Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0984782850 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 687 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder and CEO of CareerCup and the author of Cracking the PM Interview and Cracking the Tech Career. She has worked as a software engineer at Google, Microsoft, and Apple. . and M.S.E. Her background is in software development. She now consults with tech companies to improve their hiring process and with startups to prepare them for acquisition interviews.
Learn how to uncover the hints and hidden details in a question, discover how to break down a problem into manageable chunks, develop techniques to unstick yourself when stuck, learn (or re-learn) core computer science concepts, and practice on 189 interview questions and solutions. I've coached and interviewed hundreds of software engineers. They reflect what's truly being asked at the top companies, so that you can be as prepared as possible. I've been through this as a candidate and as an interviewer. I am a software engineer. These interview questions are real; they are not pulled out of computer science textbooks. And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. The result is this book. Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition is here to help you through this process, teaching you what you need to know and enabling you to per
If you only want to use one book, this is it David C. This is obviously the must-have book to prepare for your SWE/SDE interview. I have some small quibbles with how some of the problems were worded, but the level of difficulty is very representative of what the big tech companies are using. You might even run into these questions in your own interviews since Gayle is choosing questions that are popular among interviewers today. If you have time, you should of course pick up an algorithms textbook also. I recommend Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual and Sedgewick's Algorithms (4th Edition) textbooks. The . An excellent investment Paul Ewing I graduated with a CS degree in 2014 and recently decided to find a new job. The first 200 or so pages are a great review for someone who wants to brush up on all of the "must-know" topics such as data structures, search algorithms, algorithmic complexity, sorting, etc. There are a handful of questions specific to each of these chapters.After the chapters comes a slough of example interview questions rated as easy/medium/hard, each with hints that interviewers might provide if you were to get stuck as well as a solution.Interviewing with companies can be. "Get Your Dream Job!" according to RDT. Studying from this book helped my son through a very challenging technical interview that landed him a coveted summer internship at Facebook!
. She has worked as a software engineer at Google, Microsoft, and Apple. She holds a B.S.E. She now consults with tech companies to improve their hiring process and with startups to prepare them for acquisition interviews. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School. and M.S.E. Her background is in software development. About the Author Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the founder and CEO of CareerCup and the author of Cracking the PM Interview and Cracking the Tech Career. At Google, she interviewed hundreds of software engineers and evaluated thousands of hiring packets on the hiring committee