💼 Java DSA Roadmap for Top Tech Interviews (10+ LPA)

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💰 Goal: Crack Product-Based Companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.

💻 Target: 10 LPA+ Packages

📜 Language: Java
Format: Topic-by-topic (no coding)

📍 Phase 0: Java Foundations [Must-Have]

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🧩 Variables, Data Types, Type Casting

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Operators, Control Flow (if, switch, loops)
Functions, Recursion

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OOP Principles (Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction)
Java Collections (List, Set, Map)

⚙️ Strings & StringBuilder

🔄 Exception Handling
I/O Basics (Scanner, BufferedReader, File Handling)

⏱ Phase 1: Time & Space Complexity

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⏳ Big O Notation

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Worst / Best / Average Case
Analyzing Nested Loops

🧠 Complexity of Recursion
Space Optimization Techniques

🧩 Phase 2: Arrays & Strings

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➕ 1D & 2D Arrays

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Prefix Sum, Suffix Sum
Two Pointers

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Sliding Window
Binary Search on Arrays

🔍 Rotate Arrays, Rearrangement

🧵 Search in Rotated Sorted Array

String Pattern Matching (KMP, Rabin-Karp)

🎯 Phase 3: Sorting & Searching

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📦 Bubble, Selection, Insertion

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Merge Sort, Quick Sort
Heap Sort

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Counting Sort, Bucket Sort
Binary Search Variants

🧠 Search in Matrix, First/Last Occurrence

Binary Search on Answer (Min-Max Problems)
🔄 Phase 4: Recursion & Backtracking

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🧠 Recursion Tree, Stack Space

🌌 Base and Recursive Case Design

📚 Backtracking Essentials (Sudoku, N-Queens, Maze Path)

Subsets, Permutations, Combinations

🔗 Phase 5: Linked List

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🔁 Singly, Doubly, and Circular LL

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Reversing a List
Detect & Remove Cycle (Floyd’s Algo)

🧠 Add Numbers as LL

📦 Merge K Lists, Intersection Point

Sort a Linked List (Merge Sort)

🧱 Phase 6: Stack & Queue

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🧠 Stack using Array/LL

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Next Greater Element
Valid Parentheses

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Monotonic Stack
Queue using Array/LL

🌀 Circular Queue

🌊 Deque, LRU Cache (LinkedHashMap / DLL+Map)

Sliding Window Maximum

🌳 Phase 7: Trees & Binary Trees

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📏 Tree Traversals (Inorder, Preorder, Postorder, Level Order)

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Height, Diameter, Balanced Tree
Find Element, Path Sum, Mirror Tree

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Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA)
BST Operations (Insert/Delete/Search)

🧵 Construct Tree from Traversals

📚 Serialize & Deserialize Tree

Trie Implementation & Uses

🏗 Phase 8: Heaps & Priority Queue

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⛏ Min-Heap, Max-Heap

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Build Heap, Heapify
Top K Elements

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K Closest Numbers
Median in Data Stream
Java’s PriorityQueue Class

🔐 Phase 9: Hashing
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🧠 HashMap, HashSet (Java Collections)

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Frequency Count
Count Distinct Elements

🧩 Longest Subarray with Sum K

🧮 Group Anagrams, Isomorphic Strings

Subarray Sums & Hashing Techniques

🌐 Phase 10: Graphs

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🔁 Representation (Adjacency List, Matrix)

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DFS, BFS Traversals
Cycle Detection (Directed & Undirected)

🪜 Union-Find (Disjoint Set)

Topological Sort (Kahn’s Algo, DFS)

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⛓ Shortest Path (Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall)

🧠 MST (Prim’s & Kruskal’s Algorithm)

🔍 Graph Coloring, Bipartite Graph

Bridges, Articulation Points

🧠 Phase 11: Dynamic Programming (DP)

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🎒 Recursion → Memoization → Tabulation

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0/1 Knapsack + Variants
Fibonacci, Climbing Stairs, Grid Path

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Longest Common Subsequence (LCS)
Longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS)

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Palindromic Substrings
DP on Subsets, Strings, Grids, Trees

🧠 DP with Binary Search

Bitmask DP

💡 Phase 12: Bit Manipulation

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🧠 AND, OR, XOR, NOT

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Power of Two / Four
Count Set Bits

🧬 Single / Missing Number Problems

🎯 Subset Generation using Bits

XOR-based Tricks

🧩 Phase 13: Greedy Algorithms

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💸 Activity Selection

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Fractional Knapsack
Huffman Coding

🧾 Gas Station

🔁 Greedy + Sorting + Heap Techniques

Job Scheduling
🧪 Phase 14: Patterns & Techniques (Very Important)

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⚖️ Sliding Window

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Two Pointers
Fast & Slow Pointers

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Prefix Sum
Recursion Tree & State Diagram

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State Compression in DP
Bitmasking + DP

🧠 Binary Search on Answer

🔄 Graph + DFS/BFS Variations

Monotonic Stack & Queue

🧑‍💻 Phase 15: Interview Preparation

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🧩 300+ DSA Problems (Leetcode, GFG, InterviewBit)

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Company-specific Problems
Blind 75 / Striver’s DSA Sheet

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System Design Basics (for 10LPA+ roles)
Mock Interviews

🧠 Behavioral Questions & STAR Method

Resume Projects + DSA Involvement

🏁 Final Tips

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🧠 Focus on mastery, not speed

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Revise concepts frequently
Practice 2–3 problems/day

👨‍💻 Track progress with spreadsheets

💬 Contribute to GitHub or Blogs

Discuss DSA daily with peers

🌟 Believe in yourself — You Got This 💪

🚀 Your dream 10+ LPA job is waiting. One topic at a time!