🧭 Roadmap to Get Into Intuit as an SDE-1

If you’re aiming for Intuit SDE-1, this roadmap will help you prepare step-by-step exactly how I did.

🧩 Step 1: Master the CS Fundamentals

💡 Super important — I had an almost 2-hour round purely on this.

Focus on:

• Operating Systems: process vs thread, CPU scheduling, deadlock, synchronization, paging, segmentation.
• Computer Networks: TCP vs UDP, 3-way handshake, DNS, OSI model, HTTP/HTTPS.
• Databases:
  • SQL queries (joins, subqueries, window functions)
  • ACID properties
  • Normalization forms (1NF, 2NF, 3NF)
  • Denormalization techniques and why/when they’re used

🧠 Resources: Prepare everything from GeeksForGeeks. Their theory + practice problems are gold for these topics.

✅ Checklist:

• [ ] OS concepts done
• [ ] CN concepts done
• [ ] DBMS (SQL + theory) done

⚙️ Step 2: Data Structures and Algorithms

This is the second most important part.

• For interviews, the questions are mostly easy-medium level.
• But for online assessments, expect medium-hard level problems.