Bro seriously, do you think they are scammers?
I saw a Reddit post yesterday.
It was from an unemployed 2024 grad.
He was calling Striver and Love Babbar
"scammers who opened a shop of DSA."
He felt betrayed because doing their sheets didn't guarantee him a FAANG job.
He was furious.
I get the frustration.
The job market is brutal.
Online Assessments are harder than ever.
It feels like companies are trying to filter you out rather than hire you.
But calling them scammers?
Honestly, that's just stupid.
A DSA sheet is a map.
It is not a helicopter ride to the summit.
Those creators did the heavy lifting of organizing the chaos of algorithms to give us direction.
They taught us the basics.
But they never promised a shortcut to a job.
Here is the hard truth nobody wants to hear:
The era of "Pattern-Matching DSA" is dead.
Companies know you’ve memorized the sheets.
They know you’ve solved the top 400 LeetCode questions.
So they don't ask them anymore.
Instead, they throw what I call "Off-Grid DSA" at you.
These are non-standard, template-shattering questions.
You can’t just copy-paste a standard BFS template and change a variable.
You have to combine multiple concepts in real-time.
Under pressure.
Without a tutorial.
How do people crack these OAs?
What’s their secret recipe?
Are they superhuman?
No.
They just realized that a DSA sheet is only Phase 1.
Once they solved their 400-500 standard questions, they did the actual work:
They competed in live LeetCode and Codeforces contests.
They sat for hours staring at a screen, failing, getting frustrated, and trying again.
They built the grit to solve things they had never seen before.
A sheet makes you a pattern matcher.
Only struggle makes you a problem solver.
Stop blaming the people who gave you the foundation.
They did their part.
Now you have to do yours.
What do you think?
Let's discuss in the comments.