6-Month FAANG Preparation Roadmap: Java & DSA
Mastery
Month 1: Java & DSA Fundamentals
Week Focus Concepts Build/Output
Week Python/Java Syntax & Language basics, variables, loops, reading Basic algorithms
1 Debugging tracebacks
Week Collections Framework ArrayList, LinkedList, HashMap, HashSet, Data structure
2 (Java) complexity analysis implementation
Week Advanced Collections & LinkedHashMap, TreeMap, string manipulation Algorithmic practice
3 Strings
Week Sorting & Searching Binary Search, QuickSort, MergeSort Sorting utility app
4 implementation
Month 2: DSA Patterns & Spring Boot Basics
Week Focus Concepts Build/Output
Week Two Pointers & Sliding Common array/string patterns for efficiency LeetCode medium
5 Window practice
Week Recursion & Backtracking Maze solvers, permutations, subsets Backtracking algorithms
6
Week Spring Boot Basics Spring Initializr, IoC, Dependency Injection, REST API project
7 Beans
Week Spring Data JPA & Hibernate Entities, Repositories, Database connectivity DB-backed application
8
Month 3: Advanced DSA & API Development
Week Focus Concepts Build/Output
Week 9 Linked Lists & Stacks/Queues Cycle detection, undo/redo stacks Advanced DS projects
Week 10 Trees & Graphs - I BFS, DFS, Binary Tree traversals Graph algorithms
Week 11 RESTful API Design HTTP methods, status codes, request mapping Robust API service
Week 12 Security & Auth JWT, Spring Security, OAuth2 basics Secured API endpoints
Month 4: Dynamic Programming & System Design
Week Focus Concepts Build/Output
Week 13 Trees & Graphs - II Dijkstra's, Topological sort, Union-Find Complex graph problem sets
Week 14 Dynamic Programming - I Memoization, common DP patterns DP problem set
Week 15 System Design Fundamentals Scaling, Load Balancing, Caching (Redis) Architecture design
Week 16 Advanced DP & Complexity Tabulation, Space optimization Hard LeetCode problems
Month 5: Scaling, RAG & Agents
Week Focus Concepts Build/Output
Week RAG & Vector Search Vector databases (Chroma/FAISS), embedding Semantic search
17 basics system
Week Database Performance Indexing, Sharding, N+1 problem mitigation DB tuning report
18
Week Asynchronous Message Queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), Async service Async data pipeline
19 Processing
Week Frameworks & Agents LangChain/AI agents orchestration Multi-step AI workflow
20
Month 6: Capstone & Interview Blitz
Week Focus Concepts Build/Output
Week System Design - II Database consistency, CAP theorem, Distributed High-level design
21 systems practice
Week Performance Caching strategies, latency optimization Optimization report
22 Optimization
Week Interview Simulations Mock DSA/System Design interviews Behavioral (STAR) prep
23
Week Capstone Integration Final project assembly, testing, documentation Production-ready
24 system