. Numbers in the hundreds without narration is the common trap: you recognise but cannot produce.
I know coding but I freeze in interviews. Is that fixable?
Yes, and it is the most fixable part. Narrating every practice problem out loud, including one full mock a week, is the training — not more reading. Take the free AltiGrad check: communication is one of the areas it scores, and it will show you how much of your gap is interview skill rather than knowledge.
Is this course free?
The lessons, examples and practice tasks are free, and the AI mock-interview tool on the Career Portal is free to use.
Do I need data structures from my college syllabus?
No. Arrays, strings, maps, sets, trees and recursion cover the overwhelming majority of fresher questions. This course teaches exactly those and skips the theory you will not be asked.
Do I need coding experience?
No. This course is written for intermediate learners and every lesson starts from the tool itself. If you can use a browser and a file, you can start lesson one today.
How long will it take?
About 4 weeks. The course holds 15 lessons, each built around one practice task, so the calendar depends on how many sessions you can keep each week.
Will I get a certificate?
Yes. Finish every lesson while signed in and a certificate with your name, the course, the date and the skills covered unlocks on this site. It is a record of work completed here, not an accredited qualification.
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