Striver vs Love Babbar DSA sheet: which one for placements

For campus placements, pick Striver’s SDE Sheet or A2Z sheet if you are starting now; stay with Love Babbar’s 450 if you already follow it and are midway. With 2 weeks left, do 30–40 core problems (arrays, strings, hashing, greedy, stacks and simple dynamic programming) and keep the last days for revision; with 2 months, work through Striver’s SDE Sheet (about 180 problems) at about 3 a day. Either sheet covers the arrays, strings, hashing, greedy and dynamic programming that TCS NQT, GenC and other campus rounds ask.

The two sheets at a glance

Both sheets are free lists on the authors’ sites: Striver’s A2Z sheet and SDE Sheet on takeUforward, and Love Babbar’s 450 sheet on GeeksforGeeks. Counts change when they add problems; the table above is as of 25 October 2026, from those pages.

bhai Striver DSA sheet complete karne me kitna time lagega?

• Striver SDE (about 180): about 8–9 weeks at 3 problems a day, or about 6 weeks at 4–5 a day if you already know the basics.
• Striver A2Z (about 450 items): about 4–5 months at 3–4 a day; takeUforward itself says about six months at a steady pace.
• Love Babbar 450: about 5 months at 3 a day. GeeksforGeeks says 2–3 months with no days off, which means 5–8 problems a day. Most students do not finish all 450 before placements.
• Speed depends on whether you write the idea in one line before you code and whether you revisit problems the next day. Your pace may vary — the times above assume 45–60 minutes per problem on average, so 3 problems is about 2–3 hours a day and 4–5 problems is 3–5 hours.

bhai Love Babbar DSA sheet karu ya Striver wali placement ke liye kaunsi better hai

• Pick Striver SDE or A2Z if you are starting now or restarting. It maps closely to campus coding rounds and has more recent editorials and video walkthroughs.
• Stay with Love Babbar 450 if you are already past 150 and comfortable with its order — switching midway resets momentum.
• Overlap: both sheets cover the same core — arrays and strings, hashing, two pointers, greedy, stacks and simple dynamic programming — so either sheet, finished well, is enough for most mass-recruiter rounds.
• Stronger filter: product-based shortlists may go beyond either sheet into harder dynamic programming and graphs. For that, add LeetCode mediums after the sheet.

Week-by-week plan (2 weeks left)

• Days 1–3: arrays and strings (two pointers, hashing) — about 10 problems from the Striver SDE Sheet’s Arrays, Hashing and Two Pointers sections.
• Days 4–6: hashing + greedy (meetings, boats, stock buy-sell). See Infosys and Accenture for 4 greedy/meeting problems.
• Days 7–10: stacks, sliding window and simple dynamic programming (Kadane, stairs). See TCS NQT for 4 dynamic programming/array problems.
• Days 11–14: revisit your mistakes and time yourself (20 minutes per easy problem).

Week-by-week plan (2 months left)

• Weeks 1–2: arrays, strings, hashing and binary search from the Striver SDE Sheet (if your basics are weak, do the A2Z sheet’s beginner steps first).
• Weeks 3–4: linked list, recursion and backtracking.
• Weeks 5–6: dynamic programming (knapsack, longest common subsequence and longest increasing subsequence), greedy and stacks.
• Weeks 7–8: trees and graphs, then revision and timed mock rounds.

More practice with tested code: 10 DSA questions students report from campus rounds.

Practise with Savyly

• Savyly’s DSA & Coding mode: put any sheet problem on your laptop screen, press one key, and get the idea, commented code, time and space complexity and a dry run. It works on LeetCode, Codeforces, HackerRank, CodeChef or your college portal. AI coding assistant.
• Mock coding interviews: type /practice and pick coding — Savyly asks one DSA problem at a time and pushes on complexity and edge cases. How practice interviews work.
• 15 free minutes, no card, then from ₹99 an hour, paid once. Diwali offer until 8 November 2026: ₹99, ₹199, ₹499 and ₹999. Pricing.

Questions

More placement prep

• TCS NQT coding questions — 10 practice problems with tested Python, C++ and Java solutions, and the test pattern from TCS’s own page.
• Infosys and Accenture coding questions — 10 practice problems from strings to greedy and dynamic programming, with each test’s format from the companies’ own pages.
• Wipro coding questions — 8 practice problems on arrays, strings, number logic and grids, with what Wipro’s hiring pages say about Elite, Turbo and WILP.
• Cognizant GenC coding questions — 8 practice problems on strings, counting, stacks and greedy, with what Cognizant’s pages say about GenC hiring.
• Capgemini coding questions — 8 practice problems from number theory and prefix sums to a simple dynamic programming, with Capgemini’s hiring process from its own pages.
• HR interview questions for freshers — 20 common questions, what each one is really asking, and sample answers in English and Hinglish.
• Tell me about yourself: sample answer for freshers — Three sample answers in English with a Hinglish version of each, what the interviewer is really asking and how to make it yours.
• DSA interview questions with solutions — 10 DSA questions students report from campus placements, with the idea, complexity and links to practice problems with tested code.
• Mass recruiter vs product-based strategy — Mass recruiters vs product-based companies: how they hire, what they pay, and how to prepare when you have little time.
• Tier-3 college placement guide — Off-campus channels, projects and a guide to requesting referrals.
• 60% criteria and backlog rules — What TCS, Wipro, Capgemini and Accenture say on their own pages, and how CGPA converts.
• Service bond for freshers — Service bonds for freshers: what the paper says, how long, how much, and how to ask about it in the HR round.
• Take-home assignment for freshers — What fresher take-homes usually ask, how to check your own work, and a checklist before you submit.
• Backlog and CGPA eligibility — What TCS NQT and other drives allow, and what varies each year.
• System design for freshers — Whether service-based companies ask it, which product rounds do, and what to study in 3 days.
• Cognizant GenC vs GenC Next — How Cognizant describes GenC, GenC Next, Pro and standard tracks, and what current pages do and do not publish.
• Gap year and backlog — how to explain — How to explain a gap year or backlog in an HR interview: three safe narratives, Hinglish and English sample answers, and follow-ups.