Rating: ****
Tags: Lang:en
Added: July 12, 2018
Modified: November 5, 2021
Summary
Now in the 5th edition, Cracking the Coding Interview
gives you the interview preparation you need to get the top
software developer jobs. This is a deeply technical book and
focuses on the software engineering skills to ace your
interview. The book is over 500 pages and includes
150 programming interview questions and
answers , as well as other advice.
The full list of topics are as follows:
The Interview Process This section offers an
overview on questions are selected and how you will be
evaluated. What happens when you get a question wrong? When
should you start preparing, and how? What language should you
use? All these questions and more are answered.
Behind the Scenes Learn what happens behind
the scenes during your interview, how decisions really get
made, who you interview with, and what they ask you.
Companies covered include Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft,
Apple and Facebook.
Special Situations This section explains the
process for experience candidates, Program Managers, Dev
Managers, Testers / SDETs, and more. Learn what your
interviewers are looking for and how much code you need to
know.
Before the Interview In order to ace the
interview, you first need to get an interview. This section
describes what a software engineer's resume should look like
and what you should be doing well before your interview.
Behavioral Preparation Although most of a
software engineering interview will be technical, behavioral
questions matter too. This section covers how to prepare for
behavioral questions and how to give strong, structured
responses.
Technical Questions (+ 5 Algorithm
Approaches) This section covers how to prepare for
technical questions (without wasting your time) and teaches
actionable ways to solve the trickiest algorithm problems. It
also teaches you what exactly "good coding" is when it comes
to an interview.
150 Programming Questions and Answers This
section forms the bulk of the book. Each section opens with a
discussion of the core knowledge and strategies to tackle
this type of question, diving into exactly how you break down
and solve it. Topics covered include * Arrays and
Strings * Linked Lists * Stacks and Queues * Trees and Graphs
* Bit Manipulation * Brain Teasers * Mathematics and
Probability * Object-Oriented Design * Recursion and Dynamic
Programming * Sorting and Searching * Scalability and Memory
Limits * Testing * C and C++ * Java * Databases * Threads and
Locks
For the widest degree of readability, the solutions are
almost entirely written with Java (with the exception of C /
C++ questions). A link is provided with the book so that you
can download, compile, and play with the solutions
yourself.
Changes from the Fourth Edition: The fifth edition
includes over 200 pages of new content, bringing the book
from 300 pages to over 500 pages. Major revisions were done
to almost every solution, including a number of alternate
solutions added. The introductory chapters were massively
expanded, as were the opening of each of the chapters under
Technical Questions. In addition, 24 new questions were
added.
*Cracking the Coding Interview, Fifth
Edition
is the most expansive, detailed guide on how to ace your
software development / programming interviews. *